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Health Management Information System

The document discusses the health management information system (HMIS) in Pakistan. It defines HMIS and explains that its goal is to improve health care management decisions through generating useful information. It notes that Pakistan, like many developing countries, has long needed an effective health information system for health sector planning and management. The national HMIS collects, transmits, analyzes data and provides feedback to first-level care facilities. It also outlines the importance and benefits of HMIS, as well as the steps involved in restructuring a health management information system.

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Health Management Information System

The document discusses the health management information system (HMIS) in Pakistan. It defines HMIS and explains that its goal is to improve health care management decisions through generating useful information. It notes that Pakistan, like many developing countries, has long needed an effective health information system for health sector planning and management. The national HMIS collects, transmits, analyzes data and provides feedback to first-level care facilities. It also outlines the importance and benefits of HMIS, as well as the steps involved in restructuring a health management information system.

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Health Management Information

System
By
Imran Yousafzai
Lecturer, KMU
What is HMIS?
• The health management information
system (HMIS) is an instrument which could
be used to improve patient satisfaction
with health services by tracking certain
dimensions of service quality.
System - Any collection of components that work together to achieve a common
objective.
Health System - All the activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore or
maintain health.
Information - Meaningful collection of facts or data.
Information System - Systems that provide specific information support to the
decision-making process at each level of an organization.
Health Information System - A set of components and procedures organized
with the objective of generating information which will improve health
care management decisions at all levels of the health system.
The ultimate objective of health information system is not “to gain
information” but “to improve action”
HMIS in pakistan
• In Pakistan, like many other developing countries,
the need for an effective health information
systemHealth information system has been long
overdue. The importance of high quality reliable
data for health sector planning and management
cannot be overstated. Experience shows that
programmes without a mechanism for data
collection and use are destined to fail. This is becuse
they have no adequate means of setting realistic
targets or learning lessons from their shortcomings.
HMIS in Pakistan
• The national health information system is a
mechanism of data collection, transmission, analysis
and information feedback to first-level care facilities.
Over the years system has become one of the major
data sources for the health sector in the country.
• WHO provides institutional support for improvement
of the national health information system. During
2010–2011, WHO funded some critical activities of the
system not being supported by other partners.
Why HMIS?
• Good management is a prerequisite for increasing the
efficiency of health services.
• Improved health information system is clearly linked to
good management.
• Information is crucial at all management levels of the
health services from periphery to the centre. It is required
by policymakers, managers, health care providers,
community health workers.
• “Changing the way information is gathered, processed, and
used for decision-making implies changing the way an
organization operates.”
Steps for involved in restructuring of Health
MIS
Step 1: Identifying information needs and feasible indicators
Step 2: Defining data sources and developing data collection
instruments for each of the indicators selected
Step 3: Developing a data transmission and processing
system
Step 4: Ensuring use of the information generated
Step 5: Planning for health MIS resources
Step 6: Developing a set of organizational rules for health
information system management

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