Dear Colleagues,
I’d like to share a new paper published in the Online Journal of Public Health Informatics titled “Potential use cases for the development of an electronic health facility registry in Nigeria: Key informant’s perspectives” which discusses the effort at planning for the transition from a paper based master facility list to an electronic health facility registry in Nigeria.
The abstract of the paper is below and the full paper can be accessed at this link http://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/ojphi/article/view/6350
Abstract
Background
Master facility lists (MFL) maintain an important standard (unique identifier) in country health information systems that will aid integration and interoperability of multiple health facility based data sources. However, this standard is not readily available in several low and middle income countries where reliable data is most needed for efficient planning. The World Health Organization in 2012 drew up guidelines for the creation of MFLs in countries but this guideline still requires domestication and process modeling for each country adopting it. Nigeria in 2013 published a paper-based MFL directory which it hopes to migrate to an electronic MFL registry for use across the country.
Objective
To identify the use cases of importance in the development of an electronic health facility registry to manage the MFL compiled in Nigeria.
Methods
Potential use cases for the health facility registry were identified through consultations with key informants at the Federal Ministry of Health. These will serve as input into an electronic MFL registry development effort.
Results
The
use cases identified include: new health facility is created, update of
status of health facility, close-out, relocation, new information available, delete and management of multi-branch health facility.
Conclusion
Development
of an application for the management of MFLs requires proper architectural analysis of the manifestations that can befall a health facility through its lifecycle. A MFL electronic registry will be invaluable to manage health facility data and will aid the integration and interoperability of health facility information systems.
Kind Regards’
Olusesan Makinde
Viable Knowledge Masters,
Nigeria
Hi Olusesan, Thanks for sharing your recent publication - great work. Would you be interested to present / discuss more about your findings during an upcoming meeting? It would be interesting to be able to have a more fully formed conversation about the current state in Nigeria and where you see things heading. Shoot me a direct message if you are interested and we can get you on the calendar. (steesdale@instedd.org)
While reading this, it struck me that a sort of brief literature review on facility registry efforts could be a helpful tool. If others are interested feel free to let me know too.
Sincerely,
Scott
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On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 2:56:05 PM UTC-5, Olusesan Makinde wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
I’d like to share a new paper published in the Online Journal of Public Health Informatics titled “Potential use cases for the development of an electronic health facility registry in Nigeria: Key informant’s perspectives” which discusses the effort at planning for the transition from a paper based master facility list to an electronic health facility registry in Nigeria.
The abstract of the paper is below and the full paper can be accessed at this link http://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/ojphi/article/view/6350
Abstract
Background
Master facility lists (MFL) maintain an important standard (unique identifier) in country health information systems that will aid integration and interoperability of multiple health facility based data sources. However, this standard is not readily available in several low and middle income countries where reliable data is most needed for efficient planning. The World Health Organization in 2012 drew up guidelines for the creation of MFLs in countries but this guideline still requires domestication and process modeling for each country adopting it. Nigeria in 2013 published a paper-based MFL directory which it hopes to migrate to an electronic MFL registry for use across the country.
Objective
To identify the use cases of importance in the development of an electronic health facility registry to manage the MFL compiled in Nigeria.
Methods
Potential use cases for the health facility registry were identified through consultations with key informants at the Federal Ministry of Health. These will serve as input into an electronic MFL registry development effort.
Results
The
use cases identified include: new health facility is created, update of
status of health facility, close-out, relocation, new information available, delete and management of multi-branch health facility.
Conclusion
Development
of an application for the management of MFLs requires proper architectural analysis of the manifestations that can befall a health facility through its lifecycle. A MFL electronic registry will be invaluable to manage health facility data and will aid the integration and interoperability of health facility information systems.
Kind Regards’
Olusesan Makinde
Viable Knowledge Masters,
Nigeria