Afrigather eClat, the health-tech subsidiary of Nigerian cost large Interswitch, has partnered with the Lagos State Ministry of Well being to launch a cloud-based platform, Sensible Well being Data Platform (SHIP), that may handle and transmit knowledge for all state-owned healthcare amenities. That is the second authorities partnership eClat has secured in a couple of 12 months.
The Lagos state authorities believes the platform will enhance the effectivity of the state’s well being ministry and sources.
“When the information are in a single place, we will then use that knowledge and accumulate traits on the health-seeking behaviour of Lagosians,” Akin Abayomi, the well being commissioner, said on June 18, throughout the signing of the concession between the Workplace of Public Non-public Partnership and the Digital Well being Platform Restricted (a particular objective car) entailing the state’s Ministry of Well being, Interswitch and eClat).
This partnership will digitise the paper-based knowledge administration and sharing system of all of the state-owned hospitals and consequently put a big quantity of knowledge from Nigeria’s most populous metropolis, within the management of eClat. Normal hospitals in Lagos alone generate knowledge from over 7 million individuals, in keeping with Abayomi. The state’s over 256 public healthcare centres generate and handle a big quantity too.
That is eClat’s second authorities partnership since Interswitch acquired it to develop its cost providers within the healthcare sector. In Might 2023, the well being tech partnered with the Ogun State authorities and launched eClat’s core service, eClinic to digitise knowledge administration at one of many state’s educating hospitals.
The long-term aim, for eClat, is to create an “API-enabled digital platform that enables all well being ecosystem platforms to collaborate and securely share knowledge,” a spokesperson advised TechCabal.
The partnership, which is able to facilitate digital invoice cost for these hospitals, is a direct optimistic for Interswitch’s cost enterprise. The cost large advised TechCabal that it validates the reasoning for Interswitch’s 2019 acquisition of eClat which is to “place the Interswitch group as a health-tech resolution and funds supplier of option to the healthcare business.”
Authorities partnerships of this nature are a part of Interswitch’s overarching aim to extend the adoption of digital cost in Nigeria’s cash-dominated financial system. “ There may be super worth, monetary and in any other case, locked up in sectors and areas the place authorities is a key participant, significantly within the features of healthcare, transportation, and different primary social providers,” Mitchell Elegbe, founder and CEO of Interswitch, said on the concession signing occasion.
Earlier than its acquisition by Interswitch, eClat’s digital well being file platform was utilized in over 250 private and non-private healthcare amenities in Nigeria. The brand new authorities partnership will see that quantity enhance considerably.
