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Health Policy and Planning; 6(4): 348-353
© 1991

research-article

Microcomputers and health information in Papua New Guinea: a two year follow-up evaluation*

DOUG CAMPOS-OUTCALT

University of Arizona Health Services Center USA

Dr Doug Campos-Outcalt, Department of Family and Community Medicine, The University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, 1501 N Campbell Avenue (Room 4335) Tucson, Arizona 85724, USA.

This paper discusses a computerized health information system in eleven provinces in Papua New Guinea, which was evaluated approximately two years after installation. The systems were functional and data entry and report production were current for all but three components of the system. The information produced was used for programme management, but not optimally. There had been frequent problems with hardware and continuing need for expatriates' programming skills. Suggestions for increasing the usefulness of computerized information systems are made in the paper, and advice is offered for other countries considering such systems.

*Readers may be interested to read an account of the computerization of PNGs health system, by Newbrander and Thomason in Health Policy and Planning 3: 255–59.


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