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1. By:
Samreen Soomro
Afshan Jokhio
Ambreen Bashir
Abdul Nasir
Health Information System (HIS): Its
Importance and Assessment

2. CONTENTS
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 Introduction
 Goals
 Importance Of HIS
 Components Of HIS
 Basic Steps For HIS Assessment
 Assessment Of HIS
 Conclusion
 Recommendation

3. Goal
 Improve participant’s knowledge on health
information system.
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4. Definitions
 Information System
Provide specific information support to the decision-
making process at each level of an organization
(Winter, A. 2010)
 Health Information System (HIS)
 An information processing and storing subsystem
of a health care organization.
 May be a single institution(a hospital) or a group
of health care institutions (health care network)
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5. Importance of a Health Information
System
 Produces information needed by
 Patients, communities, service providers,
programmer
managers, policy-makers, providers of funds,
global
agencies and organizations
 Information used for
 Better management, assess coverage and
quality of services; costs and expenditures.
 Detect and control emerging and endemic
health problems
 Monitor progress towards health goals; and
promote equity.5

6. Importance of a Health Information
System
 Strengthen the evidence base for effective health
policies
 Improve management related to mobilizing new
resources and ensure accountability of their
use.
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7. Components of a HIS
 Inputs
 HIS resources
 Processes
 Indicators
 Data sources
 Data management
 Output
 Information products
 Dissemination and use
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8. Components of a HIS cont….
 HIS resource
 Legislative, regulatory and planning frameworks
 Personnel, finances, logistics support.
 Indicators
 Determinants of health; health system inputs,
outputs and outcomes.
 Data sources
 Individual records, service records and
resource records.
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9. Components of a HIS cont….
 Data management
 Data collection, storage, quality-assurance and
flow, processing, compilation and analysis
 Information products
 Data transformed into information for evidence
and knowledge to shape health action
 Dissemination and use
 Making information readily accessible to decision-
makers
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10. Basic Steps For HIS
Assessment:
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 Formulate TOR
 Assembling and review information
 Confirmation of the services
 Identification of the indicators
 Designing & testing the assessment tools.

11. Continue……
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 Prepare for field data collection
 Conduct the assessment
 Analyze the result and prepare report
 Formulate the recommendation and prepare
followup

12. Assessment of a HIS
Health Metrics Network tool
 Use to assess components of HIS on a scale of
0-100%
 0-24%=not adequate
 25-49%= present but not adequate
 50-74%= adequate
 75-100%= highly adequate
(WHO; HMN framework 2005)12

13. Assessment of HIS cont….
Cameroons HIS
 Assessment outcome 2007 places HIS at 45%
i.e…..
 Characterized by
Personnel with inadequate knowledge on HIS.
Untimely and failure to report data
Inadequate resources
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14. Conclusion
 Better and stronger HIS can resolved
inadequacies in health systems.
 Awareness of the importance and components of
a HIS is a prerequisite to all those involved with
its activities
 Self -assessment of HIS is necessary for its
strengthening and use for better decisions and
better health.
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15. Recommendations
 Assignment of skilled personnel to the HIS unit
accompanied by better remuneration
 The dissemination and use of information from
the system for decision-making.
 More emphasis on electronic than paper-based
data reporting
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16. WE HOPE THIS WAS
INFORMATIVE
THANKS FOR YOUR KIND
ATTENTION
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