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

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