Healthcare data sharing is vital to the future of patient-centred care. However, it is
challenged by weaknesses inherent in the communication infrastructure that support such …

This new issue of Health Services Research adds significantly to the literature on this
important topic. It includes several high-quality studies that focus on different topics, different …

Objectives: Consumer Health Informatics (CHI) is a rapidly growing domain within the field of
biomedical and health informatics. The objective of this paper is to reflect on the past twenty …

Objective: To summarize the recent public and population health informatics literature with a
focus on the synergistic “bridging” of electronic data to benefit communities and other …

Abstract The Community Health Information Tracking System (CHITS) is an electronic health
information system developed in 2004 to address weaknesses of the current manual data …

Background Integration of community-level health data within Mali's web-based District
Health Information System (DHIS2) is underexplored. This study conducted in Mopti, Mali …

For a long time, the Malawi health sector community level was using paper-based tools.
However, the huge impact of the data generated at the lowest level of the health sector in …

Background Poor governance impedes the provision of equitable and cost–effective health
care in many low–and middle–income countries (LMICs). Although systemic problems such …

Health Management Information System (HMIS) has sub system under HIS is specially
designed to assist the management and planning of health programmes opposed to delivery …

Universal access to information for health professionals is a prerquisite for meeting the
millennium development goals and achieving health for all. However, despite the promises …