Olav Poppe

• Poppe, Olav; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Braa, Jørn (2021). WHO digital health packages for disseminating data standards and data use practices. International Journal of Medical Informatics. ISSN 1386-5056. 149. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104422. Full text in Research Archive
• Poppe, Olav; Saugene, Zeferino; Kossi, Edem Kwame; Braa, Jørn & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2020). Rapid Systems Response to COVID-19: Standards Disseminated as Digital Health Packages. In Bandi, Rajendra; Klein, Stefan; Madon, Shirin; Raghavendra, Ranjini & Monteiro, Eric (Ed.), IFIPJWC: IFIP Joint Working Conference on the Future of Digital Work: The Challenge of Inequality. Springer. ISSN 9783030646967. p. 237–250. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-64697-4_18. Full text in Research Archive
• Poppe, Olav; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Braa, Jørn (2019). Strategies for standardizing health information analysis: flexible standards revisited. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. ISSN 1868-4238. 551, p. 260–271. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-18400-1_21. Full text in Research Archive
• Poppe, Olav; Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Nielsen, Petter & Sanner, Terje Aksel (2017). Standardising Through Software. IRIS Selected Papers of the Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia. ISSN 1891-9863. 8, p. 111–119. Full text in Research Archive
• Jolliffe, Bo; Poppe, Olav; Adaletey, Denis Leonard & Braa, Jørn (2015). Models for Online Computing in Developing Countries: Issues and Deliberations. Information Technology for Development. ISSN 0268-1102. 21(1), p. 151–161. doi: 10.1080/02681102.2014.902354. Full text in Research Archive
• Poppe, Olav; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Nielsen, Petter (2014). Architecting in large and complex information infrastructures. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. ISSN 1865-1348. 186, p. 90–104. Full text in Research Archive
• Poppe, Olav; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Nielsen, Petter (2014). Architecting in Large and Complex Information Infrastructures. In Commisso, Trine Hald; Nørbjerg, Jacob & Pries-Heje, Jan (Ed.), Nordic Contributions in IS Research : 5th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2014, Ringsted, Denmark, August 10-13, 2014 : Proceedings. Springer. ISSN 9783319095455. p. 90–104. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-09546-2_7. Full text in Research Archive
• Poppe, Olav; Jolliffe, Bob; Adaletey, Denis Leonard; Braa, Jørn & Manya, Ayub Shisia (2013). Cloud Computing for Health Information in Africa? Comparing the Case of Ghana to Kenya. Journal of Health Informatics in Africa. ISSN 2197-6902. 1. doi: 10.12856/JHIA-2013-v1-i1-45. Full text in Research Archive
• Adaletey, Denis Leonard; Poppe, Olav & Braa, Jørn (2013). Cloud Computing for Development – Improving the Health Information System in Ghana. In Cunningham, Paul & Cunningham, Miriam (Ed.), IST-Africa 2013 Conference Proceedings. International Information Management Corporation Limited. ISSN 9781905824380. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The health sector in many developing countries is undergoing restructuring to meet set goals, especially the health related Millennium Development Goals. To be able to monitor the performance of the health sector, an efficient Health Information System (HIS) is essential. This paper describes the process of implementing an online data warehouse based on the open source District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2) in Ghana, integrating existing vertical reporting systems run by various health programmes. We discuss how an online deployment has solved many of the challenges facing the previous HIS in Ghana, and how it is an example of how cloud computing can be leverage to great effect in developing countries.

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• Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Poppe, Olav (2015). FEDERATED ARCHITECTING IN WEST AFRICA. Full text in Research Archive
• Poppe, Olav; Nielsen, Petter & Braa, Jørn Anders (2021). Digital Platforms for Standardisation in Global Health: The Case of the Digital Health Packages. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This thesis is a study of standardisation within the global health field, investigating the potential role of digital platforms in facilitating such standardisation. It describes and analyses an e$ort of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to disseminate its standards and guidelines on health information to countries by embedding them in digital health packages, which can be implemented in a widely used digital platform. Part of the mandate of WHO is to provide standards and guidance on health information management and use for its 194 member states. However, disseminating these standards and guidance to countries and ensuring their implementation in national health information systems has proven challenging in practice. This points to broader themes discussed in the literature on standards and standardisation, such as barriers to the adoption of standards, tensions arising when implementing global, universal standards in diverse local contexts, and the #exibility of standards. Using the WHO-led digital health packages initiative as a case, the thesis discusses these challenges guided by the research question: What is the potential of digital platforms to support standardisation in global health? The empirical data presented in this thesis was collected through an action research approach. This included involvement in activities related to the implementation of health information systems based on digital platform technolo!y in several countries in West Africa, and in the WHO-led standardisation initiative at the global level. This two-levelled research design allowed a study of the standardisation initiative from the perspective of both standards developers and standards adopters. Analysis of the empirical data is guided by organising vision theory, developed originally to explain the adoption of IT innovations in organisations. Organising vision theory provides concepts that help analyse how di$erent stakeholders, with a shared vision of disseminating global health standards, could be coordinated and mobilised in support of the digital health packages initiative. The findings in this thesis indicate that characteristics of digital platforms can facilitate and support standardisation in global health. These digital platform characteristics include a modular architecture that can be extended with platform complements, the ability to facilitate transactions between groups of users, and an ecosystem of actors around the platform. The thesis, in itself and through the six research papers that constitute a major component of it, includes theoretical, methodological, empirical and practical contributions. Theoretically, it makes the potentially fruitful connection between digital platforms and standardisation, and discusses how di$erent digital platform characteristics can serve to support standardisation in global health. Methodologically, the thesis presents a novel research design for studying large-scale digital phenomenon, based on doing in-depth, qualitative research at two levels, e.g. the national and the global. Empirically, it constitutes a longitudinal digital platform study, of which there are relatively few. Finally, for practitioners, it o$ers concrete advice on how digital platforms can be leveraged in support of standardisation within global health.

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