Cloud Based Capacity Building Resource Sharing Architecture For Healthcare Institutions In Ethiopian

Abstract

Capacity building program in the HDIs plays a vital role to increase the capacity of the workers and to reduce health inequality by creating awareness and ability. But, there is no means to share and access these CBP resources because the resources are dispersed in different HDIs and is not electronically available. So Practitioners do not consistently use a single site to share their knowledge and resources. Resource sharing is a mode of operation which consists of various collaborative activities between resource centers and other concerned bodies. Its purpose is sharing knowledge and experience very quickly and timely. The introduction of cloud computing has opened up fresh opportunity for better collaboration and sharing. So currently, there are many promising improvements such as collaborative methods to electronic repositories, electronic interactions, establishing content consortiums and other practical experiences for resource sharing purpose. This study proposes community cloud platform architecture for sharing of capacity building resources in the healthcare institutions. The CCBRSA architecture adapts the CCRA v.2 to exploit all considerations and features of cloud based software architecture. The CCBRSA architecture facilitates fast access to capacity building resources and best practices with low cost and high availability. It teaches or instructs the health workers about the health system technologies in depth. Also some of cloud computing freely available platforms and tools were analyzed and compared. The prototype was implemented using OpenShift online Redhat‟s platform. The prototype is very interactive and user friendly which have resource sharing and accessing portal. Hence, the CBRS system is used as a common alliance and electronic means of resource sharing, knowledge sharing, collaboration and learning center for HDIs. It reduces health inequality by improving the ability of health workers, because the workers use CBRS system as a tool for self-learning and for knowledge and experience sharing.