Developing a Digital Information and Consultation Platform in Zimbabwe

Chawurura, Trymore; Chikomo, Shepherd; Manhibi, Ronald; van Dijk, Janneke; van Stam, Gertjan

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-06374-9_6

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“…Many studies reveal that interoperability study efforts have been carried out but mainly with a focus on system data exchange, practitioner to practitioner interaction let leaving a gap in practitioner‐to‐patient or patient‐to‐patient interaction within an interoperable healthcare system (Bugnon et al, 2021; Chali, 2019). A study was also conducted to develop a digital information and consultation platform to strengthen HISs but the study did not scrutinize the various specific needs of both patients and practitioners interacting in an interoperable environment of healthcare (Chawurura et al, 2022). Marufu and Van der Merwe (2019) carried out a closely related study that focused on how some healthcare delivery challenges can be addressed by technology although their study specifically focused on anti‐natal care of mothers and their interaction with the healthcare system while ignoring the other healthcare patients and service provider needs for a holistic healthcare sector perspective.…”

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A TOGAF based interoperable health information system needs assessment for practitioner–patient interaction

Denhere¹,

Ruhode

Zhou

2023

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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AbstracteHealth systems have been created in most developing countries to facilitate the functioning of healthcare operations and as such various healthcare applications are existing as fragmented silo systems. Such autonomous standalone systems do not communicate through a network thereby making it a challenge to share healthcare data. Therefore, to re‐engineer health information systems (HISs) to develop interoperable adaptive enterprise architecture (EA) systems for healthcare, the study aimed to discover and capture healthcare interoperability functional imperatives through understanding the expectations of healthcare practitioners and patients on post‐development of an interoperable HIS. Therefore, the study's aim was to determine the HISs interoperability perceived functional expectations by both patients and practitioners in fulfilling their healthcare receipt and provision needs in an integrated healthcare environment, respectively. The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) was used as the main study framework to guide the classification of the expectations from the HIS by patients and practitioners deriving the needs from the four domains which are, business architecture (BA), application architecture (AA), data architecture (DA), and technical architecture. The study used interviews and questionnaire surveys to collect qualitative and quantitative data respectively. The study used purposive sampling to select interview participants. A total of 19 interviews were conducted with healthcare practitioners. Questionnaires were collected from 71 healthcare practitioners and 143 patients and analyzed quantitatively respectively to understand the most significant needs anticipated in an interoperable HIS. The research targeted age groups of at least 20 years and above. The study discovered that patients and practitioners expect the interoperable healthcare environment to support the acquisition of disease knowledge through healthcare surveillance synergies; create healthcare awareness through coordinated digital interactions; augmentation of healthcare intelligence for patient‐care through the healthcare knowledgebase; allow treatment collaboration by various healthcare practitioners in the healthcare ecosystem and mostly achieving a guaranteed healthcare system security and assurance environment.

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