Name: Zachariah Onteri Mitaki
Registration No.: W82/89454/2016
Fellowship: Health Informatics
Institutional
Affiliation: Migori County Health Department
ABSTRACT
Adopting new practices in health on a large scale
requires systematic approaches to planning, implementation, and follow-up; and
often calls for profound and lasting changes in health systems. Any systematic
approach must include addressing the policy dimensions of scaling up. Without
attention to the policies that underlie health systems and health services, the
scale-up of promising pilot projects is not likely to succeed and be sustained.
The
health sector in Kenya is one of the most funded programmes with multiple
stakeholders and partners participating in the endeavour of ensuring a healthy
nation. The National government, county governments and donors are working to
fight many diseases, including HIV/AIDS, and to make improvements in a number
of health areas. As Programs and associated projects to support HIV/AIDS grow,
accountability for funding and results reported is becoming increasingly
important. The proposed scaling up project of sites using Kenya EMR seeks to
aid the Migori County Health Department in the collection, tabulation, and
interpretation of data and information in an organized manner to provide a
broad picture of the services rendered and to guide management decisions. Upon
implementation, the EMR system should support monitoring, supervision,
evaluation, operations research, resource allocation, and performance
appraisals.
The need
for the EMR was identified after keen analysis of the OCA report which
identified the need for ICT based reporting; and with consultation with the PLP
mentor who emphasized of the need for quality data for the purposes of decision
making.
This project seeks to provide continuous
information on HIV activities. It also aims to assess how appropriately and
adequately each programmatic component is being implemented, administered, and
managed. This will help inform policy
decisions towards achieving the UNAIDS 90-90-90.
According
to the OCA report, the Migori County Health department had low capacity in
health informatics. ICT infrastructure was inadequate, no ICT based reporting
and there was minimal ICT human resources and training. This project aims to
bridge the gap by implementing a system that helps in the availability of ICT
based reporting.
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