Description of Session
The session will share how Tanzania is applying Enterprise Architecture approach to address the health system challenges and ensuring the digital technologies are aligned with Tanzanian health sector goals, vision, mission, and objectives. The Government of Tanzania through the MOHCDGEC continues to promote the use of Technology in the transformation of health service delivery and attainment of UN Sustainable Development Goal particularly SDG No.3 “Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages”. Over ten years, there has been tremendous progress in the development and roll-out of different digital health technologies with the intention to improve health service delivery in the country. However, investments in digital health technologies need to be aligned with health sector business goals, vision, and mission. In order to maximize and improve health outcomes, there are some challenges that need to be addressed holistically, these includes; duplication of efforts, fragmented data systems, as well as inadequate standards that constrain systems interoperability and exchange of data in the health sector. These challenges have cascading effects in the health sector, such as inefficiencies, data inconsistency, increased workload, and data redundancy. In responding to this, the Ministry through the Data Use Partnership (DUP) initiative is working to standardize and harmonize data systems, by developing Tanzania Health Enterprise Architecture blueprint (TZHEA). The TZHEA will define the structure and operation of the health sector. The intention is to determine how the sector can most effectively achieve its current and future objectives using digital health.
