Session Name: How to assess and continuously improve maturity of health information systems for achieving better health outcomes
Time / Room: 3:30 - 4:15 Faru
Presenter: Manish Kumar, MEASURE Evaluation; James Kariuki, CDC
Notes:
Manish Kumar, MEASURE Evaluation:
Collaboration for HIS improvement:
HIS improvement is not possible in isolation
Collaboration with Health Data Collaborative, CDC, and MEASURE evaluation
"There are tons of maturity models"
- But you won't always know how it was developed, and many of them look at one small perspective but don't look at HIS as a whole
- Why measure HIS stages of continuous improvement?
James Kariuki, CDC:
What should we measure?
- HIS core domains, components and sub-components
HOW should we measure it?
- 5-point measurement scale
- emerging/ad-hoc --> repeatable --> defined --> managed --> optimized
- The toolkit helps countries assess, plan and prioritize investments
- Map a path toward improvement
- And document successes and challenges in HIS progression
- for this national-level HIS assessment/improvement process, you need many stakeholders: from the health system, at various levels, who have expertise in one or more of the HIS components
- This can be used by a team and with a defined scope, EG, "full HIS in a country" or "all malaria data sources" or "this portion of the HIS data system"
Q&A:
Question: How do you connect these MIS improvements to health outcomes? Can we tie it together?
Next Steps:
- Use this assessment toolkit and give feedback to the authors!
- The latest version is also published in the MEASURE evaluation website in resource center.