Improving Quality of Care and Health Impact Through Innovative Systems and Technologies in Malawi

Overview

EGPAF’s HIS project is a five-year program, funded and supported by CDC aimed at improving quality of care through innovative systems and technologies in Malawi. In collaboration with Malawi Government and CDC, EGPAF is working to ensure clinics providing HIV services are adequately supported to manage patient care and provide data to inform program planning and implementation. EGPAF has modernized 206 point-of-care (POC) systems and 520 back-entry stations to support the PEPFAR and Department of HIV/AIDS (DHA) program with service delivery using digital technology that enables reporting requirements for systematic surveillance. The HIS Lab team works to modernize the national Lab Information Management Systems to improve sample tracking, diagnostic equipment integration and results management to improve HIV patient care. The HIS team also supports the National Registration Bureau (NRB) to ensure birth and death registration systems are accessible and effective across the country including in clinics and district registration offices. EGPAF supports management and maintenance of the DHA’s Central Data Repository which will serve as a centralized data hub for HIV program and patient data. In order to support the various systems, EGPAF has established a help desk to rapidly identify and resolve issues to ensure availability of EMRS while also ensuring appropriate investments for power, infrastructure, local area network and wide area networks that are the backbone for the electronic HIS.

Funded by CDC