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Modeling Technology Transfer in Health Information Systems: Learning From the Experience of Chad

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Anne-Marie Foltz
Anne-Marie Foltz
Affiliation:
Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
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Abstract

Health information systems are complex combinations of methods of organization and computer technologies. They are idiosyncratic to each country. Chad’s design of a national information system followed a process that can serve as a model for sustainable technology transfer—using consensual decision making and reinforcing administrative reforms while providing strong Ministry leadership and using technical assistance.

Type
Special Section: Industry and the Generation of Technology, Part II
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , Summer 1993 , pp. 346 - 359
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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