# Health Information Systems and Records Management

> Manage health records and data systems that support patient care, reporting and decision-making while protecting privacy.

- **Provider:** Afriskora Training Solutions
- **Category:** Healthcare Management
- **Duration:** 3 days
- **Formats:** classroom (cities across Africa), live virtual (Zoom/Teams), in-house for teams
- **Certificate:** Afriskora Certificate of Completion, verifiable online
- **Booking:** request dates and a quote; invoice and EFT payment
- **Web page:** https://afriskora.co.za/courses/healthcare-management/health-information-systems-and-records-management
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=health-information-systems-and-records-management

## Overview

Reliable health information supports clinical care, planning and funding. This course covers health information systems such as DHIS2 and electronic medical records, data quality, health records management, coding basics, reporting and analysis, and confidentiality and data protection requirements.

## Who should attend

- Health information officers
- Medical records staff
- M&E officers in health programmes
- Facility and district managers

## Learning outcomes

- Explain health information system components
- Manage paper and electronic health records
- Improve data quality
- Use data for reporting and decisions
- Protect patient confidentiality

## Course outline

### Module 1: Health information systems

- HIS components
- DHIS2
- Electronic medical records
- Interoperability

### Module 2: Records and data quality

- Records management
- Coding basics
- Data quality assessment
- Data verification

### Module 3: Using information

- Indicators and reporting
- Data visualisation
- Confidentiality and POPIA
- Improvement plan