Geneva, Switzerland, 26-27 April 2012 Barriers & opportunities to adoption: perspectives from Bangladesh Dr Sultan Shamiul Bashar, Medical Officer Management Information System DGHS, MOHFW, Bangladesh e-mail: [email protected]Joint ITU-WHO Workshop on e-Health Standards and Interoperability (Geneva, Switzerland, 26-27 April 2012)
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Geneva, Switzerland, 26-27 April 2012
Barriers & opportunitiesto adoption:
perspectives from Bangladesh
Dr Sultan Shamiul Bashar,Medical Officer
Management Information SystemDGHS, MOHFW, Bangladesh
district hospitals (2 modules)5 yrsAll hospitals (all
modules)
Recognition
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United Nations Digital Health for Digital Development Award 2011
One of top 11 Global Innovations in 2011
The Manthan Award South Asia
National Digital Innovation Awards 2010 & 2011
Barriers & Opportunities:National Perspective
ProblemDatabases flourishing
both within & outside health sectorThey lack uniform
coding system for locations, common fields & optionsOpportunity of
interoperability is being missedHardware & network
choice also often lack standardization
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BarriersLack of knowledge among
database developers about standardization &interoperability
Lack of knowledgeable & skill staffs in public sectorPolicy makers want quick
solutionsInadequate communications
& TAs from DPsInadequacy of freely
available standards
ehealth in preliminary stages - Still have timeThe Highest level Policy Support – Digital Bangladesh 2021The country started initiative to develop Common National Coding System & Standards
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Barriers & Opportunities:National Perspective
MoH initiative to form multi-sectoral & GO-NGO-DP National HIS Steering Committee for interoperability & standardization issue
A HL7 committee exists
We prefer OpenSource SW (compatible with IMR, SDMX-HD, ICD-10, HL7 (e.g., DHIS, OpenMRS)
Hardware choice follows ministry-wide approach
Opportunities
Conclusions & Recommendations
1. Improve availability knowledge & practice of ehealth standards & inter-operability in developing countries
2. Ensure free & easy accessibility of ehealth standards
3. Improve DP coordination for ehealth
4. Increase ehealth TA for developing countries
4. Increase TA to developing countries with advancing situation of ehealth for generating global ehealth knowledge for replication
5. Consider geo-locations & common demographics to include for standards development
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