LESSON 6: HEALTH MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM
HEALTH MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM ✔✔specially designed to assist in the
management and planning of health programme, as opposed to delivery of care
HEALTH ✔✔clinical studies to understand medical terminologies, clinical procedures and database
processes
MANAGEMENT ✔✔these are the principles that help administer the health care enterprise
INFORMATION SYSTEM ✔✔ability to analyze and implement application for efficient and effective
transfer of patient information
HEALTH MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM ✔✔it is a data collection system specifically
designed to support planning, management and decision-making in health facilities and organizations
HEALTH MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM ✔✔set of integrated components and
procedures organized with the objective of generating information that will improve health care
management decisions at all levels of the health system
HEALTH MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM ✔✔provide quality information to support-
decision making at all levels of the health care system in any medical institution
HEALTH MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM ✔✔it needs to be complete, consistent, clear,
simple, cost-effective, accessible and confidential
DATA INPUT ✔✔it includes data acquisition and data verification
DATA ACQUISITION ✔✔it refers to the generation and collection of data through the input of
standard coded formats to assist in the faster mechanical reading and capturing of data
DATA VERIFICATION ✔✔it involves data authentication and validation to ensure quality of gathered
data
DATA MANAGEMENT ✔✔also called the processing phase;which includes data storage, data
classification, data update and data computation
DATA STORAGE ✔✔it includes preservation ad archiving of data
DATA CLASSIFICATION ✔✔also called data organization; which sets the efficiency of the system
