Rwanda Health Enterprise Architecture
Rwanda Health Enterprise Architecture
Not-for-profit
Year launched: 2009Target geography
Target Population
Target income level
- Bottom 20%
- Lower-middle income (20-40%)
- Middle-income (40-60%)
- Higher middle-income (60-80%)
- High-income (80-100%)
Health focus
- Other/not applicable
CHMI PLUS Status
Profile Completeness Rating
Monitoring & Evaluation Reporting
Summary
The Rwanda Health Enterprise Architecture (RHEA) initiative seeks to define, develop and implement a health enterprise architecture for Rwanda. It is the initiative which supports the eHealth program of Rwanda.Program goals
The first phase is focused on the maternal healthcare domain, and the main objectives are to: 1. Complete an Implementation Science/Research Project to present the impact of a Health Information Exchange (HIE) on the maternal healthcare delivery system in Rwanda. 2. Develop a pilot implementation of the HIE in Rwanda that is focused on the maternal health care system in Rwanda. 3. Expand the understanding of HIE in Rwanda within the health delivery system and the technical community. The project includes identifying and defining high-level architecture for the health domain in Rwanda, identification of appropriate standards, functional requirements and interoperability profiles across multiple business, and foundational domains.
Key program components
This program will define and configure the foundational components of the proposed enterprise architecture including the Health Information Exchange (HIE) in Rwanda, including client and provider registries, terminologies and a shared health record. This phase also aims to accurately scope, define and plan for the implementation pilot. This includes surveys of end-users, eliciting information, knowledge extraction, definition of specifications, definition of cases and storyboards, definition of usability and security issues, and the definition of vocabularies and information standards. It will also develop capacity in Rwanda, by creating an advisory committee to define a phased approach for training coverage for the pilot and then expanding to a train the trainer approach. The user groups to be trained include IT professionals, end-users such as Community Health Workers, clinicians, administrative staff, and managers. It will also open a country office to coordinate work and build local capacity on a sustainable basis, develop an implementation science and evaluation framework to assess the potential impact of providing access to foundational registries and services and improving interoperability between applications. The Implementation Pilot sub-project will implement a limited scope pilot reference Health Information Exchange (HIE) using technology selected and approved by the Rwanda MoH and reviewed by a technical assessment team. The main deliverables are the foundational building blocks to support the specific domain. These are: - The configuration of the development framework - Customization and content of the provider - Client and facility registries - Customization of terminology services - Development of the interoperability layer - The integration of a number of two different points of care applications: OpenMRS and RapidSMS.
Technology
Financials
Parent Organizations
- Jembi Health SystemsNot-for-profit