Health Management Information System – Tamil Nadu Case

Why Health Management Information System is required?

HMIS is a solution that integrates technology, procedure and procedures, focusing on providing timely
and accurate information helping in aiding decision-making process.

 To enable decision-makers at all levels of health system to identify problem and propose quick
solution.
 Large scale communication of information from one to another.
 Cost Effective and qualitative.

Challenges faced by hospital prior to HMIS

 Inefficient delivery of health services
 Poor quality
 Lack of standardization of health data (manually maintaining of record, cost and time inefficient)
 Costly maintenance of books/record
 Duplication of data entry, retrieval and reliable information
 No real time data
 Poor equipment maintenance and drug supply chain management

Benefits of implementing HMIS

 Simplification of major manual processes such as, slips, indent forms, token etc.
 Automated processes.
 Time & Cost savings
 Reduction in data entry effort
 Removal of duplicate data entry and data privacy
 Readily access to real time data.
 Transparency and stakeholder participation.
 Increased quality and productivity.
 Sustainable, scalable and replicable model.
 Reduction in waiting time for patient.

Impact (Same copy paste from case itself)

HMIS Components:

Clinical & Administrative

Programme
Ancillary Information
Information
Module
Success Factor

 Stakeholders participation in all stages of the project.

 Well informed, planned, strategized implementation of HMIS. (Strategy Plan and Design)
 Continuous monitoring by the top management and periodic reviews of the
performance of the hospital on HMS.
 Innovative and reusability.
 Well managed infrastructure for running the services

Result/Conclusion

 Large user database which can be retrieved on demand across all govt. hospital.
 Patient details can be retrieved by Unique PIN.
 Improvement in drug inventory and equipment inventory.
 Ease of access to system/reports to anyone based on username and password.
 Uniform and centralized reporting platform.

Pyramid (TPS ; DSS; ESS) ??