Background Untimely, incomplete and inaccurate data are common challenges in planning,
monitoring and evaluation of health sector performance, and health service delivery in many …

Background Health data can be useful for effective service delivery, decision making, and
evaluating existing programs in order to maintain high quality of healthcare. Studies have …

Background Effective planning for disease prevention and control requires accurate,
adequately-analysed, interpreted and communicated data. In recent years, efforts have been …

Background Accurate and high-quality data are important for improving program
effectiveness and informing policy. In 2009 Bangladesh's health management information …

Health facility data are a critical source of local and continuous health statistics. Countries
have introduced web-based information systems that facilitate data management, analysis …

Background Ensuring that data collected through national health information systems are of
sufficient quality for meaningful interpretation is a challenge in many resource-limited …

Introduction Routine health information systems are critical for monitoring service delivery.
District Heath Information System, version 2 (DHIS2) is an open source software platform …

Abstract Information garnered from health information systems (HIS) is essential for
monitoring health, and for evaluating and improving the delivery of health-care services and …

Recent years have seen an increasing focus on the strengthening of Health Information
Systems (HIS) in countries. On the ground, however, HIS development in Africa has proved …

Background: Routine health data can guide health systems improvements, but poor quality
of these data hinders use. To address concerns about data quality in Malawi, the Ministry of …