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This paper takes a sneak-peek at the state
healthcare sector in Sri Lanka. It looks at the number,
type, and location in Sri Lanka, of the over 1600 staterun medical institutions, ranging bum the small rural
clinics, to the large city hospitals, the currently used
healthcare-related IT technology in these institutions,
the issues and shortcomings, the desired IT technology
and service levels in healthcare, and the applicability of
the Health Level 7(HL7) healthcare standard to elevate
the IT services and its usage in healthcare in Sri Lanka,
both vertically down the different healthcare-serviceprovider tiers, and laterally in terms of increasing
demographic spread, related improvement in the
relevant system performance indicators, and finally an
extrapolation of these findings to the global context The
study employed valued, timely, and relevant data
collected about the healthcare sector in Sri Lanka in the
analysis and solution phases, but the findings are
ubiquitous and overarching, seamlessly extrapolatable
to the Asian and greater universal contexts as well.
