“Our work has become easier and faster due to the use of these systems, and patients no longer have to wait as long to get services.” — Health employee at Nano Gebriel HP in Ethiopia.

The USAID-funded President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) Uganda Malaria Reduction Activity (MRA) goals to strengthen malaria prevention on the group and family ranges in 5 of the highest-burden areas (Acholi, Busoga, Karamoja, Lango, and West Nile). The challenge works with the Government of Uganda to strengthen technical, monetary, and management capability in any respect ranges of the well being system to extend entry to malaria prevention and remedy and scale back new infections. It additionally helps non-public for-profit well being services enhance malaria case administration and reporting.

In March 2023, the challenge supervisor of digitization from Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MOH) and the digital well being advisor from PMI-MRA went to Ethiopia to find out how improvements in its well being data system, beneath the USAID-funded Digital Health Activity (DHA), could possibly be utilized to the malaria response in Uganda.

DHA is main an initiative to digitize public well being in Ethiopia. DHA works at varied ranges of the well being system: constructing out tooling for group well being staff via the electronic community health information systems (eCHIS), digitizing the nation’s well being data system (DHIS2) and the human useful resource for well being data system. A essential DHA endeavor is an open-source digital medical file (EMR) system that provides well being professionals entry to affected person medical information, which is crucial to offer high-quality, person-centered care. Paper affected person information at the moment are scanned and uploaded into the EMR system, accessible to any clinician or facility and decreasing triage unit ready time from 30 to fewer than three minutes. Other DHA-related features are elevated autonomy and accountability within the well being system and a extra responsive provide chain system to assist it.

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