HMIS Tools Review Workshop
To enable evidence-based decision making in laboratory service delivery, CPHL/UNHLS started the process of standardizing facility-level data tools as part of a broader strategic initiative of establishing a reliable Health Laboratory Information Management System (HLIMS). This week, from 16th to 20th April a team of officers representing the laboratory fraternity engaged in intense deliberations while finalizing the standardization of the facility level set of HLIMS paper-based tools at Jinja Nile Hotel. The standardized facility-level HLIMS tools are to be submitted to the MOH Division of Health Information (DHI) for consolidation into the national HMIS tools. These standardized tools include:
- Routine Laboratory Testing and Referrals
- Laboratory request form
- Sample rejection form
- Laboratory results report form
- Sample referral form
- Sample reception register (for capturing records on sample collection, rejection, and referral)
- Hub register
- The following existing daily activity registers were also reviewed
- HCIII Daily Activity Register
- HCIV and General Hospital Daily Activity Register
- HIV consumption log
- CD4 and VL register
- TB request form and register
- Hematological indices register
- Clinical Chemistry register
- Blood bank register
- Equipment and Logistics Management
- Equipment inventory register
- Equipment breakdown report form
- Equipment breakdown register
- Equipment maintenance log
- Routine Equipment Service Log
- Order form for HIV test kits
- Order form for laboratory reagents, consumables, and supplies
- Biosafety and Biosecurity
- Biosafety and biosecurity incident report form
- Biosafety and biosecurity incident register
- Microbiology and AMR surveillance
- Microbiology request and results report form
- Microbiology daily activity register
- Microbiology national level periodic report
- WHO GLASS AMR report
- Periodic Reporting
- Monthly facility-level laboratory report
- Quarterly facility-level laboratory report
