India launches health management info portal

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India launches health management info portal

The new system envisages enhancing the information flow at various

levels and providing useful and timely inputs for programme

development

Published on 10/21/2008 5:08:12 PM

New Delhi: The Government of India on Tuesday launched the Health

Management Information System (HMIS)

http://www.nrhm-mis.nic.in/center.aspx portal to convert local

health data into real time useful information, management indicators

and trends which could be displayed graphically in the reports.

Launching the portal, Health and Family Welfare Secretary Naresh

Dayal said that real time data provided by the web-enabled

technologies will strengthen the monitoring and would enable policy

makers to make better decisions for public health delivery.

The new system envisages enhancing the information flow at various

levels and providing useful and timely inputs for programme

development, monitoring and midcourse interventions in the policies.

Recognising the need for an information base, one of the core

strategies of the strengthening capacities for data collection,

assessment and review for evidence based planning, monitoring and

supervision, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has

established this dedicated portal for all public health related

information.

The HMIS portal captures data to be collected as per the revised HMIS

formats on a web-based system at the District level so that the

primary data can be easily aggregated and the information and reports

flow quickly to the state head quarters and the Ministry.

The system also enables information to be entered for each facility

so that MIS reporting can be of a better quality.

The application has been developed by the Ministry in technical

collaboration with iBILT Technologies who will also be providing

maintenance and support to the application for the next five years.

The portal will be generating unique intelligence reports using the

advanced SAS Data Warehousing platform and explore and establish new

linkages and advanced analysis for policy initiatives.

http://www.igovernment.in/site/India-launches-health-management-info-

portal/