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. 2022 Sep 26;36:111. doi: 10.47176/mjiri.36.111

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
 
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
 
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,
 
 
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
 
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
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
 
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
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.
 
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
 
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
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