System:-Information System: - Health Information System:-: Some Definitions

Some Definitions
System:- A collection of components that work together to achieve a common objective

Information System:-A system that provides information support to the decision-making
process at each level of an organization
Health Information System:- A system that integrates data collection, processing, reporting,
and use of the information necessary for improving health service effectiveness and
efficiency through better management at all levels of health services.
Health Management Information System:- An information system specially designed to
assist in the management and planning of health programmes, as opposed to delivery of care.
Healthcare is a business and, like every business, it needs good management to keep the
business running smoothly. Healthcare information systems means meticulously maintaining
a patient's healthcare records and ensuring that confidential information is securely kept.
Those in healthcare information systems must have tremendous attention to detail. They are
responsible for maintaining, updating, and securing all of a patient's healthcare information.
HMIS was conceptualized by the department of health
to ensure the quality health care by IT application in such a manner
so has to provides of standard clinical and disagnostic protocal tolls, hospital
management tools and integration of management information at the state
level so as to ensure onlie review and monitoring
This is amied at management of vital patient records, analysis of the
critical health related data so as to provide an updated planning and policy
tool towards provision of quality heath services.
The World Health Organization (WHO) argues that
investment in health management information systems
(HMIS) now could reap multiple benefits, including:
helping decision makers to detect and control emerging and endemic health problems,
monitor progress towards health goals, and promote equity;
empowering individuals and communities with timely and understandable health-related
information, and drive improvements in quality of services;
strengthening the evidence base for effective health policies, permitting evaluation of scaleup efforts, and enabling innovation through research;
improving governance, mobilising new resources, andensuring accountability in the way
they are used
Objectives
To provide access to quality health care.
To create electronic medical records.
To improve clinical and diagnostic services.
To provide early alerts on disease trends and cause of deaths as per International codes for
disease surveillance and rapid action.
To get integrated state-level holistic view of the resource utilization.
To monitor identified indicators and to get comparison of efficiency and performance
among hospitals.
To provide evidence based effective and responsive hospital management.
To provide tools for effective health policy making and planning
necessity/Needs
HMIS project was necessitated for the following reasons.
Difficulty in integration of patient records and hospital activities

affected quality of health care services adversely,
Difficulty in getting real time information regarding the outbreak of
epidemics,
Need for an integrated tool for timely monitoring of services,
Lack of timely information resulting in inefficient utilization of
resource.
Adoption of quality standards for processes such as NABH, NABL and
ICD 10 for diseases, death causes, etc.
Necessity for effective tool for health policy making.
Elements in HMIS
Data Gathering
The process of collecting required data from external and internal sources
Data Entry
The collected data is imputed and stored in the database. Database is the core component
used in information processing.
Data Transformation
The data stored in the database is transformed into useful information through the application
of computer programs and judgments made by the technical support staff and the end users.
Data Utilization
The data that has been transformed into useful information is retrieved as needed by the
management of the firm for managing operations and decision making.
Six key components
The Framework divides the components into three categories:
1) inputs,
2) processes
3) outputs.
The inputs category includes all HIS resources the physical and structural prerequisites of
an HIS. These include the ability of those responsible to lead and co-ordinate the process; the
existence of necessary laws and policies; financial resources and people with the necessary
skills to do the work; and finally the infrastructure everything from office space and desks
to filing systems and computer networks.
The processes used by an HIS include:
indicators a set of measures that show changes in the countrys health profile;
data sources an integrated HIS brings together data from a variety of sources.
data management needs enable easy access to relevant information for those who need it,
while protecting the privacy of individual patients.
The information produced the HIS outputs needs to be relevant, accessible, and useful
evidence for decision making.
Information products are collated from a range of sources, and synthesized into usable
statistics that can be
analysed and compared.
Through widespread dissemination and use of information products, the HIS provides
direct benefit to all
those who participate in it, providing an ongoing incentive for users to continue to strengthen
the system.
HMIS COMPONENT
An understanding of the adaptive but integrated HMIS begin with differentiating among its
five major component and their interrelationships:
Data/information/knowledge component
Hardware/software/ network component
Process/task/system component
Integration/interoperability component
User/administration/management component
The data/information/knowl

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