2.7 Aims of policy
Decision-making across building blocks of all health systems is based on
reliable information that is available to authorised persons in the
context of data-generation, compilation, analysis, and communication and
use (World Health Organization, 2009) to provide scientific evidence.
Reliable information is also fundamental to developing health systems
policies and adoption, health research as with governance and
regulation. For example, IS systems are used to capture relevant
information about health interventions. To achieve this, such IS systems
need to follow existing medical intervention structured procedure. As
opposed to multiple and competing policy aims of IS in non-medical
disciplines, IS interventions in the behavioural sciences are now
beginning to streamline towards achieving specific outcomes.
Overwhelmingly, these outcomes are all geared towards improving
organizational performance as with the aim of digital health. Digital
health improved used of digital technologies including data and
information technologies to improve healthcare delivery by helping to
live heathier lives whilst taking greater control of their lives. In
fact, the policies and aims of digital health transcend reducing illness
and death to include sustaining such achievements by offering people
greater control over through access to relevant health information.
Where there are multiple policy aims, aspects of larger systems would be
tailored for various components. For example, a Business architecture,
Information architecture, Technology architecture