State should kick off stalled project linking hospitals to IT

The government should help speed up the programme that could see all level 4  hospitals interlinked with ICT systems two years after a company was awarded the Sh4.7 billion tender for the project.

The country should link the system to the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority, NHIF and other systems that are critical to health and necessary towards the realisation of the Universal Health Coverage goals and realisation of one of the Big Four agenda.

Healthcare Information Technology (HCIT) was to enable the real-time exchange of data between all the 98 hospitals under the government’s flagship of medical equipment services scheme. This is a global practice, meaning Kenya has been left out in the technology which might improve the sector tremendously.

Mombasa