Abstract:
The study explores various types of healthcare information system integration that are designed to
help hospital practitioners and professionals with better communications within and outside for better services
delivery in private hospitals in Nairobi –County. A descriptive research design methods was adopted to reach
out the objectives with the survey method being used on the targeted population of out of which a sample size
was done to represent the respondents on the study. The use of self-administered questionnaire survey was
conducted among healthcare professionals. The study uses the SPSS to describe the respondents from the
questionnaire. The study’s findings reveal out that health information systems is being used in the hospital and
interoperability policies were being applied but still much is needed, the use of healthcare medical technology
was widely applied and this has made the process faster with easily patient’s monitoring well. The strengths
and weaknesses of the health information system, interoperability policies and healthcare medical
technologies were identified and strategic recommendations were formulated accordingly. It is anticipated
that this research will make a significant contribution to the healthcare information management in private
hospital in Nairobi county-Kenya. The study attempts to bridge the existing knowledge gap by presenting the
findings of a comprehensive study on healthcare information system, interoperability policies and healthcare
medical technologies in private hospitals in Nairobi County. The study enriches the literature by providing an
assessment tool and a tool for the evaluation of regional health information systems. The study also give
valuable guidelines for improving the interoperability policies in the healthcare information systems for easy
and quick sharing of information both in Kenya and the whole world respectively
