VODAN Africa Programme Document 2022-2024
Creating a FAIR Digital Health Information System
Data Ownership in Africa
Digitalizing patient health records in Africa is critically important to improving health outcomes at the primary care level. This can make a revolutionary leap with FAIR guidelines - creating machine operable data that is Findable, Accessible, under well-defined conditions, Interoperable and Reusable.
The objectives are to move to digital - the smart FAIR way:
- To create ownership and control over sensitive health patient data
- To create insights in health analytics at the health facility level to help doctors see trends and potential population challenges and epidemic risks from the data and help planning
- To create insights at the regional and national levels in analytics across health facilities and help policymakers in taking decisions
- To create an African Health Data Space, with a federated data pipeline production that can support smart queries, digital interoperability based on data strictly held in residence of health facilities
Figures of Achievement Today
- Includes health facilities in 9 countries in Africa
- Deployed in 60 health facilities
- Preparing to deploy in 28 additional facilities
- Structured data production of Outpatient Data
- Records, Mother, and Child care and COVID-data
- Data produced in real-time
- Data is entered only by a data clerk, but interoperable and generates parallel use-cases simultaneously which is efficient
- Data processing is completely compatible with GDPR and regulatory frameworks in place while allowing cross-border analytics
