See the course schedule for a more detailed outline of which readings are relevant to which lecture / course theme. Please familiarize yourself with the course readings before the actual lectures.
Books (Priority reading - selected chapters)
Braa, Jørn, and Sundeep Sahay. Integrated Health Information Architecture: Power to the Users : Design, Development and Use, 2012. (Chapter 1 - 3)
Heywood, A., and J. Rohde. Using Information for Action: A Manual for Health Workers at Facility Level, 2000. (Chapter 2 - 7)
Guideline Documents (Supplementary reading)
Health Metrics Network. “Framework and Standards for Country Health Information Systems (2nd Ed.).” Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 2008.
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), ed. “Making Data Meaningful Part 2: A Guide to Presenting Statistics.” United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), 2009.
Articles (Priority reading)
AbouZahr, C., and T. Boerma. “Health Information Systems: The Foundations of Public Health.” Bulletin of the World Health Organization 83 (2005): 578–83.
Basilico, Matthew, Jonathan Weigel, Anjali Motgi, Jacob Bor, and Salmaan Keshavjee. “Health for All? Competing Theories and Geopolitics.” In Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction, 74–110, 2013.
Braa, J., Heywood, A., & Sahay, S. (2012). Improving quality and use of data through data-use workshops: Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 90(5), 379–384.
Garrib, A., N. Stoops, A. McKenzie, L. Dlamini, T. Govender, J. Rohde, and K. Herbst. “An Evaluation of the District Health Information System in Rural South Africa.” South African Medical Journal 98, no. 7 (2008): 549.
Heerden, Alastair van, Mark Tomlinson, and Leslie Swartz. “Point of Care in Your Pocket: A Research Agenda for the Field of M-Health.” Bulletin of the World Health Organization 90, no. 5 (2012): 393–94.
Kossi, Edem Kwame, Johan Ivar Sæbø, Jørn Braa, Mohamed Mumeneeh Jalloh, and Ayub Manya. “Developing Decentralised Health Information Systems in Developing Countries –cases from Sierra Leone and Kenya.” The Journal of Community Informatics 9, no. 2 (November 28, 2012). http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/861.
Labrique, Alain, Lavanya Vasudevan, Larry William Chang, and Garrett Mehl. “H_pe for mHealth: More ‘y’ or ‘o’ on the Horizon?” International Journal of Medical Informatics 82, no. 5 (2013): 467–69.
Lippeveld, T. “Routine Health Information Systems: The Glue of a Unified Health System.” In Keynote Address at the Workshop on Issues and Innovation in Routine Health Information in Developing Countries, Potomac, March, 14–16, 2001.
Manya, Ayub, Jørn Braa, Lars Øverland, Ola Titlestad, Jeremiah Mumo, and Charles Nzioka. “National Roll Out of District Health Information Software (DHIS 2) in Kenya, 2011–Central Server and Cloud Based Infrastructure.” In IST-Africa 2012 Conference Proceedings, 2012.
Mate, Kedar S., Brandon Bennett, Wendy Mphatswe, Pierre Barker, and Nigel Rollins. “Challenges for Routine Health System Data Management in a Large Public Programme to Prevent Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission in South Africa.” PloS One 4, no. 5 (2009): e5483.
Raghupathi, W., & Raghupathi, V. (2014). Big data analytics in healthcare: promise and potential. Health Information Science and Systems, 2(1), 3.
Stansfield, S., N. Orobaton, D. Lubinski, S. Uggowitzer, and H. Mwanyika. “The Case for a National Health Information System Architecture; a Missing Link to Guiding National Development and Implementation.” Making the eHealth Connection, Bellagio, 2008.
Sæbø, J. I., E. K. Kossi, O. H. Titlestad, R. R. Tohouri, and J. Braa. “Comparing Strategies to Integrate Health Information Systems Following a Data Warehouse Approach in Four Countries.” Information Technology for Development 17, no. 1 (2011): 42–60.