Health Information System Research Situation in Indonesia: A Bibliometric Analysis

Health system strengthening has been greatly supported by system information. The progress and reliability of health information systems (HIS) are also influenced by contributions from existing research in HIS field. Research in health informatics has been focusing on the use of bibliometric analysis with regards to bibliometric tools and analysis of different sources of electronic evidence. We would like to answer whether the research has fulfilled the needs of problem solving in Indonesian health systems. This study explored the health information research topics in Indonesia through Sinta publication database and international resources (Scopus). This study used the bibliographic information from Google Scholar article database between 2014 to 2018 using total sampling technique. Data was extracted using Mendeley Web Importer and Mendeley Desktop tools. Indonesian health information researchers have shown their interest in using the most current approach in exploring health information through the big data and internet of things in their practice. This study showed an increasing number of local researchers who are interested in using health informatics as their focus of research in the 2014 - 2018 period. The most prevalent topics of research were hospital information systems, electronic medical records, mHealth, telemedicine, and primary health care information system (SIMPUS).