Ghanaian Health Care Face lift
The Public Health Sector of Ghana is going paperless and I cannot help but be glad for my dear country with regards to this great milestone to better and easily accessible healthcare. Knowledge of this achievement was made known to the public when an eHealth Project was launched by the government. This National E-Health Project was launched at the Trauma and Specialist Hospital-Winneba in the Central Region of the country.
This project is set to gradually and then eventually get rid of the paper folder system and make sure that all patient data are now stored electronically on a central server, from which they can be accessed from any facility nationwide.
The project is to be carried out by Lightwave e-Healthcare Services. They have been mandated to put in place a Healthcare Infrastructure Solution, a Centralized Data Center for data storage and an all-day-round data recovery unit.
A task of building a real-time bio-surveillance system has also been given to Lightwave, so as to help prevent the wide spread of communicable diseases. This surveillance system will help identify the location zero of any disease in he shortest possible time so as to instate quarantine measures before any serious spread is recorded.
This is by far one of the greatest moves by this Government regarding the Health Sector Reform, and I see the future as very bright with Ghanaian Healthcare, because lots of the flaws of the current system will be catered for immediately this electronic system rolls out.
This is great news, the digital Ghana I seek is slowly coming to reality.
yes honestly, we are getting there. Its like the digitization is sweeping all sectors