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The report on the 4th International RHINO Workshop on "Measuring and Improving Routine Health Information System (RHIS) Performance" held in Guanajuato, Mexico March 8-12, 2010 is now available.

The full 4th International RHINO Workshop Report is available below in two separate documents. The first the full report and the second the Guanajuato National Health Information System (SINAIS) Assessment, which is Annex 9 of the report.

Access the 4th International RHINO Workshop Report

Access the Guanajuato SINAIS Assessment

Informed Strategies, Effective Policies, Lasting Solutions

Conference Date: April 10-14, 2011
Place: Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt
Abstract Deadline: December 7, 2010

In April 2011, members of the international community will assemble in Alexandria, Egypt for ICIUM 2011: Third International Conference for Improving Use of Medicines. Many working in the pharmaceutical field will remember the landmark ICIUM 1997 and ICIUM 2004 conferences, which summarized the evolving state-of-the-art policies and interventions to improve use of medicines. To read more on the upcoming conference and to find out about registration information visit the ICIUM 2011 website.

This Annual Report marks the first Annual Report produced by the RHINO/NGO.  It covers our start up activities and progress and talks briefly about future plans and activities.

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April 30, 2010

The Pan American Health Organization and the United States Agency for International Development’s MEASURE/Evaluation Project held a meeting April 27 in Lima, Peru, to launch the new Latin American and Caribbean Health Information Network, RELACSIS. RELACSIS is the Spanish acronym for The Latin American and Caribbean Health Information System Network. RHINO will work closely with RELACSIS to share and bring the latest in HIS news and activities to our members. Look on RHINO’s News and Events to learn more about this exciting new HIS network for Spanish-speaking health professionals and go to www.relacsis.org to visit the new network site.

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March 30, 2010

We are still getting lots of inquiries about the workshop so we will leave the daily summaries up a little longer until the final Workshop Report comes out.

Workshop Participants Inspired to Advocate for Strong Routine Health Information Systems

March 15, 2010

GUANAJUATO, MEXICO – Friday, March 12, 2010 marked the conclusion of the 4th International Routine Health Information NetwOrk (RHINO) Workshop. Participants completed their routine health information system (RHIS) intervention recommendations to be sent to the Guanajuato Ministry of Health.

The 4th International RHINO Workshop was organized from March 8-12, 2010 in Guanajuato, Mexico by RHINO in collaboration with the Mexican Federal Ministry of Health, Guanajuato State Ministry of Health, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, the Pan American Health Organization, United States Agency for International Development, and MEASURE Evaluation. The main theme of the workshop was to discuss how to measure and improve RHIS performance.