Investigating Barriers to Tuberculosis Evaluation in Uganda Using Geographic Information Systems

Investigating evaluation frameworks for health information systems

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Evaluation of health information systems (HIS) enables the assessment of the extent to which HIS are fulfilling their objectives in supporting the services of healthcare delivery. This paper presents an overview of evaluation in health informatics and information systems. METHODS Literature review on discourses, dimensions and methods of HIS and IS evaluation. A critica...

P105: Geographic Information Systems on Accident Risk Assessment and Management

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How to Evaluate Health Information Systems: Evaluation stages

The most important goal of health systems is improvement of quality, effectiveness and efficiency of health services. To achieve this goal, health care organizations should establish a proper structure for evaluating health information systems. Health information system evaluation is expected to identify the existing problems of the system through measuring specific indicators. The main objecti...

Using Ontologies for Integrated Geographic Information Systems

Today, there is a huge amount of data gathered about the Earth, not only from new spatial information systems, but also from new and more sophisticated data collection technologies. This scenario leads to a number of interesting research challenges, such as how to integrate geographic information of different kinds. The basic motivation of this paper is to introduce a GIS architecture that can ...

Using Geographic Information Systems for Health Research