Title :
Community health information system focusing Pakistan
Author :
Siddiqui, Adeel Ahmed ; Raza-us-Samad, Muhammad ; Siddiqui, Firoz Ahmed ; Shaikh, Z.A.
Author_Institution :
Hamdard Inst. of Inf. Technol., Hamdard Univ., Karachi, Pakistan
Abstract :
During past years, significant progress has been taken placed to address health care in areas of HIV / AIDS, Malaria, Dengue, Swine Flu, Cancer, Hepatitis etc. However, all working systems which were in market do not perform overall statistics about disease situation. They are neither universal nor sufficiently as broad as they should be to aware public about disease. Progress and development in health care system at national level could not meet to the requirements of population. Sometimes, progress has stopped, and other times they are in progress. The health systems can deliver impressive services equitably, efficiently and effectively in critical situations to achieve the required goals. Today, there are many health systems working in international market and they target different multi-national group of people, they incorporate attention and take initiative to providing a strengthen support to different countries. Community Health Information System is a web based application, which can improve the productivity of health care through delivering an integrated evidence-based and effective health information in real-time. System can provide useful and efficient data containing wide-range of health KPIs and health determinants - to general public, patients, health professionals and policy makers. Community Health Information System, focused on gathering data and information from all over Pakistan. This system is mainly designed for the current health situation regarding 3rd world countries, e.g.: Pakistan.
Keywords :
Internet; diseases; health care; medical information systems; HIV/AIDS; Pakistan; Web based application; cancer; community health information system; dengue; disease situation; health care system; hepatitis; integrated evidence; international market; malaria; productivity improvement; swine flu; Communities; Databases; Diseases; Geographic information systems; Google; Information systems; CHIS; Community Health Information Systems; HIS; Health Information System; SHIS; State Health Information Systems; e-Health;
Conference_Titel :
Information & Communication Technologies (ICICT), 2013 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Karachi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2621-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICICT.2013.6732779