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Evaluation toolkit for integrated health information systems

Purpose
The Evaluation Toolkit for integrated health information systems provides information systems managers with guidance and aids for developing comprehensive evaluation plans. Effective evaluation can help garner community support, lead to quality improvement, and contribute to project buy-in among an agency’s executive leadership.

Project summary
The Evaluation Toolkit provides tools and guides for evaluating the effectiveness of your integrated health information system programs. The toolkit’s products and resources are practical, usable at any stage of program development, usable by single system or larger integrated information systems, and not limited for use by child health integrated systems.

While the Toolkit is not meant to be a complete and comprehensive evaluation plan for integrated information systems, it does outline suggestions for incorporating evaluation into each stage of development and lists tools and guides that assist in the process of evaluation.

Client and funding source
Connections is supported through a cooperative agreement awarded to the Public Health Informatics Institute by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau (HRSA/MCHB).

Contents of the Evaluation Toolkit
•	Introduction to the evaluation toolkit for integrated health information systems
•	Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health
•	Evaluation tools and guides for integrated health information systems
•	Acronyms related to integrated health information systems
•	Glossary of commonly used terms for integrated health information systems
•	Generic Project Charter: Elements that can be included in an integrated health information systems (IHIS) project charter
•	Stakeholder Analysis Methodology
•	Stakeholder Analysis Worksheet
•	Generic Logic Model for Integrated Child Health Information Systems (ICHIS): Elements that can be included in an integrated health information systems (IHIS) project logic model
•	Diagram of health transactions base (Colorado)
•	Regional health information exchange model (Colorado)
•	Data flow chart for integrated child health information systems (Rhode Island)