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Alvin - there isn't much literature unfortunately documenting U.S. states' experiences with governance of HIE. We were able to find this review/white paper from 2011 that has some features about state experiences and models that might be helpful. read more
I would also recommend looking at the MAPS toolkit, which although written for mHealth projects also applies to eHealth in general. This looks at what it takes to scale an mHealth project, which also implies sustainability. There are many different models out there, for sustaining technology interventions also - one ... read more
found them online here: http://www.ega.go.tz/uploads/publications/3c7dfcd85c74eb4474b6ab64e10f662f.pdf read more
Hi Alice, I work in a rural hospital in Chhattisgarh where we use Electronic health records system. The product is known by name Bahmni, it's website is http://www.bahmni.org It is developed Thoughtworks and their Indian office is in Delhi. This system is being used in several community based and a ... read more
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