As a way of harnessing the potentials of technology in keeping patients medical records across hospitals in the state, Ekiti State government has signed an understanding with African foremost health technology company, Helium health to digitalise secondary healthcare facilities in the state.
The brief signing of the tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the government, helium health and sterling bank was held at the Data Bank, Ministry of Health, Ekiti State Secretariat, Ado-Ekiti.
The ceremony was witness by top government functionaries, management team of Helium health, officials of supporting bank among other critical stakeholders.
Speaking at the ceremony, Commissioner for health and Human Services, Dr Oyebanji Filani who represented the state government appreciated the partners, describing the feat as a significant milestone for improved service delivery in the state.
Fulani said, “Today sets a significant milestone for improved service delivery in our state through this public partnership that we have.
“For us, improving the quality of services and performances in healthcare system is pivotal to improving healthcare delivery and enhancing patients outputs.
“By improving the process of healthcare delivery, we reduces chances of wastages, failures and redundancies. Quality improvement is central to a lot of the things that we do because it assures that we have a better health outcome in the state.”
He also seized the opportunity of the event to enumerate all the various efforts of the state government at improving the health sector in the state.
In his remarks, the leader of helium health delegation, Abiola Oshunniyi said the company will through the partnership leverage the strength of the private sector including efficiency, technology competencies and experience, “that has been in the private sector to be able to strengthen government service delivery process.”
Oshuniyi who is the Head, Regional Growth (Public Sector), further disclosed that the company will inject over N300million into the state secondary healthcare facilities as a pilot within a period of five years with a hope of improving thereafter.
“In terms of partnership, we are looking at investing a little over N300million into the state because we are looking and starting with four health care facilities and those facilities will be upgraded with our digital systems. Those digital systems will then optimise the service delivery workflow.
“Our focus is how to begin to help use our electronic systems, one of our core critical strengths which is our Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system where you can digitalise the facility end to end.
“So, from the point of entry of the patients to the point where the patient goes out, we have digitise the process in the sense that, if a patient enters into a facility and by just mention of the patients name or even his phone number, his health record can be retrieved and critical information to help in treatment would be accessed for the doctor or healthcare worker to work with.
“More so, data is required for the government to make decisions around budget, so, with this measure, it is easy for government to go to historical data which may currently not be available because they are in paper format.
“We are here to leverage the strength of the private sector including efficiency, technology competences, and experience that has been in the private sector to be able to strengthen government service delivery process.
“In terms of partnership, we are looking at investing a little over N300million into the state because we are looking and starting with four health care facilities and those facilities will be upgraded with our digital systems. Those digital systems will then optimise the service delivery workflow.
“Gradually, our hope and target are to be able to improve those facilities as a pilot, then extend to other facilities as that grows, so that creates a prof of consent and value propositions.
Also speaking, the representative of sterling bank, Ibironke Akinmade, the Group Head, health, said the MoU aims to allow for digitalisation of hospitals in Ekiti state, adding that the partnership ” will make medical access easier for the residents by just mentioning their names or giving their phone numbers, they will have access to their medical records to aid treatment.
“This will reduce leakages, provide access, visibility, data engagement such that people will have better medical facility in the state,” she said.
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