Table 2. HISs challenge and causes of failure and success extracted from selected studies .
Author | Year | Place | Type of research | Type of information system | Challenge and Causes of Failure | Causes of success |
Sahay (11) | 2001 | Developing Countries | Narrative Review | Information and Communication technologies in healthcare | Insignificant use of data Low quality of data Function of health information systems in parallel Lack of prompt reporting and effective and timely reviews Unrelated information collected to fulfill the intended purposes |
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Oak (12) | 2007 | Developing Countries | Narrative Review | Geographic InformationSystem | financial restrictions - Disparities in wages - pricypayments of usage bills and telephone time -primitive health information system payments- Inadequate resources- politics Conflicts of interest with medical profession Culture and socio-ecological factors Population inflation and social crises Enforcing the legislation convincing individuals to new technologies Availability and visibility of health research Lack of infrastructures, untrained personnel data management |
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Asangansi (13) | 2012 | Africa | case study | Health Management Information System | Inadequate logic of institutions that consider the system implementation process - Numerous errors in system implementation | Improving the performance of a health information management system - a strategy based on logic |
Al-Yaseen (14) | 2012 | Asia | case study | health information systems in private hospitals |
practitioners are not appreciating the full gains of HIS and need to be aware of such gainsabsense of acknowledgementis evidently behind the apparent deficitof developmentof HIS, |
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Cline and Luiz (15) | 2013 | Africa | case study | Hospital Information System | Computer time consuming - systems are not automated | Increase employee satisfaction, improve resource management, reduce transaction costs, Better security and privacy |
Forazin and Joia (16) | 2013 | south America | case study with a review | Health Information System | No system updates, General error, Tolerance error, duplication error, repetition error |
Ability to interact with other systems - use the experiences of developed countries |
Khalifa (17) |
2013 | Asia | Explorative method used a questionnaire | Electronic Medical Records | Lack of experience of people - technical, Financial, organizational, legal, professional and human obstacles |
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Sadoughi et al (18) | 2013 | Developing Countries | systematic review | Hospital Information System | User unsatisfaction Improper usability |
Improvements of Financial, organizational, behavioral and managerial Technical |
Aziz and Mohamadali (19) | 2015 | Asia | Review article | Hospital Information System | Provides continuing education Use of management rules |
shortage of manpower Non-sharing of information |
Ishijima et al (20) |
2015 | Africa | case study | Human Resource for Health Information System (HRHIS) and the Training Institution Information System(TIS) | Large amount of information | Improvement of system management performance – use of experts |
Othman and Hayajneh (21) |
2015 | Asia | Descriptive-cross sectional | Electronic Medical Record | Employee learning and growth, promotion Financial, customer satisfaction, quality of health information, system, internal process |
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Tilahun and Fritz (22) |
2015 | Africa | quantitative cross sectional study | Electronic Medical Record | Insufficient resources, problems in the quality of services and information and user satisfaction | Increase user satisfaction, quality of services, quality of information |
Verbeke et al (23) | 2015 | Africa | Review article | Hospital Information System | clear communication, real-time scheduling Manage ongoing changes |
Unclear goals, poor management, insufficient skills, inadequate training |
Sidek and Martins (24) | 2017 | Asia | Grounded Theory | electronic health record system | software practices overall management culture; technical glitches, consistency in data records and episodes of data miss |
usability, requirements analysis, training, change management, project organization; |
Alipour et al (25) | 2017 | Asia | cross-sectional descriptive and analytic | hospital information system | educational factors organizational factor |
behavioral factor |
Mohamadali and Azizah (26) |
2017 | Asia | Review article | hospital information system in hospitals | technological barriers ineffective design, data loss usefulness of the IT inadequate equipment, lack of internet access compatibility, readiness, availability and network stability, Content complexity in the design Data quality and data authenticity, Lack of system integration, Poor interface and less user- friendly, Time consuming Poor usability, functionality and performance Inconvenience practice |
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deRiel et al (27) | 2018 | south America | case study | electronic medical records (EMRs) | ethical, financial, functionality, organizational, political, technical and training balancing expensesin hardware and software infrastructure upkeep, user capacity and data quality control; implementinga system within the context of the larger eHealth ecosystem with a strategy for interoperability and data exchange; providing system governance and strong coaching to support local system ownership and planning for system financing to ensure sustainability |
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ChePa et al (28) | 2018 | Asia | Interventional | Information System (IS) in government hospitals |
Resistance to change conflict between users human problems (workload, readiness, priority, skill, mentality, desire, outlook, feeling, initiative, perception, commitment, awareness, personal interest, and user dependence). Support and technology Software limitation issues. |
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Kpobi et al (29) | 2018 | Asia | Individual semi-structured interviews |
mental health information system |
Expanded work load, low staff involvement and training, and lack of logistic support to maintain the system working. limited number of computers available at the hospital, absense of enthusiasm in the optimal use of the MHIS, does not meet the needs of all the different categories of users |
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Sahay et al (30) | 2018 | Asia | case studies | Universal Health Coverage (UHC) robust Civil Registra- tion and Vital Statistics (CRVS) |
low and incomplete infrastructure, insufficient and unevenly distributed resources, absense of acceptable capacity to deal with the complexity they entail | |
Ebnehoseini et al (31) | 2019 | Asia | Survey | Healthcare Information Systems | usability, information security, completeness and job relevancy operational reliability, response time, log in and support |
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Afrizal et al (32) |
2019 | Asia | qualitative study done by conducting in-depth interviews |
Primary health care information system | lack of commitment, lack of care difficult to use electronic documentation for outside activities Limited electricity the policy for the developing of information systems in the PHC is still not yet available. |
Access to internet-Computer availability- Availability of IT team/unit- Electricity power- Occasional IT use-users computer skills-Workload-Employee Turnover-Lack of training in IT Resistance of change-Budget Constraints-Security Absence of planning, project administration -Lack of financial incentives-Lack of technology support-Loss of fertility Absense of functions, not meet the practice needs-Absense of System maintenance |
Abbas and Singh (33) |
2019 | Africa | qualitative -semi structured interviews | Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) | Space and inappropriate furniture, Insufficient infrastructure, Protection of equipment, Hospital financial constraints, Lack of IT knowledge, Resistance to change, Image storage capacity, System maturity, Software and hardware encounters, Maintaining the radiology workflow, Vendor related concerns | |
Mayston et al (34) |
2020 | low and middle-income countries chronic |
Review article | mental healthcare | behavioral, technical and organizational determinants resource allocation poor quality unreliable of data incomplete management and administrative capacity to use data effectively to support decision-making lack of healthcare personnel with health informatics training deficits in IT infrastructure, absence of computers, networking equipment, internet connectivity interoperability between different EHR systems is poor challenge of mixture of the new data collection with current information systems, insufficient decentralization |
data collection is planned in association with local stakeholders, there is some sign of success completion and accuracy of data forms |