Health Information System - For Rural Health Planning, Pudukkottai District, Tamil Nadu, India

要旨

Duly capitalizing the virtues of GIS technology and realizing its deserving needs in planning and management of health sector, a Health Information System (HIS) was developed for the rural based Pudukkottai district, Tamil Nadu, India. In the 'HIS', a hierarchy of village wise data was collected on the hospitals, doctors, supporting staff, diseases, patients, etc. A unique information retrieval system was developed using which, the planners / users can access any type of above data, on the village wise availability and reachability of above various medical facilities and data on patients, diseases, etc. Certain special provisions have also been made in HIS' for easy and effective planning. The paper discusses briefly the same.