Johan Ivar Sæbø

• Meijerink, Hinta; Shelil, Mohamed; Jani-Bølstad, Jagrati; Dvergsdal, Evy Therese; Madslien, Elisabeth Henie & Wilberg, Madeleine [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2024). Does integration with national registers improve the data completeness of local COVID-19 contact tracing tools? A register-based study in Norway, May 2020 - September 2021. BMC Health Services Research. ISSN 1472-6963. 24(1), p. 1–6. doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-10540-5.
• Gundersen, Ragnhild Bassøe; Nicholson, Brian; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Nielsen, Petter (2023). The Interplay Between Communitas and Anti-structure in Liminal Innovation, Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems ECIS 2023. Association for Information Systems (AIS). ISSN 978-1-958200-08-7.
• Müller, Sune Dueholm & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2023). The ‘hijacking’ of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems: Implications for the information systems community. Information Systems Journal. ISSN 1350-1917. doi: 10.1111/isj.12481.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Büttner, Andre; Gruschka, Nils; Jolliffe, Bob & McGee, Austin (2022). Where There is No CISO. In Zheng, Y.; Abbott, P. & Robles-Flores, J. A. (Ed.), Freedom and Social Inclusion in a Connected World 17th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development. Springer. ISSN 978-3-031-19429-0. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-19429-0_12.
• Kinkade, Carl; Russpatrick, Scott McKee; Potter, Rebecca; Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Sloan, Michelle & Odongo, George [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2022). Extending and Strengthening Routine DHIS2 Surveillance Systems for COVID-19 Responses in Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, and Uganda. Emerging Infectious Diseases. ISSN 1080-6040. 28(13), p. S42–S48. doi: 10.3201/EID2813.220711.
• Nicholson, Brian; Nielsen, Petter; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Tavares, Ana Paula (2022). Digital Public Goods for Development: A Conspectus and Research Agenda. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. ISSN 1868-4238. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-19429-0_27.
• Byrne, Elaine & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2022). Routine use of DHIS2 data: a scoping review. BMC Health Services Research. ISSN 1472-6963. 22(1). doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-08598-8. Full text in Research Archive
• Nicholson, Brian; Nielsen, Petter; Sahay, Sundeep & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2022). Digital public goods platforms for development: The challenge of scaling. The Information Society. ISSN 0197-2243. 38(5), p. 364–376. doi: 10.1080/01972243.2022.2105999. Full text in Research Archive
• Chrysantina, Aprisa; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Kaasbøll, Jens Johan (2022). Introducing online training for health staff: An institutional perspective. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. ISSN 1681-4835. doi: 10.1002/isd2.12233. Full text in Research Archive
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Nicholson, Brian; Nielsen, Petter & Sahay, Sundeep (2021). DIGITAL GLOBAL PUBLIC GOODS. In Masiero, Silvia & Nielsen, Petter (Ed.), IFIP 9.4 2021 – 1st Virtual Conference Conference Theme: Resilient ICT4D. Proceedings. Universitetet i Oslo. ISSN 978-82-7368-462-2. p. 890–900.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Nicholsan, Brian; Nielsen, Petter & Sahay, Sundeep (2021). Digital Public Goods Platforms for Development: The Challenge of Scaling. UiO web.
• Gundersen, Ragnhild Bassøe; Utvik, Vetle Alvenes; Thorseng, Anne Asmyr; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Nielsen, Petter (2021). AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL TRANSFOR-MATION OF COVID-19 CONTACT TRACING DURING A PANDEMIC. IRIS Selected Papers of the Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia. ISSN 1891-9863. 12(4).
• Shamba, Donat; Day, Louise T; Bin Zaman, Sojib; Sunny, Avinash; Tarimo, Menna & Peven, Kimberly [Show all 22 contributors for this article] (2021). Barriers and enablers to routine register data collection for newborns and mothers: EN-BIRTH multi-country validation study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. ISSN 1471-2393. 21. doi: 10.1186/s12884-020-03517-3.
• 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.
• 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 978-3-030-64696-7. p. 237–250. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-64697-4_18.
• Day, Louise Tina; Rahman, Qazi Sadeq-Ur; Rahman, Ahmed Ehsanur; Salim, Nahya; Ashish, KC & Ruysen, Harriet [Show all 37 contributors for this article] (2020). Assessment of the validity of the measurement of newborn and maternal health-care coverage in hospitals (EN-BIRTH): an observational study. The Lancet Global Health. ISSN 2572-116X. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30504-0.
• Gundersen, Ragnhild Bassøe; Dynestøl, Emilie Bauck; Nielsen, Petter; Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Thorseng, Anne Asmyr & Ulshagen, Andrea (2020). Digital Transformation under a pandemic: A case study of Covid-19 contact tracing in Norway. NOKOBIT: Norsk konferanse for organisasjoners bruk av informasjonsteknologi. ISSN 1892-0748. 28(1). Full text in Research Archive
• Russpatrick, Scott McKee; Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Romedenne, Magali & Dubent, Leslie (2019). The state of community health information systems in West and Central Africa. Journal of Global Health Reports (JoGHR). ISSN 2399-1623. 3. doi: 10.29392/joghr.3.e2019047.
• Day, Louise Tina; Ruysen, Harriet; Gordeev, Vladimir S; Gore-Langton, Georgia R; Boggs, Dorothy & Cousens, Simon [Show all 61 contributors for this article] (2019). "Every Newborn-BIRTH" protocol: Observational study validating indicators for coverage and quality of maternal and newborn health care in Bangladesh, Nepal and Tanzania. Journal of Global Health. ISSN 2047-2978. 9(1), p. 1–19. doi: 10.7189/jogh.09.010902.
• Adu-Gyamfi, Eric; Nielsen, Petter & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2019). The dynamics of a global health information systems research and implementation project. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings. ISSN 1650-3686. p. 73–79.
• Chrysantina, Aprisa & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2019). Assessing user-designed dashboards: a case for developing data visualization competency. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. ISSN 1868-4238. 551, p. 448–459. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-18400-1_37.
• 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.
• Nguyen, Simon Pettersen; Nielsen, Petter & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2019). Global Standards and Local Development. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). ISSN 1865-0929. 933, p. 141–155. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-11235-6_10.
• Adu-Gyamfi, Eric; Nielsen, Petter; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Saugene, Zeferino (2019). Scaling Across Functional Domains: A Case of Implementing an Electronic HIV Patient Information System in Sierra Leone. In Nielsen, Petter & Kimaro, Honest C. (Ed.), Information and Communication Technologies for Development: Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D. 15th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 1–3, 2019, Proceedings, Part I. Springer Nature. ISSN 9783030183998. p. 331–342. doi: %2010.1007/978-3-030-18400-1_27.
• Nicholson, Brian; Nielsen, Petter; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Sahay, Sundeep (2019). Exploring Tensions of Global Public Good Platforms for Development: The Case of DHIS2. In Nielsen, Petter & Kimaro, Honest C. (Ed.), Information and Communication Technologies for Development: Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D. 15th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 1–3, 2019, Proceedings, Part I. Springer Nature. ISSN 9783030183998. p. 207–217. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-18400-1_17.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Moyo, Christon M. & Nielsen, Petter (2018). Promoting transparency and accountability with district league tables in Sierra Leone and Malawi. Health Policy and Technology. ISSN 2211-8837. 7(1), p. 35–43. doi: 10.1016/j.hlpt.2018.01.003.
• Asah, Flora Nah & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2017). Analysing inhibitors of integrating and routinizing Health Information Systems for Universal Health Coverage: the case of Cameroon. Journal of Health Informatics in Africa. ISSN 2197-6902.
• Namatovu, Esther; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Kaasbøll, Jens Johan (2017). Mobilities of the Community Health Work Practice: Mobile Health System Mediated Work. Journal of Community Informatics. ISSN 1712-4441. 13(3), p. 54–74. Show summary

  New technologies have been implicated in various forms of mobilities creating new realities and questioning normative categories and the order in contexts where they are applied. Our study argues that through understanding technology mobilities, we uniquely bring to light new forms of social phenomena that materialize with interactions between mHealth systems and the work of Community Health workers in Malawi. Through the analysis, we also elaborate the role of both human and non-human actants in work transformations. This is important in managing technological innovations and theorizing electronically supported work practices.

• 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.
• Roland, Lars Kristian; Sanner, Terje Aksel; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Monteiro, Eric (2017). P for platform: Architectures of large-scale participatory design. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS). ISSN 0905-0167. 29(2), p. 3–34. Full text in Research Archive
• Nguyen, Simon Pettersen; Nielsen, Petter & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2017). The Role of Global Standardization Communities in Shaping National Health Information Architectures. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. ISSN 1868-4238. 504, p. 93–103. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-59111-7_9.
• Bergum, Bjørn-Ingar; Nielsen, Petter & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2017). Patchworks of Logistics Management Information Systems: Challenges or Solutions for Developing Countries? IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. ISSN 1868-4238. 504, p. 47–58. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-59111-7_5.
• Asah, Flora Nah; Nielsen, Petter & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2017). Challenges for Health Indicators in Developing Countries: Misconceptions and Lack of Population Data. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. ISSN 1868-4238. 504, p. 593–604. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-59111-7_48.
• Moyo, Christon M.; Kaasbøll, Jens Johan; Nielsen, Petter & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2016). The information transparency effects of introducing league tables in the health system in Malawi. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. ISSN 1681-4835. 75:2, p. 1–16. doi: 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2016.tb00544.x.
• Nielsen, Petter & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2016). Three Strategies for Functional Architecting: Cases from the Health Systems of Developing Countries. Information Technology for Development. ISSN 0268-1102. 22(1), p. 134–151. doi: 10.1080/02681102.2015.1026304.
• Moyo, Christon M.; Frøyen, Marte Hesvik; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Kaasbøll, Jens (2015). Using Performance League Tables to Promote Acccounability and Feedback in Health management in Malawi. In Nielsen, Petter (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries. Universitetet i Oslo. ISSN 978-82-7368-465-3. p. 265–276. Show summary

  One of the challenges of health management in developing countries is the existence of weak accountability and feedback practices. This paper assesses the conditions for introducing performance league tables for promoting accountability and feedback in health management. A qualitative approach with an interpretive perspective has been adopted in this study. Data was collected using interviews, prototyping, observations and document analysis. The assessment revealed the importance of having a participatory process in the design and implementation of league tables used within the existing management practices. This ensures flexibility in the use of performance league tables. In addition, appropriate technology should facilitate availability and accessibility of data to stakeholders so that they manipulate it to suit their needs. Collaboration among stakeholders is a critical condition for ensuring access to additional resources for the implementation of performance league tables. A decentralized approach to league table definition allows districts to choose and weight indicators according to their own goals. Relevance, local choices through a participatory bottom up design process leads to broader acceptance and use of the performance league tables.

• 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.
• Aanestad, Margunn; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Grünfeld, Thomas Berthold (2014). TOWARDS A PROCESSUAL PERSPECTIVE ON ARCHITECTURE - Building an Information Infrastructure for Personalized Medicine. NOKOBIT: Norsk konferanse for organisasjoners bruk av informasjonsteknologi. ISSN 1892-0748. 22(1).
• Poppe, Olav; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Nielsen, Petter (2014). Architecting in Large and Complex Information Infrastructures. In Hald Commisso, Trine; 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 978-3-319-09545-5. p. 90–104. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-09546-2_7.
• Sanner, Terje Aksel & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2014). Paying Per Diems for ICT4D Project Participation: A Sustainability Challenge. Information Technologies & International Development. ISSN 1544-7529. 10(2), p. 33–47.
• Sahay, Sundeep; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Braa, Jørn (2013). Scaling of HIS in a global context: Same, same, but different. Information and organization. ISSN 1471-7727. 23(4), p. 294–323. doi: 10.1016/j.infoandorg.2013.08.002.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Kossi, Edem Kwame; Titlestad, Ola Hodne; Tohouri, Romain Rolland Francis & Braa, Jørn (2011). Comparing strategies to integrate health information systems following a data warehouse approach in four countries. Information Technology for Development. ISSN 0268-1102. 17(1), p. 42–60. doi: 10.1080/02681102.2010.511702.
• Sahay, Sundeep; Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Mekonnen, Selamawit & Gizaw, Abyot Asalefew (2010). Interplay of Institutional Logics and Implications for Deinstitutionalization: Case Study of HMIS Implementation in Tajikistan. Information Technologies & International Development. ISSN 1544-7529. 6(3), p. 19–32.
• Damtew, Zufan Abera; Miscione, Gianluca; Mekonnen, Selamawit; Østmo, Elise; Staring, Knut & Sæbø, Johan Ivar [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2010). Globetrotting health information systems. Journal of Health Informatics in Developing Countries. ISSN 1178-4407. 4(1), p. 27–38. Show summary

  Cases from an international network, active in health information systems development and implementation in “developing countries”, are presented in order to show a variety of interplays between the same IT agency and varying local settings. By using the same institutional lens, a theoretically informed view of empirical data is provided. Trajectories of implementation in Ethiopia, Botswana, and India present two different, and often diverging, levels of contextualization of the IT artefact: in the local context and in the (possibly emerging) organizational field of health information systems in “developing countries”. By discussing the emergence of an organizational field of health information systems across “developing countries”, but so far not showing many traces of isomorphism, this paper aims at enlarging the empirical basis of what is considered relevant in information systems research.

• Kossi, Edem Kwame; Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Titlestad, Ola Hodne; Tohouri, Romain Rolland Francis & Braa, Jørn (2009). Comparing Strategies to Integrate Health Information Systems Following a Data Warehouse Approach in Four Countries. In Byrne, Elaine; Nicholson, Brian & Salem, Fadi (Ed.), Assessing the Contribution of ICT to Development Goals. Dubai School of Government and International Federation for Information Processing. ISSN 978-0-903808-05-7.

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• Gundersen, Ragnhild Bassøe; Shelil, Mohamed Elsayed Abdelgawad; Iversen, Bjørn Gunnar; Jani-Bølstad, Jagrati; Meijerink, Hinta & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2023). Et valg mellom Mazda og Porsche: Utvikling av digital COVID-19 smittesporing.
• Gundersen, Ragnhild Bassøe; Nielsen, Petter & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2023). The Interplay Between Communitas and Anti-structure in Liminal Innovation.
• Gundersen, Ragnhild Bassøe; Utvik, Vetle Alvenes; Thorseng, Anne Asmyr; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Nielsen, Petter (2021). AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL TRANSFOR-MATION OF COVID-19 CONTACT TRACING DURING A PANDEMIC.
• Russpatrick, Scott McKee; Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Monteiro, Eric; Nicholson, Brian & Sanner, Terje Aksel (2021). Digital Resilience to Covid-19: A Model for National Digital Health Systems to Bounce Forward From the Shock of a Global Pandemic.
• Nicholson, Brian; Nielsen, Petter & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2021). Digital platforms for development. Information Systems Journal. ISSN 1350-1917. doi: 10.1111/isj.12364.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Nielsen, Petter & Braa, Kristin (2020). Norsk teknologi kan overvåke og begrense korona-utbruddet. Bistandsaktuelt. ISSN 1501-0201.
• Adu-Gyamfi, Eric; Nielsen, Petter & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2019). The Dynamics of a Global Health Information Systems Research and Implementation Project.
• Nguyen, Simon Pettersen; Nielsen, Petter & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2018). Global Standards and Local Development.
• Saunders-Hastings, Patrick; Perrin, Maureen; Nielsen, Petter; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Uggowitzer, Steven (2018). DHIS2 as a tool for health impact assessment in low-resource settings: examining opportunities for expanding use of routine health data.
• Li, Magnus; Nielsen, Petter & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2018). Mediators to Advocate and Facilitate End-User Participation in Digital Innovation.
• Tronerud, Kristoffer; Vassbotten, Martin Theodor; Kaasbøll, Jens Johan & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2017). Usability for novices and experts: A layered design in a case study in Malawi. In Cunningham, Paul & Cunningham, Miriam (Ed.), IST-Africa 2017 Conference Proceedings. IIMC International Information Management Corporation. ISSN 978-1-905824-56-4. p. 1–9. doi: 10.23919/ISTAFRICA.2017.8102298. Show summary

  This paper presents initial findings from a project in Malawi to develop and implement a simple application for making league tables in the health sector. League tables, sometimes also called scorecards, are tables that compare various entities according to several indicators, and rank them from best to worst performers. Prior work in Malawi has suggested that these tables would be useful at both national and local levels, and should therefore be customizable so that different users can make their own tables, based on the health indicators of their choice. A main finding from this project is that usability and learnability for novice users must be balanced against the request for more advanced features from expert users. This was achieved through designing the app with a novice and an expert layer. The expert layer concerned configuration of the league tables. Configuration or customization is a general functionality in many applications and may thus be segregated in an expert layer.

• Broyles, David; Chricthon, Ryan; Jolliffe, Bob; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Dixon, Brian (2016). Shared Longitudinal Health Records for Clinical and Population Health. In Dixon, Brian (Eds.), Health Information Exchange Navigating and Managing a Network of Health Information Systems. Elsevier. ISSN 9780128031353.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Poppe, Olav (2015). FEDERATED ARCHITECTING IN WEST AFRICA.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Jolliffe, Bob & Muhire, Andrew (2015). INFORMATION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE AS PRODUCTION - BUILDING HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN RWANDA.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2015). LMIS from the HMIS perspective.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Nielsen, Petter (2015). Usynlige mennesker, usynlige sykdommer. Verdensmagasinet X. p. 74–77.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Sanner, Terje Aksel & Muhire, Andrew (2014). Better Information, Better Decisions, Better Health.
• Nielsen, Petter & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2014). Ebolas ofre. Dagsavisen. ISSN 1503-2892.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Sahay, Sundeep (2013). DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE –AN INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP PERSPECTIVE THROUGH A CASE STUDY OF PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. Full text in Research Archive
• Sanner, Terje Aksel; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Moyo, Christon M. (2013). Interdependent Institutional Logics: The Case Of Health Information System Restructuring In Malawi. Show summary

  The paper aims to identify, through an institutionalist analysis, the interplay between institutional logics pertaining to a prolonged and ongoing HMIS restructuring process in Malawi. In doing so the paper highlights important contestations between interpretations of the HMIS function, efforts aimed at its restructuring, and the meaning of the health data it evolves around. The paper contributes theoretically to the institutionalist perspective by conceptualizing a pair of mutually legitimizing institutional logics, of development (impact) and aid (opportunism), as interdependent institutional logics.

• Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Kossi, Edem Kwame; Sahay, Sundeep & Braa, Jørn (2012). A regional approach to Health Information Systems strengthening: Policies and capacity building in West Africa.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Kossi, Edem Kwame & Braa, Jørn (2011). Integrated HIS architecture of interoperable systems through networks of actions: Sierra Leone and West Africa.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Sahay, Sundeep; Braa, Jørn; Kossi, Edem Kwame & Settle, Dykki (2011). Networks of Networks - Collaborative Efforts to Develop Health Information Systems Across Developing Countries.
• Jolliffe, Bo; Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Kossi, Edem Kwame & Braa, Jørn (2011). Open and flexible Infrastructures: Scaling across diverse settings through open software, open standards, and open architecture.
• Jolliffe, Bo; Braa, Jørn; Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Kossi, Edem Kwame; Kanter, Andrew & Lesh, Neal [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2010). Comprehensive Yet Scalable Health Information Systems for Low Resource Settings: A Collaborative Effort in Sierra Leone.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Sahay, Sundeep; Mekonnen, Selamawit & Gizaw, Abyot Asalefew (2009). Interplay of Institutional logics and Implications for Deinstitutionalization: Case Study of HMIS Implementation in Tajikistan. Show summary

  This article describes the efforts to reform the Health Management Information System (HMIS) of Tajikistan. The authors were involved in proposing and piloting a computerized HMIS, based on a complete overhaul of the current data collection tools, as well as in planning for the scaling up of the system. One of the recommendations was to support local decision-making through a oexible, decentralized system to collect, process, and analyze essential primary health care data. The institutional logics underlying the current HMIS in Tajikistan were heavily inouenced by the tenets of central planning from a deeply embedded Soviet system that was alien to the ideas proposed. This article explores the different institutional logics arising from what already existed and from our proposals, as well as the interplay among them over the course of the project. Clearly, a complete deinstitutionalization—amounting to a paradigm shift—is necessary to overcome the differences in institutional logics. However, this is a remarkable challenge, given a centralized control context. This study makes interesting contributions to the domain of IS/HMIS research in two ways: (a) by reporting from a country that until now has been almost invisible to the IS community, and (b) by adding to the debate around IS and organizational change through the lens of institutional logics and deinstitutionalization.

• Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2009). The Health Metrics Network, and the case of Health Information Strengthening in Sierra Leone.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2009). Integrating Health Information Systems in Sierra Leone. Using technology to take the first steps.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Kossi, Edem Kwame; Titlestad, Ola Hodne; Tohouri, Romain & Braa, Jørn (2009). Comparing strategies to integrate health information systems following a data warehouse approach in four countries.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Titlestad, Ola Hodne; Kossi, Edem Kwame; Tohouri, Romain & Braa, Jørn (2009). Integrating Health Information Systems in Sierra Leone.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Gill, Wayne & Ngatia, Beatrice (2008). Integrating Software to Monitor HIV/AIDS: The Case of eBHRIMS in Botswana.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Titlestad, Ola Hodne; Kossi, Edem Kwame; Braa, Jørn & Tohouri, Romain (2008). Developing the district Health Information System (HIS) in Sierra Leone.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2013). Global Scaling of Health Information Infrastructures: Circulating Translations. Universitetet i Oslo.
• Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Braa, Jørn & Chadna, O (2007). A Flexible Approach to Integrating Health Information Systems: The case of Data Warehouse as Integrator in Botswana. Proceedings of IFIP WG 9.4 9th international conference "Taking Stock of E-Development".

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