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A Community Health Information System (CHIS) is an information system that captures and supports the routine and emergency health care of a patient population within a defined geographic context.

Who uses a CHIS?

The following actors are important within a CHIS ecosystem:

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Primarily, CHIS are focused on delivering delivering care in the field where there is minimal physical health infrastructure (i.e. within a patient's home, at a local gathering place, within a school).