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2021, Academia Letters
Shiraz E-Medical Journal
Challenges of Health Information Systems (HISs) During COVID-19 Pandemics: Lessons Learned from Teaching Hospitals in a Developing CountryBackground: Health information systems have major impacts on improving the decision-making process during pandemics. Objectives: The qualitative study explored health information systems (HISs) challenges based on HIS’s manager viewpoint during the COVID-19 outbreak. Methods: In the study, data were collected in two phases: First, in response to an official letter, all participants reported their challenges with HISs. Second, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the same participants. Results: The semantic units were extracted, collected, and coded. Eighteen HIS managers from 18 hospitals reported the challenges of HISs. The 46 HIS challenges and 24 solutions were classified into three categories: Technology, organization, and human. The technology category included three sub-categories: Multiple non-interoperable HISs, inconsistencies between reports of HISs, and lack of suitable hardware equipment. The organizational category encompassed three sub-categories: Data qualit...
Environment-behaviour proceedings journal
Impact of Using Health Information Systems (HIS) among Healthcare Professionals during Pandemic COVID-192022 •
Journal of Disaster Med Public Health
Optimizing Pandemic Preparedness and Response through Health Information Systems: Lessons Learned from Ebola to COVID-192020 •
Strengthening health systems and maintaining essential service delivery during health emergencies response is critical for early detection and diagnosis, prompt treatment, and effective control of pandemics, including the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Health information systems (HIS) developed during recent Ebola outbreaks in West Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) provided opportunities to collect, analyze, and distribute data to inform both day-to-day and long-term policy decisions on outbreak preparedness. As COVID-19 continues to sweep across the globe, HIS and related technological advancements remain vital for effective and sustained data sharing, contact tracing, mapping and monitoring, community risk sensitization and engagement, preventive education, and timely preparedness and response activities. In reviewing literature of how HIS could have further supported mitigation of these Ebola outbreaks and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, three key areas ...
Archives of Public Health
Making the case for strong health information systems during a pandemic and beyondBackground The Sars-CoV-2 pandemic exacerbates existing inequalities across health care systems globally, both within countries and between countries. It also highlights, like no other crisis before, existing weaknesses in health information systems (HIS). This article summarizes these key challenges for HIS in times of a pandemic and beyond, with a focus on European countries. It builds on the experiences of a large consortium representing HIS experts in key positions in national public health or similar institutes across Europe. Methods Data were collected in bi-weekly conference calls organized by the InfAct project between February and June 2020. Emerging themes were clustered and analysed around a WHO framework for health information systems (HIS). We analyse strengths of HIS at two levels: (i) dealing with health information directly, and (ii) dealing with other parts of information systems that allow for a holistic assessment of the pandemic (including health-related aspects)...
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is having a tremendous impact on the business organizations, governments and people around the Globe. No matter if it is a public, or private organization, the leaders and management have changed their approaches, standard operations, the way they communicate, processes and procedures. In this paper is analyzed the impact of Data Analytics on two main management pillars and more specifically: Business Operations and Human Resources Management; more precisely, how they are impacted and changed in the pandemics. We analyzed how Global IT Companies are reacting and using analytics as a tool that helps them in the day to day operations, representing some used models and patterns.
Journal of ICT Research and Applications
Review on the Use of ICT Driven Solutions Towards Managing Global PandemicsA pandemic is a contagious disease outbreak that happens over a large geographic area and affects a great portion of the population while new pathogens appear for which people have less immunity and no vaccines are available. The disease can spread from person to person in a very short time. Health workers are at greater risk of infection because of patients who are carriers. In the 21st century,where everyone is connected through digital technologies, information and communication technology (ICT) plays a critical role in improving healthcare for individuals and larger communities. ICT can be divided into a wide variety of application domains that signify its importance as a major technological paradigm. It is currently drawing large attention because of its potential to alleviate the burden on healthcare systems caused by the rise in chronic diseases, aging populations and pandemic situations. This study surveyed substantial knowledge on how effective ICT healthcare solutions can be used towards managing global pandemics. In order to make it more comprehensive, we also present a four-phase strategic framework that can be deployed to alleviate the strain on healthcare resources during a pandemic, which was derived from the reviewed literature. Further, we also discuss how ICT technologies can be used towards managing pandemic situations chronographically during the transformation from a simple disease outbreak into a global pandemic.
Frontiers in Public Health
COVID-19 Highlights a Critical Need for Efficient Health Information Systems for Managing Epidemics of Emerging Infectious Diseases2021 •
Information Systems and e-Business Management
An informatics framework for public health information systems: a case study on how an informatics structure for integrated information systems provides benefit in supporting a statewide response to a public health emergency2014 •
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has become a global concern. Iran is one of the countries affected most by the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. As a result, the use of information technology (IT) has a variety of applications for pandemic management. The purpose of this study was to develop a conceptual framework for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic via IT management, based on extensive literature review and expert knowledge. Methods The conceptual framework is developed in three stages: (1) a literature review to gather practical experience with IT applications for managing the COVID-19 pandemic, (2) a study of Iranian documents and papers that present Iran’s practical experience with COVID-19, and (3) developing a conceptual framework based on the previous steps and validating it through a Delphi approach in two rounds, and by 13 experts. Results The proposed conceptual framework demonstrates that during pandemics, 22 different types of technologies were used for various purposes, includi...
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