Tuesday, 17 December 2019

6th National Workshop cum CME on Health Systems Strengthening Concluded at PGI


By Tricitynews
Chandigarh 17th Dec:- 2nd day of five-day “6th National Workshop cum CME on Health Systems Strengthening “concluded today.
Prof T. Sundararaman, Global Coordinator for People’s Health Movement and Adjunct Faculty, Centre of Technology and Policy-IIT Madras chaired the session on Health Management Information System. He highlighted the evolution of HMIS system that faced many challenges with passing time and suggested to take innovative and creative solutions after reading theory and leanings from positive as well as negative experiences.
Dr. D. K Ojha Deputy Director General (Stats) MoHFW explicitly explained HMIS indicators and their linkage with Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2030. He explained ongoing processes to overcome the challenges faced for. Eg. The challenges of internet connectivity in remote areas is now on board and will be replaced with Internet Optical Fiber by April 2020. Dr. U. M. Jha, Sr. Consultant MoHFW elaborated latest features of new HMIS on Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) will now be rolled out for triangulation of all the soft ware’s.
Dr. Tanica, Additional professor, PHFI elaborated critical elements of data for decision making and challenges and gaps for using the data. Dr. Devaki Nambiar, Program Head, from George Institute for Global Health and his team explained the dimensions of inequality and monitoring health inequalities that involves selecting health indicators and talked about data requirement for inequality analysis followed by hands on training for equity analysis.
Dr. Chandrakant Laharia from WHO India talked about Health System Strengthening and UHC.

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