Ill health is often identified as the most frequent cause and reason for poverty. One of the more successful ICT-based solutions that IICD has developed together with local partners and CORDAID to improve the quality of health care is the health management information system (HMIS). The system helps to overcome problems with poor-quality data, inefficient processing of information, and duplicated efforts among parallel health institutions. Thanks to the system the number of medical fatalities associated with human error can be significantly reduced. The success of the HMIS-projects helped to convince policy makers in both Tanzania and Uganda to use ICT to further strengthen the health sector. As a result IICD and the local partners are now supporting the Ministry of Health in these countries in the development of sector-wide ICT policies.
This video shows how the District Health Management Information System in Tanzania addresses some fundamental issues within the health sector in Tanzania.
In this short video (1:10 min), Bénédicte Marcilly – Officer Knowledge Sharing at IICD, talks about the deployment of networks. Watch the video and read the complete interview.
Watch the video and read the complete interview.
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