Designing a quality Health Information System: Case study analysis in Papua New Guinea

eHEALTH is an innovative IT tool that is an enabler in the delivery of quality healthcare services especially for developing countries. There are different forms of eHealth ranging from ePrescribing, telemedicine, consumer health informatics, health knowledge management, virtual healthcare teams, mHealth, medical research using grids and healthcare information systems. Healthcare Information Systems or software solutions, particularly for patient data management, work schedule management and other administrative tasks surrounding health, is vital for the delivery of quality and effective delivery of health services. This extended abstract provides an overview of a current research study concerning the adoption of eHealth, as an innovative tool to improve the health information systems in Papua New Guinea (PNG) to meet WHO standards. The research is a policy, process and application driven approach.