- Title
- The adoption of quality assurance in e-Health acquisition for rural hospitals in the Eastern Cape Province
- Creator
- Ruxwana, Nkqubela
- Subject
- Quality assurance -- Management
- Subject
- Hospital care -- Quality control
- Subject
- Health facilities -- Quality control
- Subject
- Health -- Computer network resources
- Subject
- Public health -- Information services
- Date Issued
- 2010
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Doctoral
- Type
- PhD
- Identifier
- vital:9731
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1514
- Identifier
- Quality assurance -- Management
- Identifier
- Hospital care -- Quality control
- Identifier
- Health facilities -- Quality control
- Identifier
- Health -- Computer network resources
- Identifier
- Public health -- Information services
- Description
- The evolution of e-health has the potential to assist in the management of scarce resources and the shortage of skills, enhance efficiencies, improve quality and increase work productivity within the healthcare sector. As a result, an increase is seen in e-health solutions developments with the aim to improve healthcare services, hospital information systems, health decision support, telemedicine and other technical systems that have the potential to reduce cost, improve quality, and enhance the accessibility and delivery of healthcare. However, unfortunately their implementation contiues to fail. Although there are several reasons for this, in this study a lack of project quality management is viewed as a key contributor to the failure of e-health solutions implementation projects in rural hospitals. This results in neglected aspects of quality assurance (QA), which forms an integral part of project quality management. The purpose of this study is to develop a Genertic Quality Assurance Model (GQAM) for the successful acquisition (i.e. development and implementation) of e-health solutions in rural hospitals in the Eastern Cape Province to enable improved quality of care and service delivery. In order to develop and test this model it was necessary to identify the QA methodologies that are currently used in rural hospitals and to evaluate their strengths and weaknesses, as well as their impact on project success. The study is divided into four phases; in each phase different study designs were followed. The study used triangulation of qualitative and some elements of quantitative research approaches, in terms of which a case study approach was adpoted to answer the research questions. This study did indeed develop a GQAM that can be used to ensure e-health solution success in rural hospitals. Furthermore, to aid in the implementation of this model, a set of QA value chain implementation guidelines were developed, as a framework, to inject the nodel into typical (SDLC) phases.
- Format
- xi, 264 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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