ACDEP Organizes Training for HMIS Administrators
Following the establishment of electronic Health Management
Information System (HMIS) at the first set of five ACDEP partner Health
Centres in Northern Ghana, ACDEP organizes a three-day training workshop
for System Administrators of HMIS. The workshop is to equip the
Administrators with basic information and skills needed to operate the
system and also build their capacity to be able to provide a single
point of communication to all end-users concerning Health Management
Information System issues
at their various clinics. The workshop forms
part
Christiana practising her skills during the training
Photo credit: John Faile
of series of training / capacity building sessions planned to build
capacities of system administrators and end-users to facilitate
successful implementation of the electronic system at the various
clinics to improve efficiency in their work to access, analyze, manage,
and utilize information that is essential to patient care and the
overall healthcare delivery services.
Participants are being provided with hands-on skills in system
installation, the Key members of the Tech Support group based in Tamale
are also participating in the workshop as part of a capacity building
plan to build local capacities to provide technical support services to
the clinics during the implementation phase.
Participants are being provided with hands-on skills on functionality
of the various modules including how to connect to the server, login /
logout, assigning users and user login rights; access and control, how
to add a patient, search for a patient, create an encounter, perform
prescriptions and dispense drugs.
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