Health Information Department

WHO ARE WE?

The department comprises of the following;

• Health information officer-Head of Department
• Health information Assistants
• Clerks

OBJECTIVES

The department maintains the hospitals daily data flows and aligns itself with the hospitals overall objective of providing quality health to all.

WHAT DO WE DO?

• Coding of discharged patients according to their diagnosis as indicated on the front sheet
• Data capturing of patients data i.e. demographic data, date of admission diagnosis etc. in the hospitals data base
• Keeping records of patients admitted, discharged, transferred to other hospitals and deceased on a daily basis
• Statistics –Analyzing raw data and converting it into useful information, daily,weekly,monthly,quarterly and annually.
• Issuing of birth confirmation of every child born at the hospital to access a birth certificate.it is a right of every child to have a birth certificate.
• Keeping of patients investigation results
• Ensuring that each patient or client maintains as single record in the admission data base
• Filling and retrieving of files. Files are systematically archived using the patients hospital number for easy retrieval.