Name: George Odhiambo Okoth
Registration No: W82/89456/2016
Fellowship
Track: Health Informatics
Participating Local Partner (PLP): Siaya County Health
Department
ABSTRACT
The project
provides for an enhanced
user oriented Random
Data Quality Assurance (RDQA)
tool .It forms a valuable
monitoring and
evaluation tool that should be used to elucidate the
national
information system strengths,
and determine country
specific
data quality issues that require to be addressed at
each level.
Its aim is to encourage and
support implementation of the County
EMR in order to ensure good, robust
and reliable quality
health data are produced
from the health facilities. This RDQA
tool provides an enhanced
way of working with health data
and assuring data quality
or planning and decision making.
For this reason, the
tool will aid Data Quality
Assurance processes for
facility, sub-county,
county,
project/ programme, national managers and planners
to determine whether the
type, quantity, and
quality
of health data
needed to support sector decisions
have been achieved.
The tool is the culmination of experiences
and lessons learnt in the design, implementation
and statistical analyses and
use of health data
over
time. The tool is intended to be
updated and used periodically
by all
to verify the quality
of data and employ
interventions to correct existing procedures
and practices that would lead to good
data quality.
The DQA Tool focuses exclusively on
(1) verifying
the quality of reported
data,
and (2) assessing the underlying data management and
reporting systems for standard program-level output
indicators.
The DQA Tool is not intended to assess
the entire. M&E system of a country’s response to HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis or Malaria. In
the context of HIV/AIDS, the DQA relates to component 10 (i.e. Supportive supervision and data auditing)
of the “Organizing
Framework
fora Functional
National HIV M&E System”.
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