Assessment of Health Data Management in Primary Health Care of East Azerbaijan

The goal of health information system is to improve the data quality used in decision making from service providing to policy making. Health service-rendering hubs play a crucial in health information system. The study is conducted to determine of current health data management in health centers.

The conducted research is based on a descriptive and cross sectional study in health centers in East Azerbaijan province. 150 health centers from the province are selected from the health care list with systematic sampling method at random.130 physicians and 220 health experts in motherchild health care as well as environmental health filled and submitted the questionnaires. The data are analyzed in SPSS 16 software.

On average, 62.8% of health center managers are trained initially in regard to statistical forms. 55.5 percent of health centers have not access to scientific resources in data management. Every physician has defined 54.8 percent of health indicators correctly. 85 percent of physicians are of the opinion that the data of vital horoscopes are reliable. 80.8 of physicians and 81.6 percent of experts are of the opinion that health service providers have registered the data correctly. On average 48 percent of the physicians are aware of statistical forms.

Due to the significance of service-rendering health centers in optimum performance of health information system, drawing up a proper draft of primary health care information system is of great importance. Consequently, performance indicators, the procedure of calculation and analytic method should be defined.