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...

Today, the e-Health landscape in most LMICs and particularly Uganda is characterized by fragmented and piecemeal applications deployed by multiple organizations. Worse still, these eHealth systems are usually custom-built using different architectures and technologies, with interoperability and secu...

The use of technology has the ability to improve the quality and efficiency of health care by rapidly providing health care providers with the information they need to effectively manage their patients. One crucial source of information for health providers is laboratory results. As more low- and mi...

We’d like to discuss how developing countries can transition to a digital system to promote transparency and accountability, while reducing corruption within health systems. As part of this discussion, we’ll present our experience working with USAID on the HIV Reform in Action (HIVRiA) and Healt...

There has been remarkable progress in development and implementation of electronic medical records (EMR), laboratory information systems (LIS), and logistics management information systems (LMIS) in resource-limited settings. However, the siloed nature of many implementations means there is tremendo...

Several countries have adopted OpenHIE, a multi-layered high-level architecture for information exchange. Similarly, HL7 fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) is an emerging healthcare standard built on web standards. FHIR is open source with vibrant private support from Apple, Microsoft,...

This session will introduce the attendees to the innovative low-resource design of the cloud-based, mobile, and universally accessible Electronic Health Record for refugees: Sijilli. The health information of Sijilli is originally collected on a data entry-friendly software. The health data includes...

MEASURE Evaluation has developed a One Health electronic platform in Burkina Faso, in partnership with three ministries, to track, prevent, and respond to zoonotic and epizootic disease outbreaks. Using DHIS 2 tracker, the platform does not aim to focus on data aggregation, but instead translate not...

With the current global technological advancements, electronic HIS are essential components of health data processing, sharing and use. In recent years, Ethiopia has seen proliferation of eHealth applications developed and introduced by different stakeholders to support the information needs for hea...

As funding to strengthen digital health and health information systems (HIS) has grown over the past few years, so has the development of tools to assess where a country is on the journey to optimized digital health systems and HIS interoperability. Countries benefitting from external technical and ...

LMICs are rapidly moving towards and wanting a holistic view of their population’s health and with eHealth strategies being revised to ensure that interoperability and data exchange are strongly included. To date, there has been a trend of “isolated” digital health intervention focus such as �...

Large -scale implementation of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) in healthcare continue posing challenges in controlling costs, standards, and coordination of diverse stakeholders. Health Enterprise Architecture (HEA) refers to the structured alignment of health sector needs to ICT impl...

For digital health to be successful, its supporting architecture should be easy to implement, operationalize, and maintain over time. This begs the question if the current standard for digital health architecture inherently supports or inhibits reaching the goal of stronger health systems and improv...

The Open Health Information Mediator (OpenHIM) is an open-source software application designed to ease interoperability between disparate information systems by providing a single point of entry into the services of a health information exchange (HIE). It provides secure communications and data gove...

How can you create a national health worker registry when competing databases already exist? One way is to create a shared national repository that draws a minimum data set from each database and shares back this larger, more comprehensive database back with the original systems. Sounds easy, eh? We...

In 2016 USAID convened a co-creation workshop in Accra, Ghana that resulted into the Regional Action through Data (RAD) project. The project focused on coming up with innovative ways of using data to influence decision making at facility, national and regional levels. The two partner regional blocks...

Currently, information about immunization is collected at facility and community through two separate forms and entered separately into the national reporting platform with attendant burden for data entry and potential for double count. This two data entry and management are managed by two governmen...

MEASURE Evaluation has used the DHIS 2 to build and/or strengthen health information systems in many parts of the world, notably in six sub-Saharan African countries. MEASURE’s work demonstrates comfort with the DHIS 2 technology, stakeholder engagement and ownership, contributions to capacity bui...

DHIS2 is the most widely used HMIS software by governments in LMICs and is increasingly being used by health and development organizations for their information system needs. However, users face challenges with interoperability between the multiple information system components in place, impeding ro...

The OpenHIE Health Financing toward UHC working group is focused on identifying health care financing data exchange needs, and working synergistically with the OpenHIE community to ensure that data exchange processes and requirements meet the needs of the health care financing communities. openIMIS ...

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) deployed Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Systems to support administrative, financial and clinical management of its hospitals. The new EMR software did not capture the monitoring parameters and indicators for HIV care. Several implementing partners operated acro...

The Open Health Information Mediator (OpenHIM) is an open-source software application designed to ease interoperability between disparate information systems by providing a single point of entry into the services of a health information exchange (HIE). It provides secure communications and data gove...

Kenya has a wealth of mature health information systems (HIS) used across the country with the majority of the systems having been in existence for at least 3 years. The health sector make use of these systems to collect clinical, financial and performance indicators. Key among the systems are the D...