This rushed implementation is the reason the new Sh104.8 billion Integrated Healthcare Information Technology System (IHTS), which is largely still under development, is having challenges. Digital health infrastructureThe team is supposed to deliver a baseline assessment of the current digital health infrastructure, digitisation of primary care networks and referral hospitals, development of Kenya’s Health Information Exchange, which would facilitate access to records. On Friday, we found the Safaricom team that has been burning the midnight oil five floors above Safaricom Care Centre, deep at work. “In there we also have to incorporate the Kenya Electronic Community Health Information System (eCHIS), Kenya Health Information Systems (KHIS) which is an open-source, web-based software platform for data collection, management, and analysis as well as design the health information exchange system,” Dr Nyameino added. He highlighted that all hospital systems in the country will have to adopt FHIR® to connect to the health information exchange component.

Source: Daily Nation October 21, 2024 15:29 UTC