The University of Oslo is closed. The PhD defence and trial lecture will therefore be fully digital and streamed directly using Zoom. The host of the session will moderate the technicalities while the chair of the defence will moderate the disputation.
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Trial lecture
"Designing and implementing a participatory research approach in Health Information Systems: Current status and challenges in the context of developing countries"
Main research findings
My thesis is on Design Principles for Data Use in Health Information Systems (HIS) with perspective on developing countries. It is on improving data use for informed decision in healthcare to improve health outcomes. The focus was institutionalizing and making data use routine for all businesses of the health sector. Finding was improved data use and data quality, and a sustainable HIS. The research also built on and extended the Design Theory for Dynamic Complexity in Information Infrastructures (II) proposed by Hanseth and Lyytinen to include complexities in data use in HISs. The concept of design as a problem solving tool was also used to investigate challenges with data use in HISs. Consequently the research identified two design problems for data use for healthcare and proposed four design principles each with a set of practical design rules to address them. My thesis contributes to literature on HISs with focus on developing countries. It also corroborates findings by other Information Systems (IS) scholars that data use improves data quality in HISs and this is subject to having a sustainable HIS. Hence data use, data quality, and robust HIS are interrelated and ensures sustainability of the HIS.
Contact information to Department: Mozhdeh Sheibani Harat
Adjudication committee:
- Professor Jyoti Choudrie, The University of Hertfordshire, UK
- Associate Professor Baltazar Chilundo, Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Medicine, Mozambique
- Associate Professor Jo Herstad, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Supervisors
- Professor Jørn Braa, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo
- Professor Sundeep Sahay, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo
Chair of defence
- Professor Kristin Braa, Department of Informatics, UiO