[kictanet] 2-Day eHealth Workshop closes with a suprise

[Pauline Muthigani]

Hello,
I too had a chance to attend the same workshop .And relate to what Walu is
saying.I have studied many African countries and I can simply state that
the difference between Kenya and the likes of Rwanda and Namibia is that
Kenya we are GREAT In policy making  BUT not as GREAT when it comes to
implementation! Kenya got GREAT plans/policies but challenged when it
comes to fast implementation.

SA ,Namibia Morocco,Egypt, Tunisia and the Rwandas of Africa have their
govt supporting ICT fully, same here our government does , but then why is
the implementation speed so low. What must we do to expedite implementing
of these.. WE NEED ACTION ACTION ACTION!!

albest,

Pauline

> Last week on Wed 21st/Thrs 22nd, I had the opportunity to
> attend the above regional (East African) meeting on eHealth
> at the Nairobi Safari Club. Member states (Ke, Ug, Tz, Rw,
> & Burundi) were showcasing their eHealth projects and
> sharing experiences.
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> As usual, Rwanda's experience was way ahead of the pack.
> The chaps are pretty focused and have established eHealth
> Task forces that have been on the ground for over five
> years.  The have a comprehensive (Vision, Mission,
> Objective, Activities, etc) eHealth Strategy that is well
> integrated into their National Health Plan (Solved their
> Budget/Funding Wars that way).
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> Amongst some of the acitivities they have implemented was
> to link up their three National Referral Hospitals with
> fiber and are running Telemedicine & Other applications
> such as: Doctor-to-Doctor Consultations, Doctor-to-patient
> consultations(e.g. sharing digitized X-rays), Drug
> Inventory Control & Monitoring, Blood Bank Control &
> Monitoring, Epidemic Surveillance amongst others.
>
> They are currently looking forward to mapping their Health
> Information Systems (HIMS) onto a Geographical Information
> Systems (GIS) in order to extract 'Health-Intelligence'
> from their data.  For example, using the two systems, they
> would be able to 'see' why consumption of Malaria drugs is
> higher in some locations as compared to the other -
> probably due to the surrounding swampy conditions.  This
> would get their Health managers to intervene by way of
> treating the swampy conditions rather than just increasing
> the stock levels of Malaria drugs for that region. {I think
> that is clever}
>
> It always beats me:- How comes we are having to learn from
> Rwanda every now and then and yet we are supposedly the
> 'big brother'?
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Pauline Muthigani
Telecom/ ICT  Strategy Analyst
Nordic Consulting
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Nairobi-Kenya
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