Hisp.org Website Review

development and implementation of sustainable and integrated health information systems that empower communities, healthcare workers and decision makers to improve the coverage, quality and efficiency of health services. hisp adopts a broad based, developmental approach to capacity building and support of communities, healthcare workers and decision makers for in partnership with ministries of health, universities, ngos and private companies, we support integration of information systems focusing on local solutions for developing country contexts, we subscribe to the free and open source philosophy of sharing our products such as training materials and software solutions.  we promote access to and use of information for action. director research and development dr.  mohammed jeenah director: health information systems support ms. christa van den bergh hisp (health information systems program) is a global network of people, entities and organisations that design, implement and sustain health information systems.  as a network, hisp globally follows a participatory approach to support local management of healthcare delivery and information flows, and was established by the department of informatics at the university of oslo. maintenance of health information systems – a member of the global hisp network. while we use computers and databases to capture and an*lyse information, we recognise that good paper-based data collection forms are the backbone for most computerised systems. since our establishment in 2003, we have been innovating and implementing both paper-based and computerised systems for primary health care (phc) and hospitals mainly in resource constrained settings.  we believe that health care data must be used for management purposes.  we support people who work at all levels in the health system hierarchy from data collectors in clinics and hospitals, to while our team is based across numerous centres in south africa, we also support health information systems development in other countries