DHIN HOSTS FIRST INAUGURAL CONNECTATHON IN NIGERIA
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Digital Health Interoperability Network (DHIN) launched “2023 CONECTATHON: Connect4ID” in a bid to facilitate integration of medical records of patients for physicians and practitioners across different hospitals in the country to access and manage patients. The 2-day event with the theme, “Unique Identifiers For Management Of Duplicate Health Records” which held in Abuja drew stakeholders from the government institutions, WHO, health and technology experts.
Speaking with journalists, Digital/Public Health Expert and Co-convener of DHIN, Juliet Odogwu said DHIN is hosting its first CONECTHATON to provide a platform for different stakeholders, public health, digital health, policymakers, software engineers, developers, technical folks to come together and hash out critical issues that affect integration and interoperability of digital health systems. She said CONNECT4ID is about using unique digital health identifiers across institutions and platforms to be able to share information seamlessly.
“So we are shedding a light on it from a technical standpoint and also from policy and collaboration standpoint so that we can come together and create some solutions around that.”
Also speaking at the event, the representative of Dr. Okafor, representative from the Federal Ministry of Health said the gathering holds significant promise for advancing EMR implementation across all level in the health system.
“This will go along way to improve the quality of healthcare delivery and also position Nigeria as key player in digital health provision. Lets us use this opportunity to harness the power of technology to improve the healthcare system in Nigeria.”
On his part, ICT Manager, National Health Insurance Agency, Titus Njoku in a goodwill message commended DHIN for organizing the event. He said; “We are here to support and partner with DHIN to show that there is need for technology to be introduced to health ecosystem in driving systems."
Read the full Connectathon policy communiqué here.
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