The Impacts of Legacy Information Systems in Reporting Routine Health Delivery Services: Case Studies from Mozambique and Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorLungo, Juma H.
dc.contributor.authorNhampossa, José L
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-01T07:10:35Z
dc.date.available2016-04-01T07:10:35Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLungo, 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1400
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectLegacy information systemsen_US
dc.subjectextraction transformation and loading systemsen_US
dc.subjectinstalled baseen_US
dc.subjecthealth information systems reformen_US
dc.titleThe Impacts of Legacy Information Systems in Reporting Routine Health Delivery Services: Case Studies from Mozambique and Tanzaniaen_US
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Revieweden_US
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