Fozia Anwar, Seema Rizvi, Shafaat A Khan, Ramesh Kumar.
Case Study of district health information system performance from Punjab province of Pakistan.
Pak J Public Health Jan ;5(3):11-5.

Background: The District Health Information System (DHIS) not only allows health services to enter, validate, and analyze routine data, semi-permanent data and survey data but it also helps to record information on health events and to monitor the disease trend, work overload, the availability of human/nancial resources of the hospitals. The prime objective of this study is to identify the needs for improving the gray areas of the system for better health services utilization and performance evaluation. Methods: This research was cross-sectional quantitative study. In this study yearly performance of 29 District Health Quarter (DHQ) hospitals and 84 Tehsil Head Quarter (THQ) hospitals throughout Punjab province of Pakistan have been compared based on the information received through DHIS. SPSS is used to analyze the data. Results: The ndings suggest that efforts by the Provincial and District HIS stakeholders have made the newly introduced DHIS functional in the Punjab province. However certain deciencies have become evident from the results of the study relating to lack of capacity of the data related health personnel and non-use of information for evidence based decision making regarding the planning of various key performance indicators and improving health care delivery system. Conclusions: On the basis of the results of this report signify that training and system strengthening strategies for improving performance may be developed for more efcient health care delivery system in the Districts. Key words: District Health Information System, DHIS, Performance Evaluation, Health Information system

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