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HISP India, Society for Health Information Systems Programmes |
| The Health Information Systems Program (HISP), India, is an important node in the global HISP network initiated by the University of Oslo, Norway in 1994. This network, now globally acknowledged to be a premier one of its kind, currently includes various countries such as South Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Tanzania (including Zanzibar), Botswana, Malawi, Nigeria, Zambia, India and Vietnam. The HISP network seeks to strengthen Health Information Systems (HIS) within these countries through five key mechanisms: design, development, and implementation of free and open source software; directly working with the health services in respective countries to deploy HIS within their health services to strengthen the informational basis for public health care delivery; large scale |  | and intensive capacity building for health staff at all levels with a key focus on “using information to support local action”, and also through formalized professional masters programs in HMIS; institutional development at the national and state levels around M&E activities for MDG4; and, the international sharing of best practices by drawing upon and contributing to HIS related knowledge across developing countries.
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