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then combined and sent to the provincial health Table 1 – Barriers in the journey of the dataset on the number
department via e-mail (leg 3). Here, aside from of deliveries in healthcare facilities
being kept for the tri-monthly report to the
Ministry(leg 4), data is also transferred to the Jour- Barrier Cause of barrier
Information & Data Center (Pusdatin), which will ney
leg
process the data for the province’s annual health num-
profile and for the Health Ministry data repository ber
KOMDAT.
1 The repeated The lack of a systemized data
loss of data of collection procedure for hospi-
deliveries out- tals and obstetric gynaecol-
side Puskesmas ogists (ob-gyns), especially the
private ones. At the moment
they are not strictly required to
report delivery records to ei-
ther the municipal health de-
partment or Puskesmas and are
not aware of the importance of
data integration.

1 Time ineffi- Competing tasks by the mid-
ciency in data wives. The need for Puskesmas
Fig. 3 – The journey of the dataset on deliveries in healthcare collection midwives to physically visit
facilities hospitals and ob-gyns, sort
each delivery data by address,
Table 1 shows the list of barriers identified along and group each birth according
the legs of the journey. Puskesmas, as the most to the Puskesmas’ working
immediate data producers, often find the activity of boundary area.
collecting data from other sources most challenging. 1 Extra burden of The lack of incentive to reward
This is due to the absence of obligation for private carrying out officers carrying out the ‘addi-
practices and hospitals to cooperate with data entry for tional job’ of data entry.
Puskesmas nearest to their area in providing data on different appli-
deliveries. As a result, each month Puskesmas cations
midwives must go around these locations to fetch
and sort out information manually (barriers on 2 Extra task for The flow of data collection from
hospitals, ob-gyns, and prac-
municipal
Leg 1). Moreover, as the popularity of each health depart- tices outside Puskesmas is not
Puskesmas in the city varies, midwives working in ment officer to clear and binding.
busier Puskesmas often find it harder to juggle sort out data
between their main job of serving patients and from all com-
munity health
processing data. centers, private
clinics, and hos-
The dispersed sources of data also affect the control pitals
of information in the municipal health department.
As they too receive submissions from public 3 The inefficiency - The Ministry and other data
hospitals, the Maternal & Child Officer must host a in preparing users require data to be pro-
and delivering
cessed into different tables and
monthly gathering of Puskesmas’ officers to ensure data in both documents
the distribution of this data. Meanwhile, the need to physical and - Trust for digital registry for-
convert data formats (i.e. from physical to electronic mats among Health department
electronic, and from one table to another) in both forms staff is low, so diminishing
the city and provincial health departments also physical formats altogether is
not feasible
results in inefficiency in the monthly report
preparation.

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