Work on the development of a multi-source information system centred on the patient has been conducted to collect relevant information for cancer case registration according to international rules [ 17].
Likewise, record keeping and health information systems at the health centres were poor and could affect the study findings.
On the other hand, the piloted Health Connect project was perceived as an opportunity to transfer patient information across different information systems used in health centres, to accommodate the high mobility of Indigenous populations.
During the data collection at the health centres we also identified the problem of information capturing, storage and management and so it will be important that training in management information systems for all health centres to enable them produce timely and reliable information be instituted.
His staff thought that the measurements that the anaesthetist, who was working on the centre's information systems, had made using the checklist were 'boring' and irrelevant to just-in-time management.
These data stem from primary care centres, hospital information systems, clinical trials' cohorts, and administrative platforms.
Data on personnel, material costs, diet-related costs, accommodation and overheads will be accessed using centre registries and information systems, and extra information is collected through regular observation and self-registration of professional activities.
Computerised information systems were installed in 11 health centres, with four different clinical information software systems.
Multi-professional health centres with shared information systems could provide opportunities for collaborative research in primary care networks [ 17].
* Aboriginal people inhabiting the north-eastern Arnhem Land of Australia Computerised information systems were installed in 11 health centres, with four different clinical information software systems (see Table 11).
