The directors, Administrators and other hospital staff
of Itojo, Bwera and Iganga General Hospitals have expressed joy and passion
over deployment of the Integrated Health Management Information System (iHMIS). It was exhibited during simultaneous
trainings of the different system modules carried out by three parallel teams
on site.
All the three health facilities attract quite a
number of patients averaging to 200 on a daily basis. Automation of their
services will provide an avenue for the patient’s best experience throughout
the hospital journey.
Time spent during, registration, triaging,
clinical consultation and the process of dispensing medicine among other
functions will drastically reduce. And members
of the public are forecast to receive satisfactory management during their
hospital visits.
When operationalized the Integrated Health
Management Information System (iHMIS) brings to life real time hospital
business practices. It challenges and empowers users to carry out their tasks
in a highly organized manner, saving both time and other resources.
In October 2020, a team was sent to the three
hospitals to carry out visibility studies of the sites. The organization is now
leveraging on the results of that effort to conduct the ongoing eleven days
training and system deployment.
According to Hajj Abdul Nsubuga, the Project
Manager for the Integrated Health Management Information System (iHMIS), the system
roll out is pegged to the readiness of the health facility infrastructure, a
key role that is being handled and supported by Ministry of Health and NITA-U.
Hajj Abdu further affirms that IICS Technologies
is equipped with standby teams that carry out Change and Deployment as well as
Systems Administration.
The Ministry of Health is scouting out, Jinja,
Mubende and Lira general hospitals for the next round of deployment.
The director, administrators and members of
management of China- Uganda Friendship Hospital in Naguru-Kampala have been
freshly trained by the Integrated Intelligent Computer System (IICS
Technologies) scientists. The half day training was conducted by Mr. Solomon Ssendigiya;
the iHMIS project Manager and three other Change Management Officers.
The managerial dashboard is a new modification
in the Integrated Health Management Information System (iHMIS), developed for
managers and administrators of health facilities to simplify their supervisory
roles.
This particular module according to Mr.
Ssendigiya, is a timely source of information, an adept decision making aide, a
real-time performance management tool, and gives an in-depth insight of the
health facility at first glance.
The director, administrators and members of
management of China- Uganda Friendship Hospital in Naguru-Kampala have been
freshly trained by the Integrated Intelligent Computer System (IICS
Technologies) scientists. The half day training was conducted by Mr. Solomon Ssendigiya;
the iHMIS project Manager and three other Change Management Officers.
The managerial dashboard is a new modification
in the Integrated Health Management Information System (iHMIS), developed for
managers and administrators of health facilities to simplify their supervisory
roles.
This particular module according to Mr. Ssendigiya, is a timely source of information, an adept decision making aide, a real-time performance management tool, and gives an in-depth insight of the health facility at first glance.
Automation of the health sector, hospitals administrators and staff start user training and implementation.
A team of twenty two (22) Information Technology scientists has been dispatched to conduct both fresh and refresher training for the Integrated Health Management Information System (iHMIS). The training will be conducted by a team from theIntegrated Intelligent Computer System which developed the iHMIS. iHMIS helps track medicine usage, records management, monitors attendance of medical workers among others.
The system has since been deployed in ten (10) regional hospitals-namely- Moroto, Soroti, Gulu, Hoima, FortPortal, Mbarara, Kabale, Masaka, and Naguru China-Uganda Friendship Hospital.
Government through Ministry of health approved deployment of the system as a means to increase efficiency in public hospitals and health centres, making it possible for government to cut unnecessary health expenditures. This was mainly realized from unmeasured supply of medicine resulting sometimes into wastage because of expiration. It on the other hand saves the hospital administration from under requesting for medicine as the system automatically sends an alert based on the previous requests and usage.
The system keeps track of the patient’s medical record and it can be retrieved anywhere where the system is deployed in case the patient changed a hospital of treatment.
Saving the masses further from the inconvenience of carrying their records in an exercise book at every hospital visit.
The two groups-one already in the field comprises of ‘Change and Deployment/ and the ‘Infrastructure team’, which is responsible for putting up hardware and connection of necessary equipment for the seamless installation.
At the end of the field refresher training, the ten hospitals will have achieved significant strides for example, going paperless among others. This is largely because there is capacity to capture patients’ records, prescription history and the total end to end operations of the hospital, on the automated system, thus saving both patients and hospital administrators from possible loss of physical records and also cutting costs from paper purchase, among others.
This strategic intervention is a major tool for hospital administrators and the communities.
About the IICS
The Integrated Intelligent Computer Systems (IICS) Technologies is an initiative of Government of Uganda. It started as a research project in 2010 under the supervision of Uganda National Council for Science and Technology. IICS currently dedicates their efforts towards engineering software systems to support Uganda's Health sector, implement Change Management, provide basic ICT skills to health workers, train system users, support users both at their locations and remotely, and also carry out regular system maintenance and upgrade.
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Press Release
September 6, 2021
“The Integrated Health Facility Management system (iHMIS) is another E-government project”, PS-ICT
As Government continues to automate services, the PS-MoICT Dr. Aminah Zawedde has said that the IHMIS, a Government of Uganda initiative health monitoring system is part of the E-Government program whose implementation will improve services in the health sector.
The PS made the remarks while meeting the project implementer of the ICT based system-Dr. Silver Kiyimba in Kampala. iHMIS, is a collection of software components representing different business processes carried out in a health facility. Now under the Ministry of ICT and NG and working directly with the ministry of health, iHMIS was designed by a team of Ugandan Scientists as part of the wider Integrated Intelligent Computer System (IICS).
It supports management functions both at the local, district and national level and has so far been deployed in over 10 Regional Referral hospitals with over 60 general hospitals and health centre IVs scheduled to have the same by end of this financial year.
The automated system helps to curb drug theft in health centres, monitors health worker attendance, manages medical records and, tracks expiry of drugs among others. In one pilot study done at Mulago National Referral Hospital, a number of achievements were realized, among which were reduction of expired of medicines from worth about UGX 110 million to UGX 200,000. The pilot study also led to increase in accountability of medicines and medical supplies from around 38% to 80%, reduction in unnecessary over-ordering of certain drug volumes like the case of sodium Chloride which was reduced from around 2,000 cartons a month to slightly below 800 cartons a month.
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