BACKGROUND Reliable and timely information on disease-specific treatment burdens within a health system is critical for the planning and monitoring of service provision. Health management information systems (HMIS) exist to address this need at national scales across Africa but are failing to deliver adequate data because of widespread underreporting by health facilities. Faced with this inadeq...

Land Information Management Systems (LIM systems) for many African countries should be designed without a cadastral layer, as most countries have only about 1 percent cadastral coverage and the average GDP per capita of the continent is USD665. Joining LIM systems with cadastral systems has prevented the technical innovation required for the development of practical land information systems for...

As new computer technologies emerge for the design and development of product platforms, applied theories of innovation diffusion and technology acceptance will become increasingly important for securing user cooperation with an information management system for product families. Incorporation of human factors therein will shorten the time required to reach return on investment and increase the...

conclusions it is suggested that the steward of health in iran, the ministry of health, develops an appropriate infrastructure and finally puts a high priority on the implementation of the health information management system for elderly health sector in iran. background there are increasing change and development of information in healthcare systems. given the increase in aging population, man...

This paper introduces the importance of electrical utilities in our life, and the challenges the utilities are facing. It also discusses the nature of the Transmission and Distribution losses and details the steps that can be taken to reduce these very critical losses. It also explains how Management Information Systems (MIS) could be useful in tackling these problems. The last section gives a ...