The National information Technology
Development Agency (NITDA) said its willing to join forces with the Garki
Hospital to improve health care delivery in the country through the use of
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) reports ITRealms.
The partnership which aims at
increasing the level of government commitment to the Public Private Partnership
in terms of eHealth deployment in what will be a Pilot Project which both
parties expect will scale up over time.
The Acting Director General of NITDA,
Dr. Vincent Olatunji while hosting the Chief Medical Director of the hospital,
Dr. Ibrahim Wada in his office, asserted that “we need to develop our health
sector to e-globally competitive” stressing that with adequate deployment of Information
and Communication Technology (ICT) tools in the health system, the sector could make Nigeria medical tourism
destination.
Dr. Olatunji emphasized that
partnering with organisation like Garki Hospital would be a win-win situation
for the hospital and the country at large as the effects of such collaboration
would benefit the populace.
Underscoring the importance of the
partnership, Dr. Wada urged Nigerians to see it as marriage of purpose with the
aims of improving on the IT equipment and capacity of the hospital.
“The hospital can boast of 95 per
cent IT compliance as we have digitalized all most all our operations. We have
migrated from paper based medical record keeping to digital but we still need
to map out how we can partner with NITDA to produce good health care delivery
using IT,” he said.
He requested NITDA interventions on
the establishment of e-library, training of health personnel in ICT, patients engagement
and education and telemedicine service development.
The agency assured the hospital that
their requests would be look into as they are in line with the agency’s project
on health sectors.
The Head of e-Health Unit of the agency,
Dr. Nkem Momah stated that this initiative was coming at a good time when NITDA
is in the process of developing standards and guidelines for eHealth deployment
nationally.
He assured that the two organisations
have enough capacity to drive the initiative and would form a committee to come
up with modalities for the partnership.
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