The DC4IDP Health Information System HIS: An information system including people, processes and resources that collect health information and then process and disseminate that information in an organization. The HIS is the primary source of information in the health sector. Its purpose is not to accumulate information but to improve decision-making. is a database of disease occurrences amongst the IDP IDP: Internally displaced persons are "persons or groups who have been forced or were forced to flee or leave their homes or places of habitual residence, by reason of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict , situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural disasters or man, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized state. "(Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, Introduction, para. 2) (Ref.: IDMC) Population. Data is collected in the field by existing health centres in the IDP camps. The information is then transmitted to Goma where it is compiled and tracked. Weekly compilation of this information allows the HIS team to quickly alert the relevant agencies and authorities in case any outbreaks occur.

There are two main reasons to justify the implementation of HIS in the IDP emergency areas:

• The difficulty of extracting health information about IDPs from the database of the National (government) Health Information System in North Kivu.
• The weekly reporting system (compared to a monthly one) which supports early warning.

The purpose of the HIS HIS: An information system including people, processes and resources that collect health information and then process and disseminate that information in an organization. The HIS is the primary source of information in the health sector. Its purpose is not to accumulate information but to improve decision-making. is to ensure that all humanitarian actors and health care service providers working with the IDP population are providing care based on policy and national/international standards which is most easily done with detailed and timely information on health issues.

The HIS main objectives:

• To support data collection and data management in the Health Areas that host IDPs camps
• To supports the sharing and use of health data as relates to agencies operating in health, BCZ and Cluster / IPS (NHIS)
• To alert the humanitarian community on the health-related implications of the movements of camp-based IDPs in coordination with the database and the GIS teams.

The support of HIS is concretely to:

• Training of staff of health facilities, NGOs and Central Office on the use of hard copies and databases Excel and Access the SIS;
• Provide tools and printed SIS (Article 43 includes checklists, forms, records of weekly reports);
• Share the data collection software, data processing and user guides with the Office of HIS central area and support agencies;
• Share statistics from the profiling of IDP camps and demographics section DC4IDP.
• Produce reports on morbidity, reproductive health, and nutrition on the format of the National Health Information System of the DRC for the health facilities serving the IDPs.
• With a weekly reporting system and internal epidemiological surveillance, the HIS is an early warning system, which may help counter an outbreak quickly.

In 2009, the HIS team implemented the health information system in six pilot health centers, two in the geographic health area of Birambizo. A January 2010 workshop on the common platform for data management regarding the health emergency in North Kivu was attended by organizations of the health cluster including WHO, UNHCR, UNOPS and the Provincial Inspectorate of Health for North Kivu. And now since early April 2010 coverage has been extended to all health facilities in the Birambizo area and effort is being made to get all the health centres fully operational on the system. Birambizo was identified as a priority area but five other areas will be covered gradually.