What is it about?
This paper showcase a big data platform solution for the Namibian health sector using hand held - portable devices– mobile devices, desktops and server systems targeted to capture patients information, keep record, monitor and process patient health status. The system will be suitable for patients affected by communicable diseases like tuberculosis, HIV, Malaria and non-communicable diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular, cancer and skin disease problems. This paper oversees the architectural design of the system that is more oriented towards specifications of user requirements on usability of mobile devices and their applications, for e-health systems.
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Why is it important?
The advance of this paper is far looking, to the benefits that come along good investment in the e-health, which require a very philosophical and pragmatic systematic transformation of the hardware, software and human resources in the health sector. Namibia at the start of implanting e-healthcare system at public facilities, we need more IT trained support staff and technicians, to respond to the queries of the healthcare e-healthcare system implementing team at facility levels
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Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had long standing collaborations. The Namibian healthcare patient record passport has the following advantage: • Secure record keeping between the patients, nurses and doctors. The patient information will be available online 24/7 without being lost like the manual system do.
Valerianus Hashiyana
University of Namibia
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This page is a summary of: Integrated Big Data E-Healthcare Solutions to a Fragmented Health Information System in Namibia, January 2021, IGI Global,
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3053-5.ch015.
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