The Virgin Islands National Information Systems for Health: vision, actions, and lessons learned for advancing the national public health agenda

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública

Daniel Doane¹  Irad Potter²  Tracia Petersen²  Marcos Espinal³  Amalia del Riego³  Myrna Marti³  Federico G. de Cosio³  Patricia Ruiz³  James Fitzgerald³  Marcelo D'Agostino³ 

[1] International Consultant, Toronto, Canada.;Ministry of Health and Social Development, Tortola, Virgin Islands.;Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., United States of America.;

关键词: Information systems;    public health;    health systems;    British Virgin Islands;    Caribbean region;   

DOI  :  10.26633/RPSP.2018.156

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) Ministry of Health and Social Development (MOHSD) recently identified the need for an updated strategy to advance the country’s vision for Information Systems for Health (IS4H) (“Informed decision-making for better health outcomes”). Since the early 1990s, the MOHSD has recognized the importance of having strong conceptual foundations and mechanisms for its information systems, and the need to strengthen the production and use of good-quality health data to enable fulfillment of the territory's health goals. Therefore, in May 2017, BVI requested technical assistance from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to develop a plan/“road map” for strengthening the MOHSD's stewardship capacity for IS4H. This resulted in a bilateral, country-led collaboration between PAHO and the Ministry to carry out two assessments of BVI's National Information Systems for Health (NISH): 1) a rapid assessment to map NISH policy, to develop a short- and medium-term workplan for strengthening and updating it, and 2) a maturity assessment, using PAHO's IS4H Maturity Model tool, to evaluate the implementation of NISH policy thus far and determine next steps. This article describes 1) the steps taken in this bilateral collaboration to update BVI's NISH policy and fine-tune its IS4H vision, including the development of a national plan/road map, and 2) lessons learned.

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