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Community Based Management Information System

The document discusses the importance of health information systems for effective management in the health sector. It defines key terms like health system, information, and health information system. A health information system is described as a set of components and procedures organized to generate information to improve healthcare management decisions at all levels. The goals of such a system are to improve action, rather than just gain information. Current health management information systems are described as having issues like irrelevant information, poor data quality, duplication, and lack of timely reporting and feedback.

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Community Based Management Information System

The document discusses the importance of health information systems for effective management in the health sector. It defines key terms like health system, information, and health information system. A health information system is described as a set of components and procedures organized to generate information to improve healthcare management decisions at all levels. The goals of such a system are to improve action, rather than just gain information. Current health management information systems are described as having issues like irrelevant information, poor data quality, duplication, and lack of timely reporting and feedback.

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Health Management

Information Systems
Why health information system?
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.
Definitions
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

What is wrong with current health MIS?
Irrelevance of the information gathered
Poor quality of data
Duplication and waste among parallel
health information system
Lack of timely reporting and feedback
Poor use of information
The difference in culture between data
people and decision makers: Planning and
management staff rely primarily on gut
feeling to formulate ad hoc decisions
rather seek pertinent data.
Information process

Data collection
Resources
Data transmission
Management
Data processing
Organizational
rules
Data analysis

Information for use in
planning and management
Knowledge states Processing activities

Valuation

Weighing
option


Interpretation

Analysis

Sorting
selection

Collection

Decision
Judgement
Understanding
Knowledge
Information
Data
Ways to enhance the use of information
in decision-making
Characteristics of the data
Characteristics of the problems and the
decisions they require
Organizational or structural characteristics
Cultural differences between data people
and action people
The communication between the two
Characteristics of the data
Ownership and relevance
Validity and reliability
Aggregation of data
Customizing information to the users
needs
Timeliness of feedback
Different characteristics of the users (action
people) and the providers of data (data people)
Characteristics Action people Data people
Incentives/main
objectives
Change, Good standing
with supervisors
Publication, Detailed report
Time horizon Short: days, weeks Long: months, years
Main interest Relative values (time
trends, two regions)
Absolute values and totals
Cost orientation Strong Weak
Language Action-oriented,
managerial
Precise, academic jargon
Communication
style
Executive summaries,
Business meetings
Full reports, written
publications, Conferences
Training
Administration, Medicine,
Economics, Management
Statistics, Information,
Medicine
Familiarity with
data/ Substance
Limited/ Excellent Excellent/ Limited


Sybsystems of Health Information System
WHO proposes to categorize the health
information system under five interrelated
subsystems:
Epidemiological Surveillance (notifiable
infectious diseases, environmental conditions,
and risk factors)
Routine service reporting
Special programmes reporting systems
(tuberculosis and leprosy control, MCH, school
health)
Administrative systems (health care
financing systems, health personnel systems,
logistic systems)
Vital registration systems (births, deaths,
and migratory movements)
Data collection instruments for system
management
Health unit report forms
Supervisory checklists
ISSUES
Layout
Computerization
Determining community health activities
PHC-MAP programme
Autodiagnosis
Irans Vital horoscope
Community-based maternal records
Community-based growth monitoring
Development of community health information
systems

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