Unique Identity (Botswana)

CiHEB, Botswana (August 2021)

Countries: Botswana

Intervention Description

With high mobility with patient populations, matching patient identities across facilities and de-duplicating records helps identify a patient's care and treatment status.

Presenter: Kagiso Sebina, CiHEB

DUC Meeting Recording

Slides

Intervention Details

Data Elements	Name National ID Passport Gender DOB Registration per facility
Evidence	Data processing (matching & merging) ongoing, moved from 1,4mil to +590k records
Technology Requirements / Interoperability	Best practice cleaning process
Calculations / Algorithms	Data processing scripts converted to SQL and automated in NDW. Processed datasets used for visualizations.
Factors to Scale
Implementation Considerations
Governance Considerations	Still discussing secure identifier to use online lists to facilitate site remediation