Country Ownership Strategies: Leadership Forum on Health Information Systems

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Please note that the HIS Forum Website has moved to www.hisforum.org. This community of practice aims to facilitate the dialogue between all stakeholders of national Health Information Systems: ministries, service providers, donors, NGOs, and citizens. It is an important tool for preparing for the Leadership Forum on Health Information Systems and for continuing the collaboration among all parties in the activities following the forum.

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participation in the workshop

I will appreciate if you can send me information on who can participate
and how?

Best

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Negussie Taffa MD, MPH, PhD
Monitoring, Evaluation & Surveillance Advisor
CTS Global, Inc.
Assigned to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC)-Botswana

posted 22 June 2009 by TaffaN@bw.cdc.gov from email

Dear Colleague,

Thank you or your interest in the HIS Leadership Forum. We appreciate your support of a strong national Health Information System as the basis for better health services and outcomes.

The Forum is the first of several to be held regionally world-wide. Participants in the event are high-level decision-makers who will be designated by the invited institutions, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance, Ministry responsible for Telecommunications, The National HIV/AIDS Commission (or its equivalent) and/or Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM), Institution responsible for vital statistics and/or census or central statistics, and Military Health Services where appropriate. Delegations of up too eight individuals are expected.

Given the country ownership focus of the event the organizers of the forum cannot extend invitations independently from the institutions mentioned afore.

The organizers are now requesting nominations of key individuals (champions, change agents, or leaders) among ministries and national institutions indicated in the announcement, which can contribute to the successful development of their country national HIS.

Also, the event can accommodate up to four donor participants – with budget and program decision authority – from each country. For donor participants, the planners are asking that they identify available resources that would assist delegations to reach their vision for a national HIS. Donors will present their resource availability after delegations have gone through two and a half days of strategic planning to help them identify resource gaps that impinge on their ability to implement a national HIS strategy.

We hope that you will follow the proceedings from the forum closely on our website at http://my.ibpinitiative.org/HealthInformationSystems. Please contact your national HIS taskforce (to be announced on the website) and get engaged in post-forum activities aiming at strengthening your national HIS.

Sincerely,

HIS Leadership Forum Organizing Committee

posted 22 June 2009 by Eckhard Kleinau from web

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