The Impacts of Legacy Information Systems in Reporting Routine Health Delivery Services: Case Studies from Mozambique and Tanzania
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2004
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The awareness of the importance of effective health information systems (HIS)
has increased substantially and is reflected by many ongoing efforts of HISs
reform in many developing countries. However, the one mostly mentioned
obstacle for health information systems reform is Legacy Information Systems (LIS).
The impacts of LIS in the reporting of routine health delivery services were
studied in a participatory action research using case study sites in Tanzania and
Mozambique. LIS impacts are on the process of introducing changes (reforms) on
the HIS, and on everyday functioning of the HIS. LIS were determined to cause
poor quality of health data, incomplete reporting of health data, and burden to
health workers. The study recommends the Ministries of Health to relinquish the
LIS. A demonstration on extracting and loading of locked health data on LIS to
new health information software using extraction transformation and loading
(ETL) software was performed.
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Legacy information systems, extraction transformation and loading systems, installed base, health information systems reform
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Lungo, J.H. and Nhampossa, J.L., 2004. The Impacts of Legacy Information Systems in Reporting Routine Health Delivery Services: Case Studies from Mozambique and Tanzania. In International ICT Workshop 2004.