The Virgin Islands National Information Systems for Health

Vision, actions, and lessons learned for advancing the national public health agenda

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ID14965285
AutoresIrad Potter (Ministry of Health and Social Development, Tortola, Virgin Islands., autor de correspondencia), Tracia Petersen (Ministry of Health and Social Development, Tortola, Virgin Islands.), Melissa D''Agostino (0000-0002-6083-7713, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas), Marcelo D'Agostino (Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., United States of America.), Daniel Doane (International Consultant, Toronto, Canada.), Patricia Ruiz (Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., United States of America.), Myrna C Marti (0000-0002-7228-6795, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas), Myrna Marti (Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., United States of America.), James Fitzgerald (0000-0003-3400-5515, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., United States of America.), Amalia Del Riego (Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., United States of America.), Federico G de Cosio (0000-0003-4616-7212, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., United States of America.), Marcos Espinal (0000-0002-7258-3212, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., United States of America.)
Año2018
Volumen42
Páginase156-e156
Fecha de publicación2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1020-4989 • E-ISSN: 1680-5348
EditorialPan American Health Organization (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.26633/rpsp.2018.156
PMID31093184
OpenAlexW2892532652
IdiomaEN
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The British Virgin Islands (BVI) Ministry of Health and Social Development (MOHSD) recently identified the need for an updated strategy to advance the country's vision for Information Systems for Health (IS4H) ("Informed decision-making for better health outcomes"). Since the early 1990s, the MOHSD has recognized the importance of having strong conceptual foundations and mechanisms for its information systems, and the need to strengthen the production and use of good-quality health data to enable fulfillment of the territory's health goals. Therefore, in May 2017, BVI requested technical assistance from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to develop a plan/"road map" for strengthening the MOHSD's stewardship capacity for IS4H. This resulted in a bilateral, country-led collaboration between PAHO and the Ministry to carry out two assessments of BVI's National Information Systems for Health (NISH): 1) a rapid assessment to map NISH policy, to develop a short- and medium-term workplan for strengthening and updating it, and 2) a maturity assessment, using PAHO's IS4H Maturity Model tool, to evaluate the implementation of NISH policy thus far and determine next steps. This article describes 1) the steps taken in this bilateral collaboration to update BVI's NISH policy and fine-tune its IS4H vision, including the development of a national plan/road map, and 2) lessons learned

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