Summary
The contents of this handbook report on the requirements for the digital health standards and enterprise architecture. To derive these requirements, an exploratory study on the landscape for digital health in Uganda's Health System was conducted to understand the challenges that impeded digital health standardization and data use for action when managing HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis (TB) diseases electronic health information systems.
The HIV/AIDS and TB diseases were chosen on grounds that several global and local interventions, though duplicated and disintegrated, electronic health information systems (eHIS) have been developed to manage the HIV/AIDS and TB. As such, the data about one patient have continued to be fragmented, siting on several isolated digital health systems, lacking integration and support for such data to be used to inform patient care or make a clinical decision. In light of these, standardizing is required in order to facilitate proper implementations of eHISs that support health information exchange (HIE) across Uganda's health system.
The derived requirements were validated through virtual walkthroughs and focus group discussions at national and sub-national levels. The requirements are categorized as; i) digital health standards, ii) digital health architecture, and iii) digital health capacity building. These requirements should guide the development of contextual Digital Health Standards and Enterprise Architecture framework for Uganda.