Yared, Nebiyu (2016) Designing Knowledge Sharing Platform for Health Care Professionals in Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background - The need for sharing health knowledge extends to professional needs like, clinical decision making, patient and practitioner’s education, experience enhancement and up-to-date information of medicine in the technology era. In Sub-Saharan region of Africa, where there is no adequate, books and reference materials especially for those professionals working in remote areas which are located away from cities, such absence of knowledge sharing widens the differences in knowledge of clinical practice that leads to variations in training and clinical experience which contributes the poor quality of services and service outcomes, among professionals in different setting which are a major causes of various catastrophes like medical errors. In Ethiopia, there is a gap in the area of knowledge and experience sharing practices among health professional’s routine practices after the completion of university training. Taking the opportunity of the advancement to information communication technology, even in remote areas, could fill this gap hence improve the quality and outcome of medical practices. Objective- the main objective of this project is to design a user friendly and functioning knowledge sharing platform that helps health professionals to share their knowledge and experiences with each other. Methodology- An object oriented system development methodology was used to gather requirement from FMOH, FMHACA and two selected hospitals in Addis Ababa. Total number of seventeen key informants were interviewed for requirement gathering. The gathered requirements were analyzed. Based on the requirement- interaction, behavior and structure of the proposed system were modeled using unified modeling language. The platform architecture was designed and the prototype was developed using HTML, PHP, MySQL. Finally, the prototype was evaluated using user acceptance testing. Result- The designed system has major functionalities of registration of health professionals including their various work experience and educational achievements. Storing of accumulated knowledge, discussion on a specific topic, retrieval of stored knowledge, locating health professionals as well as health care institutions were also the major functionalities. The newly designed system is enabled with reliable, adequate performance, advanced security features and attractive as well as easy to use user friendly interface. Conclusion: - The developed web based system can ease the effort towards disseminating and sharing medical knowledge. So that health care professional working at different locations irrespective of time and healthcare setting could have the same and comparable understanding towards the current treatment, policies, guide lines, procedural documents and various administrative directives.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Nov 2018 10:13 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Nov 2018 10:13 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7719 |
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