Health Insurance data for health systems strengthening

Description of session

Health financing mechanisms (such as insurance systems) capture a wealth of data on individuals, their families, their treatment, their health care costs, diagnosis patterns, prescribing behavior, cost of service provision, etc. In the workshop we could explore the ways in which such health system data has been/can be used to provide insights for public health system improvements in various settings.
The core data elements captured in openIMIS/health insurance systems are hopefully known to participants and hence some examples of the use of such data could be introduced to trigger a facilitated brainstorming session around different possible use cases. Subsequent to the workshop these could be generalized into analytics requirements from health financing systems. This could contribute towards the development of additional requirements to capture more comprehensive data or enhancement to analytics module or additional interoperability needs. In current times of COVID pandemic the role of health insurance information systems could also be discussed in these given use cases. This is to build on past work documented here: Data Analytics

Target Audience

Ideally health systems practitioners with knowledge of data captured in health insurance systems.

Session Design