The Integrated Health Facility Managemnet System, 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 remarks were made by the Permanent Secretary, ministry of ICT Dr. Aminah Zawedde while meeting Dr. Silver Kiyimba the project implementer of ICT based systems.
iHMIS was designed by a team of Ugandan Scientists as part
of the wider Integrated Intelligent Computer System (IICS) to support 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 PS said that the system will be able to cut on medical losses and also monitor staff attendance.
“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”. She said.
Zawedde also noted some achievements as a result of the technology in one pilot study done at Mulago National Referal Hospital which included a reduction of expired medicines from Ugx110 million to Ugx200,000. A 38-80% increase in accountability of medicines and medical supplies was also recorded and unnecessary over ordering of certain drug volumes like sodium Chloride reducing from around 2000 cartons a month to slightly below 800 cartons a month.
