Haiti Strategic Health Information Systems (HIS) Program Quarterly Report | July 1, 2021 – September 30, 2021

SISNU aims to integrate Haiti's health records across various digital and paper-based reporting platforms into a single system. The program supports MSPP under three focus areas: (a) strengthening SISNU by addressing information and technical gaps, (b) improving the quality of data, and (c) promoting better system governance and stewardship. This support contributes to the following two project objectives: Objective 1: Build the capacity of the Ministry of Health (MOH) to effectively implement, manage, oversee, and maintain a comprehensive, cross-sector health management information system, and Objective 2: Develop an e-health policy based on principles of host-country ownership, responsible use, and protection of information. The Haiti HIS project made substantial progress toward project objectives in Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Quarter Four (Q4) with continuous delivery excellence. During this period, Haiti HIS completed the first draft for the national digital health policy and sent it to the Unité d'Etudes et de Programmation (UEP) for approval. The project also improved the District Health Information Software (DHIS2) deployment method and optimized the use of project resources both in terms of server hosting cost and utilization. The number of reported tuberculosis (TB) cases on the TB tracker increased from 7,356 cases at the beginning of 2018 to 59,783 by the end of FY 2021 Q4. The project's goal is to build the capacity of MSPP to take ownership of Haiti's comprehensive health information system: SISNU. The project supports the MSPP to strengthen SISNU by integrating health records across digital and paper-based reporting platforms, addressing information and technical gaps, improving data quality, and promoting better system governance and stewardship. Through these continuous improvements, SISNU will provide the information needed by MSPP for better public health decision-making, helping the Government of Haiti to provide higher quality health care and treatment to the Haitian people. The project's technical team and UEP continue to optimize the use of project resources both in terms of server hosting cost and utilization. The project also continues to work with Solution S.A. to automatically integrate HIV data from MESI to SISNU, and with Shifo Foundation to operationalize the integration between the SIGL system and DHIS2 operational. The project's results include improved reporting of data by health facilities, with the number of institutions reporting data increasing from 34 percent to 90 percent during the duration of the project. The project also improved the functionality and system optimization of DHIS2, and facilitated data exchange from other systems to SISNU. The project's achievements contribute to the following two project objectives: Objective 1: Build the capacity of the Ministry of Health (MOH) to effectively implement, manage, oversee, and maintain a comprehensive, cross-sector health management information system, and Objective 2: Develop an e-health policy based on principles of host-country ownership, responsible use, and protection of information.