Business use case | Challenge | Organizations | Sending systems | Receiving systems | System benefits of HIM | Programmatic benefits |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Improving access and visualization of data from specialized hospitals | It was difficult to get data from large hospitals, since they do not report through DHIS2. There was a need to track the performance in these hospitals on a regular basis, looking at hospital performance indicators, such as, bed occupancy, services delivered, deaths occurring, and revenue collected | Ocean Road Cancer Institute | HINAYA | HDR and dashboard | Currently, 5 hospital EMRs electronically submit data to the HDR. It is a central client level data repository with records from all hospitals | Regular analysis of key indicators such as bed occupancy, deaths, services delivered, revenue collected, clients exempted and reimbursements from insurance. This is helpful in generating analytic insights on hospital performance |
Mirembe Mental Health Hospital | AfyaCare | |||||
Muungano Gateway Mbeya Zonal | Muungano Gateway | |||||
Referral Hospital Kibongoto | eMedical | |||||
Infectious Diseases Hospital | Care2x | |||||
Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute | MEDPro | |||||
Muhimbili Orthopedic Institute | MEDPro | |||||
Muhimbili National Hospital | JEEVA | |||||
Ability to analyze commodity data (eLMIS) alongside service delivery data (DHIS2) | No systematic analysis of services delivered (dhis2) and commodities consumed (eLMIS) | MOHCDGEC | eLMIS HRHIS | DHIS2 | Automated data exchange from eLMIS to dhis2 every month by facility | Provides an analytical tool for managers to allow routine analysis by health facility and districts |
Sharing key health facility details and status from the Health Facility Registry (HFR) with other information systems | Health facility details are constantly changing, such as, status from open to close or change in type, etc. All other systems need to have a list of all operational facilities to ensure supply and receive reports, etc. Every update had to be manually managed for all systems | MOHCDGEC | HFR | DHIS2, eLMIS, VIMS, HRHIS | One-to-many connection. The HFR only needs to be updated once and all updates to other systems are send electronically via the HIM | Health facility updates made in HFR are electronically sent to DHIS2, Vaccine Information Management System, electronic Logistics Management Information System, or eLMIS, and others |
Facilitating the exchange of health commodities stock status from Medical Store Department (MSD) Epicor 9 to eLMIS | Epicor 9 and eLMIS are commodity management systems, however, it was difficult to see stock availability at MSD using Epicor 9 in eLMIS | MSD | E9 | eLMIS | Managers can easily use eLMIS and see of commodities are available at MSD to fulfill requests submitted by health facilities |