The Importance of Defining and Applying Competencies

by | Aug 21, 2024 | Africa

How To Create A Competencies Framework Competency is the ability of an individual to apply related skills, knowledge and abilities to perform professional duties successfully in a defined work setting. Competence can be summarised as contextualised capability...

Globalizing Health Information

by | Aug 22, 2023 | Africa

The world has become smaller and more accessible thanks to technology. Growing up in Africa, communication could take weeks or months depending on how and where you were sending your postal letter, and telephones were a privilege of few in the society. Now, we can...

The Kenya Records and Information Management Board

by | Jan 5, 2023 | Africa

Background In Kenya, in late 1960s, the first Medical Records Officer was employed by Ministry of Health. By 1970 there were only 2 qualified medical records staff in Kenyatta National Hospital. Through the 1970s collaboration between Kenya and the UK, many Kenyans...

IFHIMA welcomes our newest national member

by | Dec 30, 2021 | Africa

Please join me in welcoming our newest National Member – Medical Records and Health Informatics Professionals Association – Uganda Welcome to National Director, Mr. Mutebi Ronald and National Deputy Co-Directors, Mrs. Anirwot Gracious and Mrs. Nampijja Rose – and the...

HELINA 2019

by | Jun 12, 2020 | Africa

The 2019 edition of the Pan-African health informatics conference (HELINA) took place in Gaborone, Botswana from 20th November 2019 to 22nd November 2019. The HELINA 2019 conference was hosted by the University of Botswana (UB) through the eHealth Research Unit in...