Abstract The Ministry of Health in Zanzibar has embarked on Health Information System
development with the aim of streamlining health data collection, storage, analysis and …

Background and Purpose: Many countries intensify their efforts to implement and scale up
health information systems to track health service utilization and to support various aspects …

As in many developing countries, lack of reliable data and grossly inadequate appreciation
and use of available information in planning and management of health services were two …

The main aims and objectives of this study are, to explore the procedures, tools and
problems related to primary health care data collection, storage, use and information flows …

In the early 90s, the Cameroon Ministry of Health implemented a National Health Information
System (NHIS) based on a bottom-up approach of manually collecting and reporting health …

Background: Studies evaluating development of health information systems in developing
countries are limited. Most of the available studies are based on pilot projects or cross …

Abstract Information Technologies (IT) have been described as offering tremendous
opportunity to improve health services as well as in meeting broader developmental goals …

Health services are increasingly under pressure to develop information systems that are
responsive to changing health needs and appropriate to service objectives. Developing an …

Objective To describe the status of health information systems in 14 sub-Saharan African
countries of the World Health Organization African Region. Design A questionnaire-based …

Background and Purpose: Developing countries face the challenge of providing quality
healthcare to rapidly increasing populations without adequate infrastructure. Health …