A presentation about the health management system with its objectives . Challenges & Advantages

1. Health Management Information System
Rakhi .M.Shende

2. Definition: "a mechanism for the collection, processing, analysis and transmission
of information required for organizing and operating health services, and also for
research and training"
Objectives ;-
1 ] Provide reliable, relevant, up-to-date, adequate, timely and reasonably complete information for
health managers at all levels (i.e., central, intermediate and local).
2 ] To provide at periodic intervals, data that will show the general performance of the health
services and to assist planners in studying their current functioning and trends in demand and
work load.

3. Requirements to be satisfied by health information systems
 The system should be population-based .
 The system should avoid the unnecessary agglomeration of data .
 The system should be problem-oriented .
 The system should employ functional and operational terms
 The system should express information briefly and imaginatively
 The system should make provision for the feedback of data.

4.  Components of a health information system ;- A comprehensive health
information system requires information and indicators .
Sources of health information ;-
 Census
 Registration of vital events
 Notification of disease
 Sample Registration System (SRS)
 Hospital records
 Disease registers
 Record linkage
 Epidemiological surveillance
 Environmental health data
 Health manpower statistics
 Population surveys

5. Flow of Data
PHC
Data set
CHC
Data set
Block
District
Hospital
data set
District Head Quarter
State Head
Quarter
National Level

6. Uses of health information ;-
 To measure health status ,medical & healthcare needs, quantify health problems .
 Comparison of health status .
 Health services & programs .
 Assessing objectives (Effectiveness & Efficiency )
 Assessing attitude, satisfaction of beneficiaries
 Research

7. Challenges For HMIS
 Awareness
 Inadequate government’s capacity
 Gender issue
 Fragmentation of health information
 Establishing a unified information system within country.

8. Reference
 Park, K. (2007) Parks Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine. 19th Edition, M/S Banarsidas Bhanot
Publishers, Jabalpur.
 Husain, Z., Saikia, N., & Bora, R. S. (2012). Opportunities and challenges of health management information
system in India: a case study of Uttarakhand.