Minister Of Health Budi Evaluates Large-cost Policies Through Health Data Portal

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin. (Between-Puspa Perwitasari)

JAKARTA - Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin utilizes Health Data Portal as an evaluation channel for a number of health policies that cost a lot and have an impact on the community.

"For example, in the first pillar of the primary service's Health Transformation program, we bought hundreds of billions of rupiah to buy an anthropometry tool to 300 thousand posyandu. Research should be carried out quickly, whether it is effective or not," Budi said when delivering directions on the agenda of launching the Portal for the Utilization of Health Data. For Policies followed on the network, Monday, October 16, confiscated by Antara.

According to him, the portal must produce analysis data related to differences in the use of digital-based body weighting tools with conventional ones, along with user coverage.

The portal must also be used to analyze the results of Ultrasonographic (USG) data for pregnant women who involve the role of academics in health-related study programs.

"Used not by the results by the doctor, analyzed by researchers at universities, the community can benefit or not," he said.

Budi also needs an actual report regarding the effectiveness of the additional food delivery program (PMT) to suppress stunting cases.

"Now many types of food are claimed to be animal protein. Whether or not you understand posyandu cadres and the puskesmas. Maybe a lot of health centers don't understand how to use and absorb (budget)," he said.

Budi said the health data utilization portal on the data service site.kemkes.go.id must be inclusive through joint analysis involving community participation and cross-ministerial/institutional participation to generate input for public policy.

"I also ask that this portal be inclusive, together. Don't analyze it for limited policies within the Ministry of Health," he said.

At the same event, Head of the Health Development Policy Agency (BKPK) of the Ministry of Health Syarifah Liza Munira said the health data service portal was the result of the collaboration between the BKPK and the Ministry of Health's Data and Information Center (Pusdatin).

The significant thing that results from this policy, said Liza, is to open access to health data collected by the Ministry of Health to the public.

"The contents are in the form of data related to COVID-19, routine data collection to national surveys such as nutrition, Basic Health Research (Riskesdas), to research on medical equipment facilities," he said.

In addition, catalogs are also available, data request status tracking services, to various documents related to questionnaires, guidebooks, and diagram maps to help data users communicate data more easily.

Liza added that not only processed data, but also raw data can now be obtained using a relatively easy procedure.