Decline in mortality with the Belize Integrated Patient-Centred Country Wide Health Information System (BHIS) with Embedded Program Management

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 954-963

  Graven, Michael ^a,b   Allen, Peter ^a   Smith, Ian ^a   MacDonald, Noni E ^b  

^a Ministry of Health   (Belize)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

BHIS; Developing country; EHealth; Electronic clinical decision support; Electronic health records; Electronic medical record; Health information system; Health outcomes

Indexed keywords

BHIS; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT; EHEALTH; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH OUTCOMES;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; MEDICAL COMPUTING; POPULATION STATISTICS;

HEALTH CARE;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BELIZE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DAY HOSPITAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT MORTALITY; LIVE BIRTH; LUNG CIRCULATION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; ECONOMICS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BELIZE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887406363     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2013.06.003     Document Type: Article

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