Browsing by Author "Beshah, Tibebe(Dr)"

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    Assessment and Enhancement of HMIS Implementation Strategy in Oromiya Region at Chancho Health Center.
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-05-06) Negash, Tadele; Beshah, Tibebe(Dr)
    Background: - HMIS is an organized system of record keeping, reporting, processing analysis, use and feedback of information. Effective health management information system (HMIS) is essential for setting priority for community based problems, for allocation of budget and human resource and decision making in general to managers and stakeholders. Facilitate informed Local decision making it is necessary to implement health management information system to timely and accurately provide at the level of health facility. Objective: - The purpose of this study was to assess the weakness and strength of the existing HMIS and implementation at chancho health center. Methodology: - A facility based cross sectional Descriptive study was conducted in Chancho Health Center from February to April, 2015. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods were used. Data were collected through open ended questions of self administered filled by 50 health professionals who were volunteer at the time of data collection. Qualitative data which is Observations and in depth interview was conducted with head of health center and HMIS focal person, for qualitative analysis of certain document. SPSS version 20 software was used to analyze quantitative data. Results: - The finding of the study was presented in table. The quantitative results on each outcome measures use in assessment are reported and explored by qualitative methodology. .Most of the respondents were health professionals with qualification out of the questioned 50 staffs 32 (64%) Diploma and 18 (36%) were Degree. 90% of the respondent reported that 43 (86%) of the respondent said, there is no trained staffs on basic computer literacy and manual reporting. lack of coordination mechanism has also played its part for this challenge. 39 (78%) of the respondents said that, there was no incentive for information use and it shows also that 41 (82%) of the respondents said that, there is no motivation mechanism to improve information culture. Conclusion and recommendations: I, conclude That There is no necessary input to HMIS like budget, training and coordination mechanism in the facility. It was also recommended that HMIS implementation program in the facility should have ownership and it is important to identify the X capacity requirement of the HMIS unit at health center level and the health professional and health managers at health center level need to be motivated and encouraged in order to make them committed and accountable to their work.
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    Cloud Computing Readiness of Some Selected Organizations in Ethiopia: Towards A Strategic Guideline
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-10-07) Equar G/Mariam, Alemayehu; Beshah, Tibebe(Dr)
    Cloud computing is a new way of delivering computing resources and services. It promises better delivery of IT services as well as availability whenever and wherever needed at reduced costs with users paying only as much as they consume through the services of cloud service providers. The cloud technology reduces complexity while increasing speed and quality of IT services provided. Nowadays, organizations understand that Cloud computing can present them significant benefits, but many are struggling with what the options are, the benefits and risks of those options and when and how they should initiate their journey to embrace cloud computing. Organizations believe that cloud computing can improve their performance. However, as with any innovation & adoption, cloud computing should be strictly assessed before its widespread adoption. This paper discusses the factors and challenges of cloud computing adoption. Additionally, the paper discussed the various service and deployment models of cloud computing and present important factors necessary for successful cloud computing adoption. This paper investigates the readiness of 7 selected Organizations from four different sectors located in Ethiopia. The study used the Technology Organization Environment (TOE) framework. This research collected data from interviews .The data was analyzed using qualitative data analysis methods. It produces a Strategic guideline that could be used by Ethiopian organizations for the successful adoption of cloud computing. The researcher also validated the Guideline by different Experts in the works at managerial and Technical level. Organizations can use the strategic guideline to determine the direction, strategy, and resource allocation when they decided to migrate from traditional to cloud-based environment. If they follow the guidelines proposed by the study, their cloud computing readiness level will be improved and they will benefit from a successful cloud computing implementation. .
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    Determinants of Health Management Information Utilization for Decision Making in Health Facilities improvement project at Woliso Town administration health office S/W/Shoa zone of Oromia region
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-06-04) Kitaba, Tesfaye; Beshah, Tibebe(Dr)
    Introduction:-The primary aim of HMIS is to support informed operational and strategic decision-making in the health care system by providing quality data that help managers and health workers to plan and manage the service of health care delivery for the population. Data must be collected, processed and transformed, communicated, and used to inform decisions on resource allocations, policies, staffing, service delivery, cost-recovery, supportive supervision, and other elements working toward improved health outcomes. Objective: - To identify determinants of Health management information utilization for decision making in health facilities of Woliso Town administration Health office. Method: - A cross sectional, descriptive study was conducted in the health facilities found in Woliso Town Administration. A structured questionnaire was filled by 38 health professionals. Observation cheek list was used to observe different documents and in-depth interview with 6 candidates using semi structured questionnaire and a total of 44 health professionals and HIS focal persons was participant of the study. The data from the questioner were checked, entered and analyzed using SPSS version 16. Data was described and presented using frequencies, tables, and graphs. Determinants that affect the use of HMIS were analyzed using logistic regression. Odd ratio with 95 percent confidence interval and 5% level of precision were used for data interpretation. Result: - The overall utilization of information by health workers were 50%.The main determinant factors that limit use of information was inadequate training of health workers to fill out format, managers poor data quality cheek with review team regularly, Inadequate feed back to the staff regularly by managers and poor discussions of achievements with their friend by health workers and low confidence level of health workers in calculating percentages and rates correctly were the major ones. These determinants need improvement through proposed solutions and intervention. Conclusion and recommendation: - The study project demonstrates limited utilization of routine data to make decisions in the health facilities due to many determinant factors identified as Technical, Organizational and Behavioral factors that needs intervention. It can be used as base line to intervene on identified determinants to improve utilization of information for decision making in government health facilities of Waliso Town Administration.
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    ERP Post-Implementation Management Framework: The case of Ethiopian Airlines
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-06-04) Taddele, Elsa; Beshah, Tibebe(Dr)
    ERP system is being adopted by international organizations globally; in order to streamline business processes, manage and create seamless integration, and ensure real time information availability for decision making. ERP adoption is considered as one of the biggest and most complex projects a firm could manage even though these projects can vary in size, structure, and methodology. This is due to the extensive requirement of effort, time, resources, and organizational changes. As a result, ERP system implementation critical success factors (CSFs) and project management aspects have gotten much attention by both researchers and business practitioners. However, successful implementation of ERP is only a first step in the accomplishment towards achieving ERP success. Prior studies have revealed that organizations are not achieving the promised business values due to several post-implementation issues and underutilization of the system. This indicates, post-implementation is an essential phase of ERP life-cycle for the system success. The purpose of this study is to investigate technical, organizational, and operational issues of ERP post-implementation success in the context of Ethiopian airlines and design a solution framework to address those issues. The general approach of this research was a case study in which a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods has been used to collect and analyze data. Based on extensive literature review, a research model was established which constitutes three main themes: technical, organizational and operational concerns that influence ERP post-implementation success. The survey questionnaire and interview outline contents were prepared based on the defined research model by partially adapting from existing literature and developing additional ones as required. The quantitative aspect of the study involved 124 end users from various departments of the organization with different job positions, roles, and work experience. In the qualitative study, direct interviews were used to collect data from 4 executive management members of the airline. Moreover, document analysis was used as a secondary source of data to gain more information and triangulate the findings. The quantitative data were analyzed by employing appropriate techniques of descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS software tool. The qualitative data were analyzed using the techniques of open codding. The result of the study indicated that organizational theme constructs were the most critical determinants of ERP post-implementation success; which make the highest viii contribution (58.93%) of the total variance. Accordingly, continuous improvement (41.02%), user involvement (6.61%), training (4.94 %), absorptive capacity (3.23%) and top management championship (3.13%) are the major constructs of organizational theme. Technical theme has a significant contribution which explains 10.36% of the total variance of ERP post-implementation success. The technical theme constructs are ERP attribute, IT expertise and user support level quality, and external relationship management. Based on the research findings, a solution framework has been designed and presented in a two-dimensional matrix format. The first dimension of the matrix (vertical) represents the core issues/ activities to be executed and the second dimension (horizontal) represents the management, people, process, and technology perspectives of the proposed solutions with respect to the identified core issues/ activities. The survey questionnaire and the interview outline contents were reviewed by IT professional and ERP experts of the organization to measure the content validity. Subsequently, pilot study was conducted with selected users and the feedbacks were incorporated prior to disseminating the questionnaire to the respondents. Further, to measure the internal consistency of the questionnaire, reliability test was conducted using cronbach‟s coefficient alpha with a result of .917 which asserted the reliability of the instrument. Moreover, construct validity was conducted using principal component analysis (PCA), which declared that the constructs of the study explain 74.16% of the total variance of ERP post-implementation success. In this study, expert validation and descriptive methods were used to evaluate the result (proposed framework) of the study. Accordingly, focus group discussion and survey questionnaires were the two ways used to gain expert validation. The overall rating of the proposed framework is 4.26 which represent the category of „Very Good‟. Hence, the research process and result of this study is believed to be valid which indicates the usability and applicability of the output of the study. This research is believed to produce results that can improve the utilization of ERP system in Ethiopian airlines, other sectors, and organizations. Finally, it is recommended to execute the proposed framework by focusing on organizational theme as a priority goal in order to improve the utilization of the system and attain post-implementation success.
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    Log Data Analysis to Discover User Navigational Behavior: The Case of Adama Science and Technology University Web Users
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-10-03) Mulatie Dehnaw, Amare; Beshah, Tibebe(Dr)
    The Web has become an exceptional world-wide repository of knowledge. It contains valuable information for all types of knowledge workers; yet, the Web is dynamic and noisy. As of the popularity of WWW by web users, and due to the alarming rate at which the WWW is growing in both the sheer volume of traffic and the complexity of different websites, this growth of the World Wide Web has led to the development of different client side and server side tools that mine the information resources to extract knowledge. Analyzing this data will help the organizations to realize the lifetime value of their clients, and provide them with a more sophisticated structure of the web site and services. A massive amount of data is gathered by Web servers in the form of Web access logs. This is a rich source of information for understanding Web user surfing behavior. As a result of this, exploring user navigation behavior is expected to redesign the web accessing policy based on user requirement and experience. Based on the above expression, to realize web users’ navigational behaviors of Adama Science and Technology University web server log data is used to conduct the current study to describe web user navigational behaviors by applying web usage mining. Web Usage Mining is the process of applying statistical analysis and data mining techniques to discover interesting usage navigation patterns of web users. To explore usage patterns of the Adama Science and Technology University web users the researcher adopted hybrid knowledge discovery approach. Such approach consists of steps, such as problem understanding, data understanding, data preparation, mining user behaviors, evaluation and use of the discovered knowledge. The web log data prepared by using log file viewer tool, to clean irrelevant record from the log data, to categorization, and formatting, using datapreparator-1.7 tool preprocessed log record to converted into the form appropriate for pattern discovery tool by using MS- excel statements. After preprocessing of log file experiments conducted using statistical analysis with datapreparator-1.7 tool and weka 3.7.4 for generating association rule using Apriori and FP Growth algorithm. The result of statistical analysis and data mining techniques shows that social media and entertainment sites are the most frequently accessed once by the web users’ of Adama Science and Technology University. The major challenges that involved in this study are preprocessing of log file due to its large, noisy, and complex nature of log record, and identifying rules and patterns that are potentially interesting. Finally recommendations were done for decision makers ASTU ICT workers, and further researchers to improve the website.