Contextual Factors with an Impact on the Design and Management of Health Information Systems’ Interoperability
Session
Information Systems and Security
Description
Health information systems (HIS) are globally renowned for their great in-formation processing and dissemination power. Due to this they can readily avail past patient medical information across the continuum of care in order to facilitate on going treatment. However, a number of existing HIS are habitually designed as vertical silos with no interoperability onuses and there-fore, cannot exchange patient information. At the same time little knowledge is known about the intricacies that usually surround HIS’ interoperability implementations. Nevertheless, to advance understanding of the intricacies of HIS’ interoperability implementations, several researchers highly recommend thorough analysis of the systems’ context of integration. Therefore, this study employs an institutional lens perspective to investigate contextual factors with an impact on the design and management of Health-information-systems’ interoperability. Through this perspective, the following seven contextual factors were arrived at: institutional autonomism, in-tended system goals, existing health information systems, national HIS implementation guidelines, interoperability standards, policy at both local and international scenes, and resources in terms of labor and capital. A further study implication is the use of institutional lens in making sense of the systems’ context of integration, in order to discover salient factors with an impact on Health-information-systems’ interoperability designing.
Keywords:
Health Information Systems’ Interoperability, Contextual Factors, Health Information Systems’ Designing
Session Chair
Sarfraz Iqbal
Session Co-Chair
Bejtush Ademi
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-550-19-2
Location
Pristina, Kosovo
Start Date
26-10-2019 11:00 AM
End Date
26-10-2019 12:30 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2019.77
Recommended Citation
Kobusinge, Grace, "Contextual Factors with an Impact on the Design and Management of Health Information Systems’ Interoperability" (2019). UBT International Conference. 77.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2019/events/77
Contextual Factors with an Impact on the Design and Management of Health Information Systems’ Interoperability
Pristina, Kosovo
Health information systems (HIS) are globally renowned for their great in-formation processing and dissemination power. Due to this they can readily avail past patient medical information across the continuum of care in order to facilitate on going treatment. However, a number of existing HIS are habitually designed as vertical silos with no interoperability onuses and there-fore, cannot exchange patient information. At the same time little knowledge is known about the intricacies that usually surround HIS’ interoperability implementations. Nevertheless, to advance understanding of the intricacies of HIS’ interoperability implementations, several researchers highly recommend thorough analysis of the systems’ context of integration. Therefore, this study employs an institutional lens perspective to investigate contextual factors with an impact on the design and management of Health-information-systems’ interoperability. Through this perspective, the following seven contextual factors were arrived at: institutional autonomism, in-tended system goals, existing health information systems, national HIS implementation guidelines, interoperability standards, policy at both local and international scenes, and resources in terms of labor and capital. A further study implication is the use of institutional lens in making sense of the systems’ context of integration, in order to discover salient factors with an impact on Health-information-systems’ interoperability designing.