Health Information System Development Plan for Egypt: Phase 1 HIS 2000

This report was developed to outline broad strategy, create a common vision for developing a new core health information system, and describe specific technical development tasks in detail. The new information system must be designed from the top down based on information demand. This should focus development on clear data collection and processing priorities, eliminate collection of unused data, and produce an efficient and relevant system. Information demand is being generated and defined by developing and testing an Executive Information System (EIS), beginning with a very limited set of key indicators and drawing data from the existing HIS. [from abstract]