Needs for information sharing in healthcare: Case study of maternity care pathway in Pudong, Shanghai

Many benefits could be gained from regional health information sharing. It is important to identify the needs for it from different viewpoints; health managers, health providers, citizens, etc. Finnish and Chinese partners are studying health information sharing in a pilot project in Pudong, Shanghai, using maternity care pathway as a case. This paper describes the pathway using an activity-driven process modeling framework, describes the information currently shared, and identifies needs for better information sharing. The main challenge for Information Systems researchers is to combine bottom-up process modeling with top-down data set standardization.