Tanzania

We are helping Tanzania transform its paper-based health information system into a digitized national solution that promises to revolutionize patient care, especially for HIV and AIDS. To effectively monitor patient care and results and to manage treatment programs, health workers need quality information—which Tanzania’s health data system is not yet able to deliver. We are working with central and district health ministries in Tanzania to develop and roll out a national patient registry that gives each patient a unique digital ID. The project is also developing electronic health records that link to the health ID and improving district health data programs. Once finished, the digital overhaul, supported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, can be a model for other low- and middle-income countries that seek to improve their top-level health information systems.