1. Centralizing Evidence
Health Information Systems
Strengthening Resource Center
Heidi Reynolds, Shannon Salentine, Eva Silvestre,
Emily Bobrow, & Liz Millar
MEASURE Evaluation
September 6, 2017
HIS Strengthening Resource Center Webinar

2. Webinar Purpose
• Overview of Health Information
Systems (HIS) Strengthening
Resource Center
• Describe content
• HIS
Strengthening
Model
• HIS Country
Profiles
• HIS Assessment
Tool Database
• Other resources

3. Context
Source: USAID’s Vision for Health System Strengthening 2015–2019
Six functional areas of the
health system

4. Context
Health system strengthening core
functions
Source: USAID’s Vision for Health System Strengthening 2015–2019

5. Context
• Answer key
questions about
investments in
HIS
MEASURE Evaluation is
working to
• Identify evidence-based packages of HIS
interventions
• Build the evidence base of what works to
strengthen HIS

6. HIS Strengthening Resource Center

7. HIS Strengthening Model
(HISSM)
Objectives:
1. Promote HIS as an
essential function of a
health system
2. Define HIS
strengthening
3. Measure HIS
performance
4. Monitor and evaluate
HIS interventions

9. The foundation for planning,
implementing, and maintaining
the HIS
• Legislation
• Partnership and coalition
building
• Policies and standards
• System champions
• Financing
• Human resources
• Capacity building and training
• Information management
• Infrastructure development

10. Operationalizing the
HIS through data-
• Collection
• Cleaning
• Processing
• Management
• Analysis
• Packaging
• Dissemination

11. Produce high-quality
data used for
decision making
• Data quality
• Systematic and
institutionalized
data use

12. HIS provide data to
inform:
• National health
sector needs
• Global health
initiatives and
agendas

13. Key Uses of the
The HISSM is currently being used by MEASURE
Evaluation advisors and country HIS management
teams to:
1. Standardize terminology and key messages
related to HIS strengthening
2. Conceptualize causal frameworks for specific
interventions across the HIS
3. Measure, synthesize, and communicate HIS
strengthening outcomes
Health Information System Strengthening Model

14. More Resources on the HISSM

15. The Learning Agenda
• HIS strengthening package of interventions
• Evidence of effective strengthening approaches

16. Conclusion

17. Questions?

18. This presentation was produced with the support of the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) under the terms of MEASURE Evaluation
cooperative agreement AID-OAA-L-14-00004. MEASURE Evaluation is
implemented by the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in partnership with ICF International; John Snow, Inc.; Management
Sciences for Health; Palladium; and Tulane University. Views expressed are not
necessarily those of USAID or the United States government.
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