Unique Health Identifier Assessment Tool Kit

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• Publisher: Asian Development Bank
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9789292611651
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Medical Law
• Index: Law

Unique health identifiers help improve quality and continuum of care, strengthen surveillance of communicable diseases, eradicate diseases, and optimize provider and payer transactions in health financing schemes. They are important enablers for achieving Universal Health Coverage. Through this tool kit, governments and experts will learn how to assess the existing legal, policy, and institutional framework; information and communication technology infrastructure; and current use of identifiers relevant for the health sector, to inform policy decisions on advancing unique identification in the health sector.

MODULE 1 LEGAL, INSTITUTIONAL, AND POLITICAL FRAMEWORK

This part of the tool kit aims to retrieve information on the legal, institutional, and political framework. These frameworks are important conditions to build robust, secure, and well-functioning unique identification in the health sector. The institutional setting contributes to well-managed and coordinated implementation of a unique health identifier for health purposes. Laws and regulations on data privacy and protection that regulate how state institutions may use data are required and need to be adapted to the age of electronic storage and ICT usage. They are important conditions to protect individuals from inappropriate privacy intrusion, data misuse, and discriminatory practices. Institutional checks and balances are important accountability and monitoring mechanisms of institutions involved in unique identification.

FIGURE 5: Legal, Institutional, and Political Framework

Source: Authors.

Module 1.1. Legal and Policy Framework

Module 1.1. assesses the existing legal and policy framework for registration and identification that support access to health care services. It includes questions on the legal framework on data privacy.

Laws and regulations on data privacy and protection are important conditions to protect individuals from inappropriate privacy intrusion, data misuse, and discriminatory practices.

Module 1.2. Stakeholder Mapping

Module 1.2. maps institutions involved in registration and identification. It further maps coordination mechanisms between different institutions.

This section of the tool kit can be valuable for anyone who wants to get an overview of actors important in health and health sector-related registration and identification systems.

The institutional capacity of individual institutions can be assessed in Module 1.2.1. Donors supporting activities with regard to health and health sector-related registration and identification systems can be mapped in the optional Module 1.A.

Please list institutions (e.g., hospitals, health centers, vertical disease programs, insurance agencies etc.) involved in the administration of registries for the following areas:

Module 1.2.1. Institutional Capacity Assessment

This module assesses an individual institution’s capacity identified in module 1.2. It can be applied to a ministry, a department, a health facility, or any other actor identified as important for health and health sector-related registration and identification systems. For countries considering introducing a unique health identifier, it also allows assessing the capacity of a particular institution to implement the scheme.

Module 1.A. Donor Support Mapping – Optional

The optional Module 1.A. maps donors supporting activities in health sector and health sector-related registration and identification systems.

MODULE 2 ICT INFRASTRUCTURE

This chapter provides an overview on the general usage of ICT and maps to which extent ICT has been introduced for different...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Module 1: Legal, Institutional, and Political Framework
• Module 2: Ict Infrastructure
• Module 3: Health Sector and Health-Related Registries and Identifiers
• References
• Footnotes
• Back Cover