HIS - Health information systems
Apr 16, 2021 | Stories from the Field
As a boy growing up in rural Ethiopia, ICAP’s Tesfay Abreha, DVM, MSc, MPH, and his family dreamed of him becoming a successful lawyer, influenced by an uncle who was a judge. But life had other plans: as a young student, he excelled in science rather than political...
Apr 15, 2021 | Stories from the Field
In support of national efforts to improve diagnostic services for patients accessing care at public health facilities in Eswatini, ICAP at Columbia University developed a digital link, or interface, enabling seamless data exchange between public health facilities and...
Aug 25, 2020 | News, Stories from the Field
On July 23, 2020, ICAP in Nigeria initiated its first virtual trainings to build local expertise in the testing of blood specimens from clients testing HIV positive for the first time to help understand the trajectory of the HIV epidemic in real-time. Identifying...
Jan 28, 2020 | News
With new funding from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ICAP at Columbia University is expanding its successful efforts to improve health systems in Central Asia, Lesotho,...
Dec 18, 2019 | In the Media, News
In close partnership with ICAP, Esigodini District Hospital in Zimbabwe has completed a digital overhaul of their patient data systems and processes through the introduction of a electronic health records. The initiative makes paper registers and records obsolete and...
