Health Informatics 201

Read

1. Part 2. Components and Standards of a Health Information System. Health Metrics Network & World Health Organization. (2008). Framework and standards for country health information systems, 2nd ed. World Health Organization.
2. Marcelo AB & Canero JM. Health information systems. Acta Medica Philippina 2010;44(4):25-29.

Think

1. Read Part 2 of the HMN & WHO document first. This reading is meant to give you a background before tackling the Philippine situation as described by Marcelo & Canero (2010).
2. Does the Philippines have all six components of a country health information system?
3. If you wanted to find information about the Philippine national health information system, where would you look?
4. Try to map the problems Marcelo & Canero (2010) identified to the six components of a country health information system. Did each component have a problem? Marcelo & Canero’s publication is a decade old. What has changed (if at all) since then?

Dig deeper

The driving question asks you to pick the most problematic HIS component in the Philippine setting. Your answer to the driving question will likely be influenced by your current role in the Philippine healthcare system. Elucidate your answer by creating a fishbone diagram.