Implementação do Registo Eletrónico de Saúde em África - uma Análise SWOT

• Autor(a) principal: Deusa Samuel Cabral
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/146917
• topic: Ciências médicas e da saúde; Medical and Health sciences

Technological innovation in healthcare is significantly revolutionising the way healthcare is being prevented, diagnosed and treated. Despite the many benefits highlighted, EHR implementation requires a major investment, not only in technological resources, but also in qualified human resources. The main objective of the study is to know the strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats of electronic health records in African countries. The methodology was based on conducting a systematic review for SWOT analysis. Based on the results obtained, the strong point with the greatest relevance is related to timely and rapid access to information. The most obvious weakness is the power outage followed by poor internet connection. Having previous EHR experience is the most relevant opportunity identified when using these systems. Finally, the greatest threat evidenced is the lack of prior knowledge in EHR and computer science. The systems implemented in África. the results show that the Open source EHR system as the most implemented in África in 83.3% in (10/12)c articles that characterized the types of systems implemented.