Logic Model and System Classification

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Graphic way to organize information and display thinking.

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• LOGIC MODEL

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Support design, planning, communication, evaluation, and learning.

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• LOGIC MODEL

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Often used when explaining an idea, resolving a challenge, or assessing progress.

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LOGIC MODEL

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• resources required for the system to be fully functional such as personnel, logistics, financing, ICT.

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Inputs

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tangible, countable products produced by the activities; can be measured

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Outputs

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direct products of health information system’s activities

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Outputs

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dissemination, sharing, and use of information

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Outputs

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expected changes in the population served that result from a program’s activities and fall along a continuum

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Outcomes

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type of outcome; change the knowledge, and skills; aiming to spread information

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Short-term

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type of outcome; changes in behavior or action

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Medium-term

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type of outcome; changes in condition or status of services as a whole; ex. You want to improve healthcare in general

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Long-term

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LOGIC MODELS UNDERLYING TWO SYSTEMS

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1. Electronic Medical Records System (EMR)
2. Laboratory Information System (LES)

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• Only contains a few elements or few components; its interaction is one direction and uninterrupted

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Simple

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• Contains many elements that are highly related or interconnected

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Complex

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• Interacts with its environments through receiving and giving information

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Open

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• Interaction only happens within specific systems
• Shutoff from the outside environment
• Limited only to their system
• Data confined in the data base

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Closed

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• Changes little over time

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Stable

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• Rapidly and consistently changing

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Dynamic

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• Owned by a vendor and can only be changed by vendor

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Proprietary

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• Typically, there is a license to run the system and users have to pay fees (eg. Microsoft Office, Commercial health management information systems: Bizbox)

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Proprietary

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• Free
• Not owned by a vendor and can be modified; no license and user fees (eg. Open Office)

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Public

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• Holds data for a long-time
• Long-time system

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Permanent

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• Short-time system
• Emergency shelter is an example

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Temporary

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• Refers to a process for developing any kind of software
• Undergoes peer-reviewed

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Open source

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- Public software, open-source software developed through an open-source community, or by one developer who wants to freely share the software developed

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Freeware

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- User access data through software that uses web technologies (HTTP)

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Web-based

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- Often run inside a web browser and can run locally on one machine over a local network that isn’t connected to the internet, or over the internet

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Web-based

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- Allow the healthcare worker collect multiple data points in a standard way

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Health Information System

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Examples of Popular Health Information Systems

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1. Electronic Medical Records 2. Laboratory Information Systems 3. Logistics Management Information System 4. Mobile platforms 5. District health information systems

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o Collecting data o Storing data o Retrieving data

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Activities/Processes

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Types of outcomes

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Short-term, Medium-term, Long-term