Information Technology in Context: Studies from the Perspective of Developing Countries by Chrisanthi Avgerou Geoff Walsham

Author:Chrisanthi Avgerou, Geoff Walsham [Chrisanthi Avgerou, Geoff Walsham]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780199253524
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

2.2 Benefits of a Distributed Healthcare Information System

The field study revealed a lot of interactions between hospitals, health centres and dispensaries. They concern the administration and information processing among these facilities, and make a distributed healthcare information system desirable. Such a system will consist of local databases at each place which are to be interconnected by a wide area communication network. The local databases, even on their own, could be of great benefit for the facilities because:

patient-related information could be found and accessed very quickly. Often, the handwritten inpatient cards of discharged patients cannot be found in time of need;

statistics demanded by the government could be derived automatically, quickly and accurately from the databases;

further statistical evaluations are desired for decision support, effective management and controlling of treatments, drug prescriptions, costs, etc.;

epidemiological interdependencies could be revealed by evaluating the medical data.

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