Public Health Information Management System For ministry of Health

Abstract

Department of Health Services provides public health services to the community through a network of MOH offices. Medical officer of health is responsible for all the health care activities of his division. He works together with the primary health care workers such as Public Health Inspectors, Public Health Midwifes and Public Health Nursing Sisters. While they discharge their duties they collect a large amount of data and forward to decision makers as periodical reports. These data are very useful in predict and control disease out breaks and planning of health care services in division as well as the country. All these collected data is consolidate and processed manually. Due lack of trained human resources, non availability of time and modern technology and various other constrains, these valuable data and information were underutilized. This proposed system will be designed to address above mentioned constrains and will assist health planners in decision making to improve the health status of the country.

The objective of this study is to Design and provide a management information system to plan, monitor and evaluate preventive health care programmes of ministry of health. This will improve the quality and timeliness of decision making, save resources and provide additional time for service provision and health planning.

Most difficult task was to analyze the existing system as it was very complex large and in certain areas responsibilities were not clearly defined, lot of grey areas. We did a very detail analysis of the system to get a clear under standing of the actual situation and the information need. It helped us to design the system to cater all the user requirements.