ReviewHealthcare informatics research2014
Health Informatics in Developing Countries: Going beyond Pilot Practices to Sustainable Implementations: A Review of the Current Challenges.
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68 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Towards Electronic Medical Record (EMR) utilization in developing countries: a conceptual model based on systematic literature review.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2026Pooled it
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- Success criteria for electronic medical record implementations in low-resource settings: a systematic review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2015Pooled it
- Evaluation of Electronic and Paper-Pen Data Capturing Tools for Data Quality in a Public Health Survey in a Health and Demographic Surveillance Site, Ethiopia: Randomized Controlled Crossover Health Care Information Technology Evaluation.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Trial
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- Leveraging data analytics to enhance public health system performance in Peru.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Gaps and Pathways to Success in Global Health Informatics Academic Collaborations: Reflecting on Current Practices.JMIR medical informatics · 2025Article
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- Assessing Internet Quality Across Public Health Centers in Indonesia: Cross-Sectional Evaluation Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2025Article
- Principles and implementation strategies for equitable and representative academic partnerships in global health informatics research.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025Article
- Family composition, income, and healthy diet in rural China: evidence from three provinces.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Assessment of implementation challenges of electronic medical record in Yekatit 12 hospital medical college.PloS one · 2025Article
- Barriers to the implementation of large-scale electronic health record systems in primary healthcare centers: a mixed-methods study in Saudi Arabia.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Multilevel barriers to clinical and nutritional research in Latin America: a socioeconomic comparative analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- The Impact of Leadership and Management on the Implementation of Electronic Health Record Systems in the Primary Healthcare Centers.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Exploring Health Informatics in the Battle against Drug Addiction: Digital Solutions for the Rising Concern.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Review
- Empowering Healthcare through Comprehensive Informatics Education: The Status and Future of Biomedical and Health Informatics Education.Healthcare informatics research · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectivesInformation technology is an essential tool to improve patient safety and the quality of care, and to reduce healthcare costs. There is a scarcity of large sustainable implementations in developing countries. The objective of this paper is to review the challenges faced by developing countries to achieve sustainable implementations in health informatics and possible ways to address them.
methodsIn this non-systematic review of the literature, articles were searched using the keywords medical informatics, developing countries, implementation, and challenges in PubMed, LILACS, CINAHL, Scopus, and EMBASE. The authors, after reading the literature, reached a consensus to classify the challenges into six broad categories.
resultsThe authors describe the problems faced by developing countries arising from the lack of adequate infrastructure and the ways these can be bypassed; the fundamental need to develop nationwide e-Health agendas to achieve sustainable implementations; ways to overcome public uncertainty with respect to privacy and security; the difficulties shared with developed countries in achieving interoperability; the need for a trained workforce in health informatics and existing initiatives for its development; and strategies to achieve regional integration.
conclusionsCentral to the success of any implementation in health informatics is knowledge of the challenges to be faced. This is even more important in developing countries, where uncertainty and instability are common. The authors hope this article will assist policy makers, healthcare managers, and project leaders to successfully plan their implementations and make them sustainable, avoiding unexpected barriers and making better use of their resources.
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