2.7 Aims of policy
Decision-making across building blocks of all health systems is based on reliable information that is available to authorised persons in the context of data-generation, compilation, analysis, and communication and use (World Health Organization, 2009) to provide scientific evidence. Reliable information is also fundamental to developing health systems policies and adoption, health research as with governance and regulation. For example, IS systems are used to capture relevant information about health interventions. To achieve this, such IS systems need to follow existing medical intervention structured procedure. As opposed to multiple and competing policy aims of IS in non-medical disciplines, IS interventions in the behavioural sciences are now beginning to streamline towards achieving specific outcomes. Overwhelmingly, these outcomes are all geared towards improving organizational performance as with the aim of digital health. Digital health improved used of digital technologies including data and information technologies to improve healthcare delivery by helping to live heathier lives whilst taking greater control of their lives. In fact, the policies and aims of digital health transcend reducing illness and death to include sustaining such achievements by offering people greater control over through access to relevant health information. Where there are multiple policy aims, aspects of larger systems would be tailored for various components. For example, a Business architecture, Information architecture, Technology architecture