Futures Group support to HMIS

June 29, 2015

Health Information, Policy and Advocacy Project (HIPA)

The project is part of health system strengthening and supports the government’s capacity to plan, oversee and manage programs by improving data completeness, quality and usage of data by policy makers for general health services, including national health programs Coverage: National and subnational level (PHDs, ODs, hospitals and health centers) Duration: March 2014 – March 2019 2

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Objective 1. Improved data for decision-

making

Component 1.1: Strengthening the

Relevance and Accuracy of the HMIS

Component 1.2: Strengthening the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics system and

Maternal Death Surveillance

Objective 2. Increased capacity and

accountability of government staff and institutions

Component 2.1: Strengthening Data Use for Decision-Making and

Advocacy at Sub-National levels

Component 2.2: Increased capacity and

accountability of government staff and

institutions

Objective 3. Increased access and

improved quality of targeted prevention activities

Component 3.1: Automating the TB

HIS

Component 3.2: Linking of HIV/STI and TB Information System and HMIS

The Health Information, Policy and Advocacy Project

HMIS and support to DPHI

Futures Group is supporting the Ministry of Health’s Department of Policy and Health Information (DPHI), with as ultimate aim the DPHI being the sole repository of health information for the Ministry. Goals: • Ensure high performance of the national HMIS, complying with international

standards, and receiving recognition and support among policymakers and the public

• Ensure evidence-based decision-making by M&E of health sector performance and improved data generation and information dissemination with appropriate communication and technology

• Enable availability of quality socio-demographic, economic, morbidity, mortality, and risk factor information and improved coordination of survey planning and implementation

• Ensure effective and efficient health care and public health performance through comprehensive HIS coverage and improved database management on infrastructure, human resources, and logistics

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Current HMIS 2.0 is managed by HIS bureau of DPHI. It captures nation wide monthly aggregated data from all Public (and some private) Health Facilities

HIPA project activities to support HMIS

• Capacity building of DPHI • Enhance HMIS and provision of training

• Consistency with national program indicators • Data exchange with national programs • Build new features in HMIS in consultation with DPHI and users • Development of mobile applications

• Develop dashboards, graphic interfaces to support informed decision making by MoH and other policy decision makers and provide training on usage

• Develop/ enhance current MoH portal as an HMIS data dissemination platform for health and non-health stakeholders

• ICD-10 integration in HMIS and training. • Support to introduction of Medical certificate of cause of death,

including ICD10 coding

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Support to HMIS continuation

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• Guidelines for conducting regular HMIS data quality

assessments

• Facilitate workshops chaired by MOH with private sector and NGO health service providers to promote HIS data reporting

• Study and analyse Unique Identified initiatives within the country to develop a strategy document for implementation of common Unique Identifier

• Develop data quality guidelines for CRVS for improving birth and death notifications by health facilities and communes

• Data Demand and Information Use (DDIU) survey and capacity building workshops on data demand and information use for stakeholders.

Support to ICD-10 implementation

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Support to ICD-10 implementation task team (subcommittee of TWG-HMIS) Main tasks: Develop a frame work and implementation plan for ICD-10 integration in health information systems Issues still to be decided on or taken care off: • Decision on introduction of ICD-10 simplified version for PHC. What to use for

other levels, introduction of full-fledged ICD-10 version? • Simplified ICD-10 version needs IPD codes to be made suitable for HCs with

beds, referral hospitals and maybe provincial hospitals ? • Simplified ICD-10 version and full-fledged ICD-10 version both need a Khmer

version. Review of Khmer version once ready • Review of diseases in simplified ICD-10 version if applicable to Cambodia

health situation • Preferred IT solutions to incorporate ICD-10 codification structure in HMIS and

PMRS • Resources available and needed • Realistic implementation time schedule • Training plan • Testing/field trials and selection of Provinces, OD and health facilities for pilot

testing • After successful pilot, nation wide scale up

HIPA’s support to ICD-10 implementation

• Member of ICD-10 Task Team • Technical (IT) solutions and integration of

ICD-10 in HMIS • Support in training • Pilot in HMIS • Support to nation wide scale up in HMIS

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