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Paper Number
1254
Paper Type
Complete
Description
Antimicrobial resistance is described as a global health emergency, particularly affecting low and middle-income countries. A key strategy to engage with this challenge is effective monitoring to improve knowledge and support evidence-based interventions. However, LMICs lack the capacity, resources, infrastructure, and culture to implement digital interventions. To engage with this challenge, empirical work is carried out within the context of a public hospital in India to study the problem of antibiotics use followed by the design, implementation, and use of an AMR monitoring system and associated challenges in its digitization. An ADR approach is used to guide the design of the system to facilitate responsible antibiotic prescriptions by physicians. Three broad design principles are proposed which can help guide future implementation efforts for other contexts. This paper makes an important contribution to IS research of immense societal value, in informing how the potential of the digital can be effectively materialized.
Recommended Citation
Thakral, Yogita; Sahay, Sundeep; and Mukherjee, Arunima, "Designing an Antibiotics Resistance (ABR) monitoring system to strengthen the evidence base for facilitating responsible antibiotics prescription by physicians: A case study from India" (2022). ICIS 2022 Proceedings. 3.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2022/is_design/is_design/3
Designing an Antibiotics Resistance (ABR) monitoring system to strengthen the evidence base for facilitating responsible antibiotics prescription by physicians: A case study from India
Antimicrobial resistance is described as a global health emergency, particularly affecting low and middle-income countries. A key strategy to engage with this challenge is effective monitoring to improve knowledge and support evidence-based interventions. However, LMICs lack the capacity, resources, infrastructure, and culture to implement digital interventions. To engage with this challenge, empirical work is carried out within the context of a public hospital in India to study the problem of antibiotics use followed by the design, implementation, and use of an AMR monitoring system and associated challenges in its digitization. An ADR approach is used to guide the design of the system to facilitate responsible antibiotic prescriptions by physicians. Three broad design principles are proposed which can help guide future implementation efforts for other contexts. This paper makes an important contribution to IS research of immense societal value, in informing how the potential of the digital can be effectively materialized.
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