April 30, 2010
Professionals with responsibility for HIS from Ministries of Health and National Statistics Offices along with international donor representatives and PAHO/WHO advisors attended a technical meeting on April 27, 2010 in Lima, Peru devoted to discuss strategies, best practices and experiences to improve technical cooperation among countries to strengthen HIS and health statistics.
At the meeting, PAHO/WHO and MEASURE Evaluation launched the Latin American and Caribbean Network on Health Information Systems (RELACSIS), www.relacsis.org, a web-based collaborative site that allows HIS professionals to retrieve and share best practices.
Working together with local country offices, Ministries of Health and other partners, PAHO/WHO and MEASURE Evaluation is facilitating coordination and providing technical cooperation to the Ministries of Health of countries in the LAC region in order to improve the HIS, the quality and availability of health statistics, and its use to support evidence-based decision-making in health, and ultimately improve the population's health.
NHIS strengthening in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean is a prioritized technical cooperation activity for PAHO/WHO and MEASURE Evaluation through the USAID funded Regional Initiative for Health Information Systems Strengthening.