Implementation Guide To The Routine Health Information System Toolkit

Implementation guide to the routine health information system toolkit

The routine health information system (RHIS) is an integral part of the overall national health information system (HIS). RHIS collects health service data directly from the health facilities, where they are produced regularly by the healthcare workers and community health workers.

Routine health information system and health facility data for neglected tropical diseases

The heterogeneity of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) has resulted in diverse and complex data management pathways, leading to duplication, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities. To address these issues and maximize system investments, the Global NTD Programme collaborated with the WHO routine health information system (RHIS) toolkit initiative. This partnership developed guidance for collecting, reporting, and managing NTD data through health facilities. The NTD RHIS toolkit component includes a general guidance document, disease-specific documents, and guidance on logistics information management systems for medicines and health products. This general guidance document provides an overarching description of the NTD indicators required to monitor programme progress in alignment with the road map and its related strategic companion documents including the monitoring and evaluation framework (“the M&E framework”). Its main purpose is to provide high-level concepts for NTD programme design for data management and use for health information system managers wherever NTD data are aggregated, through the hierarchy of administrative levels. It is intended for use by members of the health workforce working with NTD data, particularly health workers and data clerks involved in first-line data collection and reporting at peripheral health facility-level, and district-level health management information officers.

Malaria surveillance assessment toolkit