Design of an Architectural Framework
for the Implementation of eHealth
in Mauritius
Sudha Cheerkoot-Jalim and Kanishka Gopal
Abstract In Mauritius, people are becoming more and more health conscious, and
as a result, their expectations from the health services are rising, thus compelling
the government to re-think its health strategy. Taking into consideration the fact
that the government’s endeavour is to computerise the health services, this study
proposes an architectural framework for the eHealth system in Mauritius. Different
architectural approaches were studied, and an eHealth architecture for Mauritius has
been proposed. A prototype of the patient management module was implemented to
test and evaluate the proposed eHealth architecture. The prototype was thoroughly
tested, and it has shown to be working smoothly on the proposed architecture. The
result of this work can now be used by the Ministry of Health and Quality of Life as
a foundation in embarking on the eHealth strategy of the government as part of its
vision to computerise the health sector.
Keywords eHealth · mHealth · Electronic protected health information · Health
level 7 · HIPAA · Electronic health records
1 Introduction
Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become an indispensable
tool in peoples’ lives, in the society and in the economy as a whole, and are being
used in almost all spheres of life. Their adoption has now become a precondition
for dynamic financial growth and future sustainability. At the government level, the
objective today is to make maximum use of ICT in the delivery of services so as to
achieve more efficiency and, thus meeting, to a better extent, the aspirations of the
population.
S. Cheerkoot-Jalim (B ) · K. Gopal
University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius
e-mail: s.cheerkoot@uom.ac.mu
K. Gopal
e-mail: kanishka.gopal1@umail.uom.ac.mu
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