Using Togaf for Building a National Implementation Strategy for E-Health Services and Technologies in Burundi

Frank Verbeke, Marc Nyssen, Sandrine Kaze, Etienne Mugisho

2015

Abstract

In order to better align existing and future ICT implementations in the health domain with the strategic options defined by the National Plan for Health Development, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Burundi initiated in 2014 the development of a national e-health enterprise architecture based on the TOGAF methodology. A first part of the development cycle consisted of a detailed analysis of regulatory documents and strategic plans related to the Burundian health system. In a second part, semi-structured interviews were organized with a representative sample of relevant MoH health structures. The study demonstrated the donor driven unequal distribution of hardware equipment over health administration components and health facilities. Internet connectivity remains problematic and few health oriented business applications found their way to the Burundian health system. Paper based instruments remain predominant in Burundi’s health administration. The study also identified a series of problems introduced by the uncoordinated development of health ICT in Burundi such as the lack of standardization, data security risks, varying data quality, inadequate ICT infrastructures, an unregulated e-health sector and insufficient human capacity. The results confirm the challenging situation of the Burundian health information system but they also expose a number of bright spots that provide hope for the future: a political will to reclaim MoH leadership in the health information management domain, the readiness to develop e-health education and training programs and the opportunity to capitalize the experiences with DHIS2 deployment, results based financing monitoring and hospital information management systems implementation.

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Verbeke F., Nyssen M., Kaze S. and Mugisho E. (2015). Using Togaf for Building a National Implementation Strategy for E-Health Services and Technologies in Burundi . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Telecommunications and Remote Sensing - Volume 1: ICTRS, ISBN 978-989-758-152-6, pages 98-103. DOI: 10.5220/0005890100980103


in Bibtex Style

@conference{ictrs15,
author={Frank Verbeke and Marc Nyssen and Sandrine Kaze and Etienne Mugisho},
title={Using Togaf for Building a National Implementation Strategy for E-Health Services and Technologies in Burundi},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Telecommunications and Remote Sensing - Volume 1: ICTRS,},
year={2015},
pages={98-103},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005890100980103},
isbn={978-989-758-152-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Telecommunications and Remote Sensing - Volume 1: ICTRS,
TI - Using Togaf for Building a National Implementation Strategy for E-Health Services and Technologies in Burundi
SN - 978-989-758-152-6
AU - Verbeke F.
AU - Nyssen M.
AU - Kaze S.
AU - Mugisho E.
PY - 2015
SP - 98
EP - 103
DO - 10.5220/0005890100980103