I made this presentation at the AU summit of heads of states in Addis Ababa in January 2010.

1. Transforming Health Services Through ICT - The Case of Rwanda’s TRACnet Program Jean Philbert Nsengimana Country Director Voxiva Rwanda jphilbert@voxiva.com +250-78-830-8998

3. Vision for e-Health in Rwanda

4. Benefits

5. What’s TRACnet

6. TRACnet: addressing crucial HMIS challenges

7. TRACnet: Overview of Technology

9. Ambition is to be the regional ICT hub

10. 2020 vision: Transform the country from a predominantly agriculture-based to a knowledge-based economy by 2020

11. NICI Plans

13. Efficient delivery of healthcare services

14. Transformed health sector decision-making culture

16. Benefits

19. 57,514 adults

20. 5,635 children

21. HIV prevalence sex ratio (F/M):3.6/2.3

22. Access to ART services

23. 2004: 12 facilities offering ART

24. Jan 2010: 266 out of 513 country wide

26. How does TRACnet work?

28. View, analyze and map the data in real-time to make more informed decisions.

29. Communicate and send alerts and information back out to the field in a timely and systematic way.PDA/ Smartphone Local Applications

30. TRACnet system

32. Used by all 266 ART facilities

33. 90% of facilities using phone to report

34. 1,159 registered users

36. Flexibility and scalability

37. System documentation

38. Data quality from the source (garbage in, garbage out)

39. Integration, interoperability with other systems

40. Governance structures and mechanisms

42. ICT development framework - what should investment be focused on? Is it time to shift the focus from infrastructure to content and applications? (Since the individual market for access will be saturated soon).