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A System that plans for the Future will bring about the Future

 Introduction

The InHCc Health Management Information System is used to manage the care of the individual, manage the Healthcare organization, and manage the strategic development of Health Sector Reform policy for the population. The InHCc System is designed to help Health Care Managers understand the role of data in developing solutions to provide effective and efficient health care.

The InHCc Health Management Information System provides process measures as key indicators of the organization’s performance. They help to:

•  Communicate what is important throughout the organization

•  Communicate the results of an action

• Shape behavior – people act according to the way they are measured.

The InHCc System has been developed for managers by providing data to:

• Determine where the organization “Is” by measuring the six key operational dimensions of health care,

  • access

  • effectiveness

  • efficiency

  • equity

  • quality

  • sustainability

• Provide an understanding of the health demands of populations and sub-populations within selected geographic areas,

• Manage the health and well-being of those populations, 

• Manage the day-to-day operation of the organization,

• Develop an understanding of the changes taking place in the population’s health care,

• Provide an on going evaluation of the organization’s performance against its goals

• Provide an on going evaluation of the organization’s performance against National Health Policies

• Provides information to calculate trends and predict the future

• Demonstrate the value of products and services to the community and other stakeholders

• Support Research

Whereas a single measurement of the six key dimensions may tell the organization where it is, it does not tell the organization where it is going. Because in the real world, changes are dynamic and continuous, variables need to be evaluated continuously, over time, and over locations. The InHCc System provides the understanding of these changes, creates value judgments about those changes, and provides the ability to control future changes.

The InHCc System is designed to help discover new variables, indicators, and the relationships between them that are meaningful and useful. It provides the ability to focus on processes and perform complete analysis of these processes.

The InHCc System provides the ability to collected information on the individual at the clinical level where health care costs and outcomes are actually taking place and results can be clearly defined. While the actual detail data is always available, the InHCc also provides for his data to be summarized so that it can be used at any level of management including that of the national level.

The InHCc System provides the ability to build an integrated enterprise wide information store rather than having to develop many individual single purpose data collections. This enables the organization to make decisions based on an understanding of the entire system rather than using rough estimates based on incomplete data.

The InHCc System allows the decentralization of decision making to the lower levels allowing decisions to be made quickly and correctly where they are most effective while at the same time enabling upper level managers to maintain control

The InHCc System provides the ability to understand and manage both the macro and micro perspectives of the organization.

Developing countries have consistently been at a disadvantage in regards to new technology and management training. The InHCc System proposes a system that would not only help developing countries “catch up” but in many cases “leap ahead” of developed countries which may be tired down by their legacy systems.

It is not enough to "monitor and evaluate;" It is not enough to know "...that health has been improved and that programs and the invested resources have had the intended role…" These types of answers can only be determined after the fact and does little to direct the management of resources now for the future.

Management needs to know how to invest resources to improve programs in the “future."  This is a new paradyne for the investment of resource by donors.

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