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This paper presents initial findings from a project in Malawi to develop and implement a simple application for making league tables in the health sector. League tables, sometimes also called scorecards, are tables that compare various entities according to several indicators, and rank them from best to worst performers. Prior work in Malawi has suggested that these tables would be useful at both...
Tooltips are regarded as beneficial methods for users to understand either a user interface element or tasks related to the system. However, little research has compared text, tables and illustrations or addressed the content of tooltips, thus this research aims to address this aspect. Through a question-suggestion approach, accompanied by interviews and questionnaires, we have looked at what actual...
Low timeliness of routine HMIS reports has been a major concern in many developing countries. The deployment and use of mobile technology in these countries offers an opportunity to use it to improve timeliness of report sent to the next level. The aim of this study is to assess the use of mobile technology for improving timeliness of reports in one district in Malawi. Data was collected using semi-structured...
Learning to use distributed business systems requires expensive and sustained training efforts. An approach to nurture local users to become mentors for colleagues has been developed as an alternative to training courses. A user level plus a mentor level distance learning course were evaluated amongst users of a health information system in Malawi. The user level course was adequate for users with...
Fragmentation has for long been a characteristic of Health Information Systems (HIS) in the developing countries with many studies expounding about a variety of drawbacks brought by the same. There have been, so far, many academic fronts through which fragmentation has been addressed and this study addresses fragmentation and eventually integration through the Vertical Health Programmes (VHP) which,...
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