MCC Digital Health Activity

This Activity supports interventions aimed at making health data systems across Lesotho interoperable, improving data availability, confidentiality, analysis, and usability at all levels of the health system, and equipping the Government to improve its current and future workforce capacities to analyze and use health data.

This Activity includes: (A) integration, extension, and improvement of the existing health management system, providing decision makers at all levels with quality information to make clinical, management, and resource allocation decisions; (B) identifying and addressing gender data gaps for public health services and administrative processes, and standardize gender-disaggregated data collection and reporting; (C) expansion of the e-Register IT system currently limited to HIV and tuberculosis patients into a national electronic medical record system covering all PHC patients; (D) pre-service and in-service health worker training programs to offer nurses, facility administrators, ministry level staff and other health workers courses in health information competencies; (E) technical assistance to MOH and MOCST to develop and implement standard operating procedures for provision of ICT technical support; (F) establishment of a center of expertise in data analysis and visualization (1) to promote professional development in data analysis, (2) to assist the MOH, civil society and others deriving insights from available data sets, and (3) to provide small grants to civil society to promote innovation, transparency and accountability in health services, as well as to promote other Project Objectives of this Compact; (G) technical assistance to help DHMTs develop mechanisms for periodic validation of data necessary to increase transparency in the use of resources and accountability through public verification; (H) technical assistance to support implementation of the Data Protection Act and a government-wide data sharing policy.