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Strengthening Routine Health Information Systems through Regional Networks
1. Routine Health Information Network
Strengthening Routine
Health Information Systems
through regional networks
Date 11/14/2016
IVth Health System Research Symposium
Vancouver, Canada
2. RHIS in the spotlight:
M&A for Health Summit in June 2015
Call for Action (Action Point 4)
Maximize effective use of the data revolution, based on
open standards, to rapidly improve health facility and
community health information systems, including well-
functioning disease and risk surveillance systems, and
financial and health workforce accounts
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3. The role and importance of decentralized
Routine Health Information System (RHIS)
Facility-based and ideally also community-based
Main source of information for (daily) planning and
management of quality health services at district level and
below
Coverage and quality of health interventions
Disease surveillance
Commodity security
Financial management
Also feeding information into national and global levels (for
example monitoring of SDGs)
Ideal tool for integrated management of health interventions
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4. But we all know ...
RHIS in most LMICs are
woefully inadequate
to provide the needed
information support
...
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5. What is wrong with existing routine
health information systems?
Plethora, irrelevance and poor quality of the
data collected
Centralization of information management
without feedback to district and service
delivery levels
Fragmentation into “program- oriented”
information systems: duplication and waste
Poor and inadequately used HIS resources
and infrastructure (including ICT)
AS A RESULT
Poor use of information by users at all levels
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6. We have evidence based interventions
to improve RHIS performance
Technical interventions
Establish a set of essential indicators
Redesign RHIS architecture
Ensure interoperability between RHIS subsystems
Organizational interventions
Create an information culture with incentives for use
of information
Behavioral interventions
Capacity building at all levels
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7. But, to further the cause of RHIS
strengthening …
… we need advocacy
• System strengthening interventions take
time: usually a minimum of 3-5 years
• Lack of visibility as compared to vertical
disease interventions
– Fight against the common mindset: “RHIS
do not work”
– Advocacy network: RHINO
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8. RHINO
Routine Health
Information NetwOrk
Network of organizations and professionals concerned with
improving the quality and sustainability of RHIS in LMICs
Created in 2001 with funding mainly through USAID
(MEASURE Evaluation)
Independent NGO with 501-C-3 status since 2007
Currently 1,000 + members from 60+ countries
Ministries of Health
Bilateral and multilateral donor agencies
Consulting agencies and NGOs
Website: www.rhinonet.org
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9. RHINO: summary of activities
Networking:
International Workshops
Potomac, USA, 2001 – Mpekweni, South Africa, 2003 – Chiang Rai, Thailand,
2006 – Guanajuato, Mexico, 2010 – Vancouver, Canada, 2016
Website with moderated listserv
Collaboration with HDC/USAID/WHO/World Bank
Capacity building
RHINO forums on SOTA topics
Listserv exchanges on RHIS best practices and lessons learned
Newly designed standardized RHIS course
Knowledge management
Annotated bibliography on RHIS
Publications
Consultants database
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10. RHINO: Results
Global Attention for RHIS strengthening
Health Data Collaborative
Tools for RHIS performance are available (PRISM, DQR, RHIS
Curriculum)
Many countries have started RHIS strengthening assessments,
plans and implementation (PRISM inventory, 2013)
Need for networking closer to lower and middle income
countries
Better south –south learning: sharing best practices and
lessons learned
Recent drive for regional networks: RELACSIS -- WAHO --AeHIN
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11. RHINO RHIS Regionalization Session
OBJECTIVES
Promote the establishment of regional networks for
advocacy and knowledge sharing to strengthen
country investments in RHIS
Discuss best practices and lessons learned from
existing regional networks
Share the WHO and MEASURE Evaluation
frameworks and tools for RHIS assessment and
strengthening
12. RHINO RHIS Regionalization Session:
AGENDA
Keynote Address:
Eduardo Celades (WHO/Geneva): Global RHIS Situation
Regional Network Panel
Juan Eugenio Hernandez (INSP): Latin America
Sanjay Zodpey (PHFI): Asia
Issiaka Zombie (WAHO): West Africa
Vincent Shaw (HISP): Southern Africa
Break Out Groups Discussion
Idea Café: RHIS frameworks, tools, innovation