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HMIS and Quality of Care
HMIS and Quality of Care
SUBMITTED TO:
SUBMITTED BY:
Sanjay Kumar Shah Roll no 322
Sareeta Duwal Roll no 323
BPH,21 st Batch
IOM, Maharajgunj Medical Campus
Maharajgujnj, Kathmandu
Discuss the importance of health management information system and
monitoring the quality of care. Give appropriate examples.
“The quality of technical care consists in the application of medical science and technology
in a way that maximizes its benefits to health without correspondingly increasing its risks.
The degree of quality is, therefore, the extents to which the care provided is expected to
achieve the most favorable balance of risks and benefits.”
The quality of health care is defined as “Health care services that produce desired health
outcomes and fulfill consumer’s needs, with optimum use of available resources, provided
by trained and competent providers as per the national norms and standards with
minimizing the risk for service providers as well as consumers.
Quality health care is about delivering the best possible care and achieving the best
possible outcomes for people every time they deal with the health care system or use its
services. Essentially, it means doing the best possible job with the resources available.
There are various types of tools for monitoring the health care system among them Health
Management Information System (HMIS) is a major tool for measuring the quality of care.
Health information is an integrated part of the national health system. It is a basic tool of
management and a key input for the progress of any society. with the restructure of
Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) and reinstate of Department of Health Services
(DoHS) during the fiscal year 1993/1994 , a central Management Information System
(MIS) was established in order to develop integrated Health Management Information
The primary objective of a health information system is to provide reliable, relevant, up-to-
date, adequate, timely and reasonably complete information for health managers at all
levels (i.e. central, intermediate and local) and at the sharing of technical and scientific
information by all health personnel. At the same time, provide data at periodic intervals,
showing general performance of the health services, and to assist planners. Besides these,
to provide information that can be used to monitor and improve the quality of care is an
important objective of HMIS. The importance of HMIS in monitoring the quality of care
can be highlighted by the following points: