Evaluation of Paramedic Education Information System Implementation toward Policy Making at the Mataram Health Polytechnic
ABSTRACT
A. Haris, Hari Kusnanto
Background: Health Polytechnic is technical manager unit for professional education in diploma degree which has functions of developing professional education, research, and community service, developing of civitas academica and administrative matters. The paramedic education information system (PEIS) is education management and information system applied in the Mataram Health Polytechnic and there are some boundaries and limitations during the implementation. Poor integration of data and information distribution and lack of trained human resources in managing the PEIS arise information system of activity report for internal and external affair is run separately. The intranet network has not connected yet so that each department and study program has their own information system in activity report. This problem brings negative impact to the information quality of the PEIS in supporting policy making about education management at the Mataram Health Polytechnic.
Objectives: This study aimed to identify the PEIS implementation, the quality of information, and its benefits for policy management at Mataram Health Polytechnic.
Methods: This study used descriptive-qualitative method with case study approach. This method was used to identify problems during the PEIS implementation based on field collecting analysis, and to describe the actual problems at the Mataram Health Polytechnic.
Results: Components of the PEIS were quite representative in policy making at Mataram Health Polytechnic. However, the implementation was not optimal then resulted incomplete and inaccurate information. Beside that, this raised several problems which derived from inattention of human resources to utilize the PEIS. Unclear procedures in data and information management caused system in departments, study program and polytechnic run vertically and separately. The impact was low quality of information that was used in policy making and management.
Conclusion: Policy making and management at the Mataram Health Polytechnic have not used information from the PEIS optimally yet because of the low information quality.
Keywords: Evaluation, Implementation of Paramedic Education and Information System, Information Quality, Policy.
Evaluation of Implementation of Transaction Information System in Puskesmas in Bantaeng Regency South Celebes Province
Sudarianto, Haryanto, Anis Fuad
Background: Health information system is one of four health development major strategies. Health Office of South Celebes Province has tried to implement an electronic information system in local government clinics (Puskesmas) which is named Puskesmas’ Transaction Information System (SITRAPUS) in Bantaeng District since 2006. However, its performance and effectiveness have not been evaluated yet.
Objectives: The research aimed to evaluate the implementation of SITRAPUS in Bantaeng District from aspects of development process, the output, the barriers and entries during the implementation.
Methods: This was a qualitative study. The data was gathered by in-depth interview and observation in local government clinics, Bantaeng District Health Office, and Health Office of South Celebes Province.
Results: From the development process, the result showed that operator was not too involved in the process of SITRAPUS designing, the use of SITRAPUS was not well socialized so that the users were not familiar with the system, there was no a division which managed the information system, less supervisory, and there was no technical support for the SITRAPUS maintenance. The SITRAPUS output were disease reports but they were not accurate and irrelevant with the organization needs. Nevertheless, the users felt that the system could make their works easier, especially in data searching. The SITRAPUS output were used by the local government clinics in calculating the retribution, meanwhile data access to the district was not up to date and timely.
Conclusions: The SITRAPUS implementation in Bantaeng District was not optimal, because this implementation did not accordance to the system development life cycle and the output was only report.
Keywords: evaluation, information system, local government clinics