Towards Healthcare Data Sharing: An e-Health Integration Effort in Indonesian District

The purpose of this work was to provide an integration scheme of healthcare systems, connecting the public health centres to the general hospital and provide the required data aggregation to entitled government institutions. A middle-ware-based system has been developed using a rapid application development model and tested using several scenarios. The results have shown that the developed system could deliver the expected process while the newly provided executive dashboard system provided insight into the processed data. The developed web services are ready to be used in further data exchanges, but several steps must be ascertained beforehand. Problems, challenges, and opportunities regarding the future of data sharing among institutions in Indonesia were also discussed. The services that have been developed in this work shows a promising implementation of an integrated system, especially in healthcare, as part of the implementation of the broader e-Gov-ernance enactment. The emphasis on the role of patients in the built system becomes an essential key for further development.