eGabon-SIS project: COTECH 4 reviews activities progress
The 4th Technical Committee (COTECH 4) for eGabon-SIS project implementation, a strategic programme to digitise healthcare system in Gabon, met on Thursday 3 October 2024 at the Military Health Service Training School of Libreville (EASSL). The agenda focused on presenting project’s activities progress. After the opening speech by COTECH chairman, Mr Alberto Wenceslas MOUNGUENGUI MOUDOKI, General Manager of the National Agency for Digital Infrastructures and Frenquencies (ANINF), the project manager, Ms Fidéline Ursule BEKOGO BEKOGO, presented eGabon-SIS progress report. The presentation focused on two groups of activities: activities related to Health Information System acquisition (HIS), as defined in the contract known as the “HIS Contract” signed with the TICH CONSULTING-BS GABON-GLADIUS consortium, and related activities, important for the success of the main activity of acquiring the HIS in the twenty (20) health facilities in Greater Libreville. Activities related to SIS implementation can be summed up in two parts : infrastructures and applications. With regard to the former, the hosting, network and security infrastructures, as well as a server dedicated to data backup, were installed by ANINF engineers at Omar Bongo Ondimba Armed Training Hospital (HIAOBO). As for the application component, installation, configuration, integration and commissioning of solutions is effective in five (5) fields of expertise at HIAOBO. As part of data management and security component, same applications have also been commissioned on ANINF server. With regard to the digital patient file circuit, the integration of data collected in the SIS at laboratory level has been completed, in particular at HIAOBO and the Hospital for Egyptian-Gabonese Cooperation (HCEG). This should facilitate data exchanging and patients transfer between the two hospitals, as demonstrated at COTECH 3. User training began in September 2024 in the two hospitals mentioned above, with a Go live (operational launch) of the SIS at Hospital for Egyptian-Gabonese Cooperation (HCEG). During the discussions, COTECH members expressed their satisfaction with project progress. COTECH chairman took the opportunity to encourage everyone to provide data for algorithms creation. eGabon-SIS project objectives are to develop a health information system in Gabon that will help improve the speed and reliability of information to support the delivery and management of public health services; to promote the development and deployment of e-health services and applications, and information and communication technology services. The recommendations made at this COTECH will be the agenda items for COTECH5.