MiPrescription as the information infrastructure backbone in the Colombian healthcare system
by Sandra Agudelo-Londoño; Polyxeni Vassilakopoulou; Margunn Aanestad
International Journal of Electronic Healthcare (IJEH), Vol. 12, No. 2, 2022

Abstract: Implementing national public healthcare information infrastructures are often challenging, this is even more so in the global south. In this paper we offer an analysis of a successful development and introduction of a national healthcare information system. The MIPRES was developed by the Colombian Ministry of Health as a web application for the prescription of high-cost technologies (drugs and devices), but over time grew to become the backbone of a renewed digital healthcare information infrastructure. Through a qualitative empirical study, informed by information infrastructure theory, we document the emergence and evolution of MIPRES and analyse both the contextual conditions and strategic choices that led to its success.

Online publication date: Fri, 08-Apr-2022

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