Unique Identity (Botswana)
CiHEB, Botswana (August 2021)
Last updated
CiHEB, Botswana (August 2021)
Last updated
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
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