Re-imagining primary healthcare in the light of health data management in Nigeria: the roles of Health Information Management Professionals

Abstract

Quality health data is essential to goodhealthcare processes and the lack of it might meanpoor healthcare. No wonder, the foremostAmerican by birth and later, Australian byadvanced practice, Lady Edna Kal Huffmanemphasized the essentials of good health datamanagement in her much sought after bookMedical Records Management. In her wisdom andscholarly work, Huffman berated poor health dataas she opined that it may lead to poor healthcaredelivery1. Though late, her works have beenrevised, reprinted and republished severally. Shewas indeed our forebear in scholarly works inhealth information management.