WEEK 12 – THE FIELD HEALTH SERVICE INFORMATION SYSTEM

THE FIELD HEALTH SERVICE INFORMATION COMPONENTS OF THE FHSIS

SYSTEM (FHSIS)
Recording Tools
• The Field Health Service Information 1. Individual/Family Treatment Records;
System (FHSIS) is a major component of 2. Target/Client Lists;
the network information sources 3. Reporting Forms; and
developed by the Department of Health 4. Output Reports
(DOH)to enable it to better manage in
nationwide health service delivery
IMPORTANCE OF THE FHSIS
activities.
• Helps local government determine
• The FHSIS is intended to address the
public health priorities.
short term data needs of DOH staff with
• Basis for monitoring and evaluating
managerial/ supervisory functions in
health program implementation.
DOH facilities and in each of the
• Basis for planning, budgeting, logistics,
program areas.
and decision making at all levels.
What is the Field Health Service Information • Source of data to detect unusual
System (FHSIS)? occurrence of a disease.
• Needed to monitor health status of the
- It is a network of information.
community.
- It is intended to address the short term
• Helps midwives in following up clients.
needs of DOH and LGU staff with
• Documentation of RHM/PHN day to day
managerial or supervisory functions in
activities.
facilities and program areas.
- It monitor health service delivery
The FHSIS has as its focus the programs of the
nationwide.
DOH public health services (PHS), namely:
What are the objectives Field Health Service • Maternal and Child (MCH);
Information System (FHSIS)? • Expanded Program on Immunization
(EPI);
1. To provide summary data on health • Control of Diarrheal Diseases (CDD);
service delivery and selected program • Nutrition;
accomplishment indicators at the • Family Planning ;
barangay, municipality, district, • Maternal Care;
provincial, regional and national levels. • The Tuberculosis, Malaria,
2. To provide data which when combined Schistosomiasis, and Leprosy Control
with data from other sources, can be progress;
used for program monitoring and • Dental Health
evaluation purposes. • Environmental Health
3. To provide a standardized, facility-level
data base which can be accessed for Recording and Reporting Tools
more in-depth studies. 1. Individual Treatment Record (ITR) - This
4. To minimize the recording and reporting tool serves as the foundation or primary
burden at the service delivery level in building block of FHSIS. It is a basic
order to allow more time for patient patient consultation record or a bond
care and promotive activities. paper which bares the following

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information: date, name, address of

patient, height, weight, chief complaint
and presenting signs and symptom, the
diagnosis (if available), treatment and
date of treatment of each family
member who consulted in the health
center.

SAMPLE OF ITR:

2. TARGET/CLIENT LISTS - The

Target/Client Lists is the second
“building block” of the FHSIS and are
intended to serve several purposes.

Purposes:

– It helps nurse/midwife plan and

carry out patient care and
service delivery. It reflects the
list of “target” or eligible clients
for a particular health program

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– It facilitates the monitoring and

supervision of service delivery
activities.
– It reports services delivered.
– It provide a clinic-level data for
population- based further
studies/ research

The TCL to be maintained in the FHSIS

version 2008 are as follows:

• Target Client List for Prenatal Care

• Target Client List for Post-Partum Care
• Target Client List of Under 1 Year Old
Children
• Target Client List for Family Planning
• Target Client List for Sick Children
• NTP TB Register (same as program)
• National Leprosy Control Program Form
2-Central Registration Form (same as
program)

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- This summary table is an easy source of

data for reports being prepared by the
midwife.
- This also serves as the data source for
any survey, special study, or research
that may include the facility.
- Most importantly, this can serve as a
tool for the midwife to assess her own
accomplishments.

3.2. Morbidity Disease

- The midwife in the BHS accomplish
this table on a monthly basis.
- This summary table can also be the
source of ten leading causes of
morbidity for the municipality/city.
3. Summary Table - The Summary Table is
- This summary table will help the
a form with 12-month columns filled up
nurse and MHO to get the monthly
on a monthly basis to a tally the number
trend disease.
of clients in the barangay health
4. The Monthly Consolidation Table
facilities in terms of health program
(MCT)
accomplishments and morbidity/
- The Consolidation Table is an
diseases.
essential form in the FHSIS where
- The Summary Table is composed of:
the nurse at the RHU records the
(1) Health Program Accomplishment
reported data per indicator by each
(2) Morbidity Disease
PHN or midwife.
3.1. Health Program Accomplishment - The Consolidation Table shall serve
as the Output Table of the RHU as it
- The midwife records on this summary already contains listing of BHS per
table all the data that are found in the indicator by each barangay health
TCL. station.

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- This is the source document of the

nurse for the Quarterly form.

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