GLOBAL HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION PRACTICES
OBJECTIVES
The objective of research is to dissent and review the global (at WHO level) and country specific healthcare management information systems, supply chain and communication practices, identify the gaps in the view of COVID-19 pandemic and provide recommendations to develop a holistic, integrated and pandemic resilience Healthcare Management Information System (HMIS).
SCOPE OF WORK
The scope of work involves following:
- Collection of relevant literature and data from online sources.
- Review of how WHO works for monitoring the health events and emergencies globally – its protocols, systems and procedures.
- Review of literature and data on the health management information system at WHO level – how WHO coordinates its operations at global level, how it gathers data/intelligence from member countries, what sort of IT platforms it uses for the purpose, how it synchronises its health intelligence system with health management information systems of member countries.
- Review of country specific health management information systems – The availability and use of HMIS worldwide, use of technology as a backbone of HMIS, possibilities of standardization and synchronization of country specific HMIS with regional and global (at WHO level) level HMIS.
- Review of country specific health management information systems – The availability and use of HMIS worldwide, use of technology as a backbone of HMIS, possibilities of standardization and synchronization of country specific HMIS with regional and global (at WHO level) level HMIS.
- Review of healthcare communication by WHO and countries – its structure, strengths and weaknesses as well as recommendations to improve.
- Review of the existing system of WHO’s supply chain systems/inter-government supply chain system to address health emergencies/ disease outbreaks.
- Based on above reviews and analyses, conceptualize a holistic, integrated and pandemic resilience global healthcare management information system linked with real-time healthcare information sharing platforms of WHO member countries with latest technology based health warning system.
OUTPUTS
- Descriptive report on how WHO works for monitoring the health globally – its protocols, systems and procedures.
- Descriptive report on how WHO gathers data and monitors global health status.
- A review report on HMIS in various countries.
- A report on health communication worldwide.
- A concept note on Global Health Management Information System.
- A concept report on holistic and integrated global response to international level health emergencies including healthcare supply chains.
- Conceptualizing a national level model health management information system including disease surveillance, health alerts/ warnings, response plan and preventive healthcare interventions.