14 Encourage participants to discuss on the following questions, and show the slides next to it Slide 4: HMIS (AS-IS) Cont.
Data Quality
Additional work of late error detection
Important data items often missed
Significant discrepancy between data reported and recorded in registers in the facilities Slide 3: Assessment Findings (AS-IS)
Information Use
Mere collection and reporting of data to higher level
Aggregation of unused data
No information use for performance and service delivery improvement at the periphery
Decision making highly centralized Slide 2: BPR Assessment of HMIS
Conducted between June and September 2006
Quantitative
and qualitative assessment
HMIS assessed in terms of
Information use
Data quality
Data burden
Human resource
ICT
Finance, resource Slide 5: HMIS (AS-IS) Cont.
Duplication of efforts
Independent data collection requirements of different partners
Non-comparability
Different definitions of indicators among different partners and across regions
Skills in interpreting information & problem solving
appeared weak at all levels
Only 23% of HMIS staff reported receiving in-service training
Expanding and improving use of ICT is a recommended BPR process
75% of WorHO have no HMIS budget
15 Based on your experience, what should be some
of the guiding principles of HMIS reform
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