The laboratory information system needed to be integrated within the workflow of the busy regional and central laboratories.
Consensus on key indicators, or minimum essential data, that a malaria elimination information system needs to capture is fundamental.
Such an information system needs to link people and resources in ways that transcend geography and discipline, and that builds on existing expertise, interpersonal relationships, and trust.
To support these priorities, an effective, functioning human resource information system needs to be in place, which can be used to monitor staff distribution, client/patient numbers and thereby staff workload, and inform implementation of the Human Resources for Health Strategic Plan.
In Canada, the federal government, through a Canadian Institutes of Health Research grant has recently invested in an Emerging Team to develop such a national network and the information system needed to support it.
Information systems need to be improved in a way that informs policy on the health workforce.
Information systems need to be improved in a way that informs policy on the health workforce, because at present there is a serious problem with the quality of data, especially on staffing of primary care services.
To support collaborative interactions, information systems need to support awareness: Collaborators must attain and maintain reciprocal awareness of shared activity in order to coordinate effectively.
Information systems need to be improved in order to obtain precise incidence information.
Second, district public health information systems need to generate relevant information for the local planning, management and monitoring of services.
Lippeveld et al. (1992) suggests that information systems need to follow the existing communications channels of organizational hierarchy.
