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Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has revealed that the government is working to connect all health facilities across the country to a paperless system that will make health care easily accessible.
According to the minister of the sector, the records and history of the patients will be unified in a single digital database, which can be accessed by any hospital that a patient visits.
Kwaku Agyeman-Manu mentioned this when he launched the Health Facilities Regulatory Agency’s digital platform on Tuesday, March 23, 2021.
“Before the end of the year, and I will say maybe soon, they will see efforts to digitize the healthcare sector. Health service delivery systems will work better. Patients will have a single folder no matter where they are. If they [patients] They are moving from Sunyani Regional Hospital to University Hospital in Kumasi, they don’t have to carry their folder. Your data and records will be kept and monitored by a doctor. ”
The New Patriotic Party government has continuously expressed its determination to automate all transactions to reduce human interaction.
The Ministry of Health had already launched a national e-health project and a biosurveillance system to link public hospitals and clinics to a common database.
The eHealth system is expected to put an end to the movement of folders between departments in various health institutions.
The system will also allow physicians and administrators to access information for effective healthcare delivery.
According to the ministry, the e-health system also comes with an improved physical infrastructure and facilities to allow the Center for Health Information Management and the Health Service Disease Surveillance Unit to come together to perform comprehensive surveillance functions for the country.
As of 2017, the system was operational in 26 health institutions throughout the country.
Speaking at the launch of the system in November 2017 , at the Trauma and Specialists Hospital in Winneba, Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu said the system has the ability to detect fake NHIS cards and fraudulent claims.
“The vision of e-health is well embodied in the manifesto of the New Patriotic Party (PNP), so it is only a matter of time before the full potential of that promise is fulfilled. In our manifesto, we assured Ghanaians that we would use the best in health insurance management technology and protocols to tackle waste, corruption and fraud in insurance claims under the NHIS. This, we said, will include the complete elimination of manual claims processing, which currently accounts for about 90 percent, closely linking services and medications with hospital attendance and treatment with diagnosis, ”said Mr. Agyeman-Manu at that moment.
—Citinewsroom
