Parliament lauds IICS Technologies for its adept innovativeness
The parliamentary committee on health was
delighted to learn that there’s an effort by Ugandan information Techs to
design, engineer and implement solution based softwares to improve public
service delivery. The Integrated
Hospital Management Information System (iHMIS) which is being implemented at
government hospitals was applauded as a revolutionary innovation that
efficiently addresses salient issues in the health sector. The issues were said
to be sometimes propagated by staff such as absenteeism, drug theft, over
stocking or over ordering of medicines as well sporadic loss of medical
records.
The legislators noted that the health sector management
suffers from artificial tendencies occasioned to self-benefit workers at the
expense of patients and tax payers. While citing some examples Hon. Ruth
Lematia a directly elected woman Member of Parliament, Maracha County
articulated that, some medical workers connive to work for a few days in a week
while covering up for each other once pressed for answers. “Seeing that this
system; records and monitors real time staff attendance and duty task at the
health facility, it’s a great innovation that must be supported at all costs”,
she said.
Hon Engineer Irene Muloni a former Minister of
energy and Mineral development freely expressed her thoughts about government expenditure
to be saved from the system usage once deployed in all health facilities in the
country including health centers II parish level. “This system is really excellent; it’s going
to help improve efficiency, cut costs and minimize losses” and she further
added that she’s “really excited about the system because she has no doubt
about the use of computer based systems in solving problems.
Dr. Silver Kiyimba, the Principal Investigator-Integrated
Intelligent Computer System (IICS Technologies) the implementing agency of
iHMIS presented a live impression and functionalities of the system at random
hospitals chosen by the committee. Astounded by the real time viewing of how
patients were being attended to and the duration each medical worker spent on a
patient, as well as some of the most requested for medicines at specific
hospitals, the committee recommended an expeditious implementation of the
system country wide.
The committee was humbled by Dr. Silver Kiyimba’s
humility to honor the president’s call to leave the UK to come and create IT
based solutions that enhance public service delivery in Uganda. He was flanked by Hajj. Abdul Nsubuga, PMP. the Project Manager, Mr Solomon Ssendigya, the Head
Business Development & Strategy as well as other officers from IICS Technologies.