Executive summary Although health outcomes have improved in low-income and middle-
income countries (LMICs) in the past several decades, a new reality is at hand. Changing …

High quality data and effective data quality assessment are required for accurately
evaluating the impact of public health interventions and measuring public health outcomes …

Background Weak health information systems (HIS) are a critical challenge to reaching the
health-related Millennium Development Goals because health systems performance cannot …

The exchange and use of health information can help healthcare professionals and
policymakers make informed decisions on ways of improving patient and population health …

E-health encompasses a diverse set of informatics tools that have been designed to improve
public health and health care. Little information is available on the impacts of e-health …

PROBLEM: The World Health Organization has produced clear guidelines for the prevention
of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of an intervention to improve the quality of data used to
monitor the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of the human …

Routine health information systems (RHISs) are in place in nearly every country and provide
routinely collected full-coverage records on all levels of health system service delivery …

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

The provision of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in low and middle‐income countries is a chronic
disease intervention of unprecedented magnitude and is the dominant health systems …