Abstract
Background: Public health system is connected to a complex dynamic of overall systematic processes of socio-political structure. Therefore, ensuring a high-quality digital healthcare system has inter-connected impacts on the war of COVID-19 prevention and beneficial for the health and welfare of people. Adopting an electronic vaccination registration system in Bangladesh has already made a huge impact in bringing the huge population under the vaccine scheme in a responsive manner. However, the country still has been struggling to achieve a systematic and technical strength due to a range of issues such as technical knowledge of healthcare professionals in providing services (for instance, e-healthcare services), use of tech tools and their application, developing and managing data, data visualization, and data availability.
Objective: The advancement of the health information system (HIS) develops the entire healthcare service in a country. This paper aims to explore how a developing country like Bangladesh has been fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and how the adoption of a robust digital health information system can impact the overall health and living conditions of the large population at stake.
Method: Based on system thinking and modeling, this study provided and described information based on existing data obtained from different inter-connecting sources with contributions to the systematic approach indicating a brief statistical data analysis.
Results: This study finds out that adopting a rigorous digital health information system during COVID-19 helped Bangladesh immensely to fight the ongoing pandemic and minimized the overall risks, but she still has a lot of scope to improve.
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Source: COVID-19 Telehealth Center Daily Report, dated 8th July 2021 Website: http://103.247.238.92/webportal/pages/; Data: DGIS website: http://103.247.238.92/webportal/pages/.
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Source: DGIS website: http://103.247.238.92/webportal/pages/).
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Jahan, S., Ali, F. (2021). Advancing Health Information System with System Thinking: Learning Challenges of E-Health in Bangladesh During COVID-19. In: Siuly, S., Wang, H., Chen, L., Guo, Y., Xing, C. (eds) Health Information Science. HIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13079. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90885-0_2
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