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Data management architecture, University Hospital Haiti important as it snapshots nondigitalized data process business environment in the settings of the leading national public health institution and provides arguments to inform decision makers about a significant gap between digital technology and institution as well as contribute to generating institutional changes at the country level. Yuri Zelenski Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy State University of Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince, Haiti Foundation in Support of the Ophthalmology Department Hospital Albert Schweitzer Haiti Chur, Switzerland DGZ International Ottawa, Canada Email: [email protected] Dieter Eisenmann Foundation in Support of the Ophthalmology Department Hospital Albert Schweitzer Haiti Chur, Switzerland Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy State University of Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince, Haiti Kantonsspital Graubu¨nden Chur, Schweiz Email: [email protected] Responsible Editor: Julia Schro¨ders, Umea˚ University, Sweden. Archives administrator Mrs. Yolette De´lius works with paper files for information provision in the Archives of the Ophthalmology Department of State University Hospital Haiti on January 26, 2016. The existing data management architecture is unable to provide reliable indicators for data-driven management and policy due to the lack of financing, digital technologies, adequate human resources, and technical expertise (1). Digital transformation requires different skills, equipment, regulation, policy, internet access, electricity, and maintenance (13). This capture is

References 1. World Bank. The World Development Report 2016: digital dividends. Available from: http://www.worldbank.org [cited 1 May 2016]. 2. UN. The Millennium Development Goals Report 2015: Measure what we treasure: sustainable data for sustainable development. Available from: http://mdgs.un.org [cited 15 April 2016]. 3. Brolan CE, Hill PS. Countdown for health to the post-2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals. Med J Aust 2015; 202: 28990.

Global Health Action 2016. # 2016 Yuri Zelenski and Dieter Eisenmann. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. Citation: Glob Health Action 2016, 9: 32195 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.32195

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