HMIS Flashcards
A formal method of making available accurate and timely information to management that is necessary to facilitate the decision-making process and enable the organization planning, control and operational functions to be carried out effectively
Management 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
Health Information System
Any collection of components that work together to achieve a common objective.
System
All the activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore or maintain health.
Health System
Meaningful collection of facts or data.
Information
Systems that provide specific information support to the decision-making process at each level of an organization.
Information System
Role of HMIS (4)
Good management is a prerequisite for increasing the efficiency of health services.
Improved health information system is clearly linked to good management.
“Changing the way information is gathered, processed, and used for decision-making implies changing the way an organization operates.”
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.
Determinants of HMIS Performance Area
Technical determinants of HMIS performance
Behavioral determinants
often make confusion with the behavioral determinants, particularly with staffs’ knowledge and skills for accomplishing routine HMIS tasks.
Technical determinants of HMIS performance
If health professionals have better understanding on importance of HMIS tasks and have high self-efficacy (confidence), better problem solving skills and competency in doing HMIS task, then they would complete a given HMIS tasks perfectly
Behavioral determinants of HMIS performance
2 Behavioral determinants of HMIS performance
Confidence Level in HMIS tasks
Competency in HMIS tasks
assessed during pre-intervention assessment of this project were Supervision Quality, promotion of information culture and HMIS resources availability as key contributors of HMIS performance at district and facility level.
Organizational Determinants
The core components of the information system were described as the development of indicators based on management information needs, data collection, transmission, and processing and analysis, which all lead to information use.
Health Information System Diagram
PRISM framework, what does it stand for
(Performance of Routine Information Systems Management) framework
