Abstract: Integrated healthcare information management system involves all levels in the healthcare service delivery and organization, engaging both managements in National and County levels. Health information system is the process of generating and managing information to guide evidence-based decision making in the provision of health and related services at the national and county level. All healthcare providers are obligated to report on information emanating from their activities through established channels in a manner that meets safety and confidentiality requirements. Globally, political instability and the emerging regional and national macroeconomic challenges triggered by the global economic downturn, together with climate change, have had an adverse impact on health. Nationally, Kenya as a country still faces health challenges, especially concerning children, from whom under-nutrition is the single greatest contributor to child mortality. Many people are also exposed to a heavy and wide-ranging disease burden, partly because of the county’s unique geographical and climatic conditions. The difficult, disaster-prone environment in the arid and semi-arid regions of the country and the lush but malaria-prone regions in another part of the country, all have unique health risks associated with them. Kenya also faces problems of emerging diseases like Chikungunya and re-emerging diseases such as Bird flu and many others without forgetting HIV/AIDS, Tb. Also the country faces an increasing health burden from injuries and non-communicable diseases which are exacerbated by the negative underlying social health determinants in the country. Political instability in Eastern Africa region and the subsequent in-migration of a refugee into Kenya has the results of increasing the demand for health services in the country and raising the risk of spreading communicable diseases. Limitation in the regulatory and resource capacity and utilization have constrained the health sectors ability to harness fully the existing and emerging technology to manage most of the direct causes of ill health and death the unionization of health workers and recurrent industrial action also present new demands and challenges to the sector.
Keywords: health risks, Health information system, health services, health sectors, child mortality.
Title: A REVIEW OF INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WORKFLOW IN PUBLIC HOSPITALS IN KENYA
Author: Dr. Muchelule Yusuf Wanjala, Mr. Peter Njoroge Njunguna, Jacob Misiko Neyole
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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