HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM DEFINATION: THERE ARE MANY DEFINATIONS OF HIS 1. Health information has been defined as, information about people’s health and how the community, government and non-government organizations use the information to plan and provide health care services 2. Health care information describes the incidence, prevalence and cause of major diseases. It also tells us about the availability and effectiveness of curative services. e.g. the hospital activity analysis can tell us how effective curative services are by looking at the average length of stay and the status of the patient when being discharged 3. It refers to organized and interpreted data about health status, resources, activities and events as related to health. 4. H.I.S is also being defined as a system that collects and represents health information that is responsible for the creation and maintenance of a data base.