Makinde Olusesan Ayodeji, Azeez Aderemi, Adebayo Wura
Viable Knowledge Masters, Abuja, Nigeria; Demography and Population Studies Program, Schools of Public Health and Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Department of Health Planning, Research and Statistics, Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, Nigeria.
Online J Public Health Inform. 2016 Sep 15;8(2):e191. doi: 10.5210/ojphi.v8i2.6350. eCollection 2016.
Master facility lists (MFL) maintain an important standard (unique identifier) in country health information systems that will aid integration and interoperability of multiple health facility based data sources. However, this standard is not readily available in several low and middle income countries where reliable data is most needed for efficient planning. The World Health Organization in 2012 drew up guidelines for the creation of MFLs in countries but this guideline still requires domestication and process modeling for each country adopting it. Nigeria in 2013 published a paper-based MFL directory which it hopes to migrate to an electronic MFL registry for use across the country.
To identify the use cases of importance in the development of an electronic health facility registry to manage the MFL compiled in Nigeria.
Potential use cases for the health facility registry were identified through consultations with key informants at the Federal Ministry of Health. These will serve as input into an electronic MFL registry development effort.
The use cases identified include: new health facility is created, update of status of health facility, close-out, relocation, new information available, delete and management of multi-branch health facility.
Development of an application for the management of MFLs requires proper architectural analysis of the manifestations that can befall a health facility through its lifecycle. A MFL electronic registry will be invaluable to manage health facility data and will aid the integration and interoperability of health facility information systems.
主机构列表（MFL）在国家卫生信息系统中维持着一项重要标准（唯一标识符），这将有助于整合多个基于卫生机构的数据源并实现其互操作性。然而，在几个最需要可靠数据以进行高效规划的低收入和中等收入国家，这一标准并不容易获得。世界卫生组织在2012年制定了各国创建MFL的指南，但该指南仍需每个采用它的国家进行本土化和流程建模。尼日利亚在2013年发布了一份纸质MFL目录，希望将其迁移到电子MFL登记册以便在全国使用。
确定在开发电子卫生机构登记册以管理尼日利亚编制的MFL时重要的用例。
通过与联邦卫生部的关键信息提供者协商，确定了卫生机构登记册的潜在用例。这些将作为电子MFL登记册开发工作的输入。
确定的用例包括：创建新的卫生机构、更新卫生机构状态、结业、搬迁、有新信息可用、删除以及管理多分支卫生机构。
开发用于管理MFL的应用程序需要对卫生机构在其生命周期中可能出现的情况进行适当的架构分析。MFL电子登记册对于管理卫生机构数据将非常宝贵，并将有助于卫生机构信息系统的整合和互操作性。
