Country Ownership Strategies:Asia Pacific Leadership Forum on

Health Information SystemsWHO WPRO Conference Center

13-16 June, 2011

• It is never too late to offer anything that is good.

• Union is the source of success.

Orientation Norms

Agenda

Mon

day,

13 Ju

ne8:30 Introduction to the Forum HIS Impact Story - Thailand Technical Overview of HIS Overview of the Country Leadership & Ownership Framework Lunch Working Group Session #1 - HIS Ownership and Leadership Closing Plenary 5:00 Session Ends

Tues

day,

14 Ju

ne

8:30 A Collective Vision for HIS Impact Story #2 Creating an Information Culture in HIS Working Group Session #2 – MultiSectoral Engagement and Coordination/Demand for DataLunch Working Group Session #3 – HIS Strengths and Gaps Analysis Closing Plenary5:00 Session Ends

A Collective Vision for HIS

Professor Abul Kalam Azad

HIS Impact StoryStrengthening Vietnam’s HIS through System

Design, Standards and Interoperability

Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Hoang Phuong, Ph.D.Deputy Director, Department of Science & Training

Ministry of Health of Vietnam

• Principle: Strong national HIS improves evidence-based decision-making, informs health policy and planning, enhances monitoring of public health, and can better address the continuity of care of individuals.

• Reality: In many countries, HIS remains fragmented, with little emphasis on aligning various information systems within an integrated national HIS framework. Few staff have health information and health IT skills.

• Goal: To improve understanding of HIS standards so as to increase timeliness, reliability and quality of information flow across systems, and to strengthen human resources for health information.

• Key players: MOH DST, USAID, GIZ, CDC, WHO, Rockefeller Foundation

HIS Challenge

Placement of IT within Ministry of Health

Dept of Science &Training (IT group)

(Hosps., edu. Units, Institutes)

CHITI

MIC

Med. Depts of 63 provinces, cities

Goverment

MOH

Preventive Med. Dept.

Dept of Med. Services Other Depts Planning &

Finance Dept

State Steering Committee on ITChair: Vice Prime Minister

Nguyễn Thiện Nhân

MOH Steering Committee on IT in Health

Chair: Minister. Nguyen Quoc Trieu

IT Dept(Office of MOH)

Cabinet of MOH streering Commitee

Organized a regional workshop in HoiAn, Vietnam 4-7 April, 2011 to:

• Increase awareness of importance for adopting national HIS standards, of different types available and how they can be used, and local applicability.

• Promote awareness, applicability and use of enterprise architecture (EA) approach.

• Develop an inter-operability framework to support the implementation of priority HIS interventions.

Actions Taken

• Vice Minister of MOH of Vietnam (Prof. Nguyen Thi Kim Tien) deemed HIS strengthening a priority for Vietnam and identified several priority issues in 2011 – 2015 on which to focus:

– EMRs and Hospital Information Systems (focusing on developing an exchange data protocol based on HL7 standard).

– Unique Patient Identifiers– National Medical Database– Developing remote health consultation services and examination,

treatment (Telemedicine)– Health Statistics Information Systems– Health Information Technology Human Resources – HIS and IT policy and legislation– Infrastructure

Impact

• Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between MOH and key donors: USAID, WHO, CDC, Rockefeller Foundation etc.

• Establising MOH working group on HIS: Technical group on IT, Policy and legation group, IT human resource group.

• Identified Proof of Concept Pilots within the MOH Department on HIV/AIDS– Interoperability across LIS, PMIS ….

Impact (cont’d)

– Propose establishment of MOH Department of IT.

– Establish IT technical group within MOH to work with donors for HIS development where DST is a coordinator .

– Establish health information technology working group to help MOH with IT applications in medical sector where DST is a coordinator .

– Cooperate with Asia-Pacific countries to develop the standards and inter-operability of HIS.

Next Steps

What to do after June’s Forum in Manila ?

- Countries participating in the HIS forum should establish an international working group that organizes and implements pilot projects within our two regions that address standards and inter-operability of HIS (e.g. HIS data exchange engine based on HL7, DHIS etc.) that can be replicated in multiple countries.

- Identify financial resources from governments, donors, and other organizations to support implementation of pilot projects.

Key Messages

Thank You!

Strengthening Health Information Systems:Creating an Information Culture

Manila, June 14, 2011Theo Lippeveld, MD, MPH, tlippeveld@jsi.com

Country Ownership Strategies:Asia Pacific Leadership Forum on

Health Information SystemsWHO WPRO Conference Center

13-16 June, 2011

Agenda

Wed

nesd

ay, 1

5 Ju

ne8:30 Effective MultiSectoral Collaboration Working Group - Synthesis and Preparation for Report-Outs Inter-Team Reporting and NetworkingStructured Networking Lunch Highlights from Inter-Team Networking Donor Panel – Resources to Support HIS Strengthening Overview of Action Plans Working Group Session #4 – Action Planning5:00 Session Ends

Thur

sday

, 16

June

8:30 Impact Story #3 Working Group Session #5 – Action Planning Continued Working Group - Synthesis and Preparation for Report-OutsLunch Inter-Team Reporting and Networking Highlights of Country Priority Actions Overview of VLDP Evaluations Closing Remarks5:00 Session Ends