GHS gets USAID, KOICA, Samsung et. al support to improve health system through ICT


As part of efforts to improve healthcare delivery in the country, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA); Samsung; and Good Neighbors (a Korean NGO) have partnered with the Ghana Health Service to digitize healthcare in rural and hard-to-reach communities using touchscreen tablets.
The move is to allow transition from manual (paper and pen) to digital records to enable the Ghana Health Service to better manage patient cases and promote efficiency in data management.
The partnership on Thursday, February 1, 2018 witnessed the launch of the e-Tracker; a tablet tool developed to allow health workers to electronically collect and analyze health records and handed over 2,590 tablets to the Ghana Health Service (GHS).
Delivering his keynote address at the launch event, the Director General of the GHS, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare noted the donation will help replace the paper-based reporting systems with the electronic system at the lowest level of service delivery.
He was optimistic it will help promote efficiency continuum of care and provide the health sector with more reliable data for management decision making.
The Samsung android tablets, according to the GHS boss will be deployed in all functional Community-bases Health Planning and Service (CHPS) zones in Upper East, Eastern and the Volta Regions.
Dr. Nsiah-Asare commended the donors for backing GHS’s in its quest to realize the digitization of health information at very lowest delivery level.
Ms. Melinda Tabler-Stone, U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission in her speech described the e-tracker initiative as a wonderful opportunity to improve planning and budgeting for health management and to increase government’s ability to obtain timely, accurate and complete service data.
She highlighted the challenges that Community Health Officers face daily traveling from one location to another while encountering difficulties in transportation, attending to numerous patients and carrying heavy register books, saying, “the e-tracker initiative seeks to change this paradigm by moving away from manual registers to real-time tablet-based digital registry.”
For his part,the Korean Ambassador to Ghana, Mr. Sungsoo Kim commended all the donor partners on board the e-Tracker Rollout initiative for the good gesture, adding he is very optimistic the cooperation would help strengthen the Ghana Health Service to provide the best healthcare services in all parts of the country.
The Director of Policy Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation(PPMED)at GHS. Dr. John Koku Awoonor-Williams in his closing remark expressed his gratitude to the partners for the support.
He maintained although the tablets with the tracker will be useful in ensuring that aggregated data on services reported are accurate and can easily be verified, its requirements are very intense therefore insufficient due to the high number of CHPS zones targeted to be reached under the project across the 3 regions of the country and beyond.
He therefore appealed to corporate Ghana, other donor support agencies and all well-meaning Ghanaians to help support the GHS reach more communities in across the 10 Regions of the country.

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