Description of Session
As responsibilities for health planning and service delivery increasingly devolve to lower levels, it is imperative to get timely and accurate data in the right place at the right time to empower frontline health workers to inform critical program decisions. While dashboards and visualization technology can help facilitate the analysis and availability of routine health data, national health management information systems typically aggregate and display data at the district level and above. It can be a challenge for health workers at lower levels to regularly access information products that synthesize HMIS data. Furthermore, existing information products are not always designed to facilitate decisions at the facility level on individual patient treatment and management, resource allocation, and program performance. Under the CDC Kenya HMIS-II project, Palladium developed dashboards for electronic medical records systems giving HIV providers a snapshot of their clinic performance and to support decision making on the quality of HIV services at the facility. Participants will learn about the benefits and challenges designing, tailoring and implementing visualization solutions that meet the needs of frontline data users.
