27May 2019

IMPLEMENTATION OF HEALTH INFORMATICS IN DEVELOPING ECONOMIES: A LITERATURE REVIEW OF ORGANISATIONAL, SOCIO-CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS.

  • College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
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Health Informatics has a critical impact on the betterment of health services by enabling the physicians and hospital staff to cater an efficient and accurate service to patients while also reducing time consumption and helps documentation management of medical practitioners. In developed economic settings, health informatics systems have widely come into usage. Meanwhile, developing economies are still at the primary stages of implementation. In this paper, the authors have discussed the positive and negative effects of developing country's Organisational, Social-Cultural and Economical impact towards the success of health informatics implementation via a literature review. The study has been conducted by reviewing journal articles, and government published reports. Furthermore, the review has been conducted to reflect the possibilities and barriers of the implementation in developing economies.

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[Pasan Thilakasiri. (2019); IMPLEMENTATION OF HEALTH INFORMATICS IN DEVELOPING ECONOMIES: A LITERATURE REVIEW OF ORGANISATIONAL, SOCIO-CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 7 (May). 1233-1237] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Pasan Thilakasiri
College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/9156      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/9156

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