Strengthening Data Ownership and Use in Primary Health Care Facilities
Status: Ongoing
Background
Reliable and timely health information is essential for effective planning, performance monitoring, and service improvement. Traditionally, routine health data reporting has relied on processes that place significant demands on local health system structures and can affect the timeliness and accessibility of information.
Recent efforts to strengthen health information systems have increasingly focused on expanding direct access to digital reporting platforms at the facility level, creating opportunities to improve data management processes and support more responsive decision-making.
Project Focus
This collaborative research initiative is examining the effects of facility-level DHIS2 reporting on health information system performance within primary health care facilities in Rivers State. The work explores how direct access to DHIS2 influences reporting practices, data quality, information availability, and the overall functioning of routine health information systems.
The study also seeks to understand whether greater ownership of data reporting processes at the facility level contributes to increased use of routine health information for planning, monitoring, and service improvement.
Why It Matters
Strong health systems depend on the availability and effective use of quality data. As digital health information systems continue to evolve, understanding how decentralised reporting approaches influence system performance is critical for informing future investments and strengthening evidence-based decision-making across primary health care services.