Lecture 1 Flashcards
What are the 6 building blocks of a health system?
•service delivery
•health workforce
•health information systems
•essential medicines/drugs/medical logistics
•health financing
•leadership and governance
Define data
These are raw, unorganized and unanalyzed facts and figures that represent conditions,ideas or objects and are yet to be processed.
What are the types of data?
Primary Data and Secondary Data.
List the two types of primary Data?
Qualitative and quantitative
What are the classifications of quantitative data?
Discrete and continuous data
What are the classifications of qualitative data?
Nominal and ordinal data
What are the classifications of secondary data?
Internal data and external data
What is information?
This is data that has been analysed, processed and given context to make it useful.
What is a health information system?
A system designed to manage healthcare data.
Includes systems that collect,store,manage and transmit a patient’s electronic medical record (EMR),a hospital’s operational management or a system supporting healthcare policy decisions.
Define District Health Information System
A system or mechanism that provides for data collection, transmission, entry, analysis and report generation at the district/facility level.
It comprises all the community and health facility level systems as well as the district health office.
What does DHIS provide?
Provides a baseline for district planning implementation and monitoring on major indicators of disease pattern,preventive services and physical resources.
List the tools for data collection.
-client/patient files
-registers
-tally and active sheets
-client record forms
-laboratory test forms
-pharmacy forms
-prescription slips
What are the two types of HMIS?
EHR
Paperbased
What are the characteristics of good information?
•Accurate (factual)
•Complete (has all the necessary data)
•Cost beneficial
•User targeted (has a target audience)
•Relevant
•Authoritative (should give some sort of direction)
•Timely
•Easy
What are the characteristics of a well functioning HMIS?
•should be able to generate and compile information from service delivery points to district level routine information systems,disease surveillance systems and also laboratory information systems.
•should he able to detect events that threaten public health security.
•should be able to analyze,synthesize and communicate information for use in planning and implementation.
What is the structure of the Zambia Health Management Information System?
Community —–>facility——>district —->province —–>Ministry of Health
What does HIA1 capture when reporting data monthly?
Data on diseases.
Diseases that are coded (less complicated diseases).
What does HIA Free Foam capture?
Captures diseases that are not coded.
Used in hospitals.
What does HIA 2 capture?
Captures only service delivery
What does HIA3 capture?
Data about x-rays and physiotherapy only at hospitals.
Captures service delivery at hospital level.
List the components of HMIS
Data
Hardware
Process
Integration
Users
Describe the integration component
It focuses on the interoperability component.
It is about integration of data, information and knowledge across organizational stakeholders.
Describe the users component
Focuses on the administration and management component.
It is about bringing together and intelligently coordinating all of the other HMIS components based on e.g shared technological infrastructure.
