Introduction
Electronic health Information Systems (HIS) are fundamental in managing health information at all levels. This include information to facilitate and support patient care, disease surveillance, and monitoring health service delivery. Often, different applications are used and therefore it is necessary to combine data from different systems for analysis to get a complete picture of an individuals’ health or to conduct monitoring and evaluation. Ensuring that applications managing health information at the patient and/or aggregate level are interoperable (e.g., have the ability to exchange data between disparate health information systems) will facilitate complex, rigorous analyses. In addition to ensuring interoperability between systems, there is the need to safe guard meaning of data as it is combined with data from other systems.
Data exchange
Audience
- EMR application developers
- EMR application implementers
- Data managers
- Program managers
- Surveillance officers
- Public Health agencies
- Ministries of health