Achieving sustainability in health information systems: a field tested measure of country ownership
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Achieving sustainability in health information systems: a field tested measure of country ownership
BACKGROUND A country will trust, value, and use, its health information system (HIS) to the extent it has had a role in its creation and maintenance. A sense of ownership contributes in turn to the long-term sustainability of the HIS, and thus the country's ability to monitor and evaluate population health and health services. To facilitate progress toward greater ownership, we developed and te...
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عنوان ژورنال: Globalization and Health
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1744-8603
DOI: 10.1186/s12992-017-0258-0