Overview
To realize the Information Revolution Agenda and Roadmap, the Ministry of Health is developing and implementing several digital health systems. However, the development of these systems shall be led and managed by competent and trained Health Information System (HIS) workforces with Project Management (PM) knowledge and skills. To support this, the University of Gondar in collaboration with the Jembi Health system and the Ministry of Health is developing course materials on HIS PM. The course is designed for new and middle-level HIS project managers to support the design, development, and implementation of digital health systems.
Project Goals
- Develop Continuing Program Development course
- Equip trainees with HIS PM knowledge and skills
- Improve management of digital health interventions
- Focus on better documentation
- Assist new and mid-level project managers
- Learn best practices in HIS project lifecycle
- Ethiopia HIE Policy for Digital Health Systems
- Ethiopia HIE Standards for Digital Health Systems
Priority Activities
- Conducting a need assessment
- Organize a course material development workshop: In the workshop, facilitators’ guide, participants manual, and PowerPoint slides were developed
- Facilitate a review workshop for accreditation
Out Puts
- Needs assessment report completed
- Facilitator guide has been developed
- Participant manual compiled
- Accredited document authorized
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