Exploring Sri Lankan Policies and Practices to Manage Health Information Disorder on Social Media: A Qualitative Approach.

Information disorder is problematic in health because it can limit effective treatment options and preventive measures. Interviews were conducted to understand the current policies and practices better. The qualitative analysis resulted in three broad thematic areas, with 115 codes and 12 code groups.

Modification and Validation of a Maturity Assessment Tool for Public Health Information System Implementations in Sri Lanka.

Introduction: Maturity models assess the snapshot view of an organization and simultaneously guides the organization to advance on a road map towards ultimate levels of maturity. The health industry has recently embraced maturity models as a tool to improve the management of health information systems. Most electronic health information systems in Sri Lanka need assessment and monitoring and can benefit vastly by adopting maturity models.

Improving the Policy Utility of Cause of Death Statistics in Sri Lanka: An Empirical Investigation of Causes of Out-of-Hospital Deaths Using Automated Verbal Autopsy Methods.

Setting public health policies and effectively monitoring the impact of health interventions requires accurate, timely and complete cause of death (CoD) data for populations. In Sri Lanka, almost half of all deaths occur outside hospitals, with questionable diagnostic accuracy, thus limiting their information content for policy. To ascertain whether SmartVA is applicable in improving the specificity of cause of death data for out-of-hospital deaths in Sri Lanka, and hence enhance the value of these routinely collected data for informing public policy debates.

Strengthening health systems through informatics capacity development among doctors in low-resource contexts: the Sri Lankan experience.

In the process of strengthening health systems, a lack of health-informatics capacity within low- and middle-income country settings is a considerable challenge. Many capacity-development initiatives on health informatics exist, most of which focus on the adoption of eHealth tools by front-line health-care workers. By contrast, there are only a few programmes that focus on empowering medical doctors in low- and middle-income countries to become champions of digital health innovation and adoption.

'Hybrid Doctors' Can Fast Track the Evolution of a Sustainable e-Health Ecosystem in Low Resource Contexts: The Sri Lankan Experience.

Although e-health is an area recognized as essential in the rapid development of healthcare systems in low resource contexts, many challenges prevent the emergence of an effective e-health ecosystem. Lack in capacity around health informatics is one of the main challenges. Based on a longitudinal case study gathering data pertaining to a master's program in biomedical informatics in Sri Lanka designed for doctors, in this paper we demonstrate that creating 'hybrid doctors' may be the way forward.

A review of telemedicine interventions in diabetes care.

We reviewed the literature concerning the use of telemedicine interventions in diabetes care. The PubMed database was searched for randomized controlled trials concerning the use of telemedicine for patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. A total of 27 articles (studies) met the inclusion criteria.

Spatiotemporal antibiotic resistance pattern monitoring using geographical information system based hierarchical cluster analysis.

Bacterial antimicrobial resistance in both the medical and agricultural fields has become a serious problem worldwide. Antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria are an increasing threat to human health, with resistance mechanisms having been described to all known antimicrobials currently available for clinical use. Monitoring the geotemporal variations of antibiotic resistance pattern is crucial factor in planning a successful therapeutic guidelines preventing further emergence of antibiotic resistance.