Health Information Management Unit - HIMU
Information Management?
Health Information Management Unit (HIMU)
Information Management?
Information, as we know it today, includes both electronic and physical information. The organisational structure must be capable of managing this information throughout the information lifecycle regardless of source or format (data, paper documents, electronic documents, audio, video, etc.) for delivery through multiple channels that may include cell phones and web interfaces.
Information management (IM) is the collection and management of information from one or more sources and the distribution of that information to one or more audiences. This sometimes involves those who have a stake in or a right to that information. Management means the organisation of and control over the structure, processing, and delivery of information.
Given these criteria, we can then say that the focus of IM is the ability of organisations to capture, manage, preserve, store and deliver the right information to the right people at the right time.
Information management environments are comprised of legacy information resident in line of business applications, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Electronic Records Management (ERM), Business Process Management (BPM), Taxonomy and Metadata, Knowledge Management (KM), Web Content Management (WCM), Document Management (DM) and Social Media Governance technology solutions and best practices. Information management requires the adoption and adherence to guiding principles that include:
Information management (IM) is the collection and management of information from one or more sources and the distribution of that information to one or more audiences. This sometimes involves those who have a stake in or a right to that information. Management means the organisation of and control over the structure, processing, and delivery of information.
Given these criteria, we can then say that the focus of IM is the ability of organisations to capture, manage, preserve, store and deliver the right information to the right people at the right time.
Information management environments are comprised of legacy information resident in line of business applications, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Electronic Records Management (ERM), Business Process Management (BPM), Taxonomy and Metadata, Knowledge Management (KM), Web Content Management (WCM), Document Management (DM) and Social Media Governance technology solutions and best practices. Information management requires the adoption and adherence to guiding principles that include:
- Information assets are corporate assets. This principle should be acknowledged or agreed upon across the organisation; otherwise any business case and support for IM will be weak.
- Information must be made available and shared. Of course, not all information is open to anyone, but in principle, the sharing of information helps the use and exploitation of organisational knowledge.
- Information the organisation needs to keep is managed and retained systematically. In other words, the retention and archiving of information. If you save a document today, you expect it to be secured and still available to you tomorrow.
Health Information Management Unit (HIMU)
Health Information Management Unit (HIMU) of RDHS Kalmunai is located at RDHS office Kalmunai which functions under the guidance of Regional Director of Health Services following standards and guidelines (S&G) formulated by the Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka.
HIMU was established in all decentralised institutions with paying authority of the Ministry of Health, such as Line Ministry Institutions, Campaigns, PDHSS, RDHSS, and Teaching and Provincial Hospitals, in2014 under the directive issued by the Health Secretary.
HIMU was established in all decentralised institutions with paying authority of the Ministry of Health, such as Line Ministry Institutions, Campaigns, PDHSS, RDHSS, and Teaching and Provincial Hospitals, in2014 under the directive issued by the Health Secretary.
A written directive was issued in writing to this effect on 24/02/2014 by the then Health Secretary Dr. Nihal Jayathilake. It is clearly stipulated in the said directive that each HIMU must be headed by a Medical Officer or Dental Surgeon Health Informatics (MO/DS-HI) as in-charge of the unit assisted by required supporting staff as per requirement with other required resources that needed for a smooth functioning of HIMU.