A Proposed Framework For Interoperability Of Electronic Health Record Systems In Ghana
| dc.contributor.author | Anthony Kobina Emil Jnr | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-05-06T13:02:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-05-06T13:02:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-06 | |
| dc.description | A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, COLLEGE OF SCIENCE IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | |
| dc.description.abstract | Electronic Health Record Systems (EHR’s) plays a major role in today’s health care delivery. Problems associated with patients’ records scattered across many different health facilities have become enormous. It has therefore become very necessary that these Electronic Health Records systemsare interoperable. This would enable health care providers to have comprehensive records about their patients in order to provide them with better care. This work proposes a framework that would enable interoperability of Electronic Health Records from different health facilities across Ghana. The framework underlines certain key requirements such as reliable internet connectivity, biometric finger print scanner and mapping of various tables of the individual databases from different EHRs to the adapter of the framework for interoperability to take place. A simulation and virtualization test about the framework was conducted based on connectivity,search for patients who has visited many facilities and those who don’t have their records in any of the facilities to examine how it would perform if used in the real world. The simulation results from the virtualized framework revealed that it does not require many resources such as high internet speed, one programming language platform for the EHRs, computer servers with high memory and CPU to allow interoperability of patients’ records. Therefore, the framework would highly help health care providers to care for their patients well, due to the vast amount of information they would have on their patients. As part of the recommendations, each EHR in the health facility needs a backup internet, electricityand standby sever for the framework in order to function effectively. Finally, further works could also be done on this study to generate trends reports | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | KNUST | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.knust.edu.gh/handle/123456789/16788 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | KNUST | |
| dc.title | A Proposed Framework For Interoperability Of Electronic Health Record Systems In Ghana | |
| dc.type | Thesis |