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TA to support his of the South African government to improve patient-level data systems at the national and sub-national departments of health under PEPFAR - Our consortium includes some of the most prominent and accomplished South African non-profit and academic organizations providing digital health systems and services at national, provincial, and facility levels in South Africa with decades of experience and proven track records.

Collectively, the consortium represents the local technical leadership for the major initiatives mentioned in the call. The members have elected to collaborate on a single application to promote coordination, interoperability, and to reduce fragmentation. We seek to strengthen domestic technical capacity, supporting core health normative standards framework (HNSF) shared systems, reference implementations of applications leveraging the shared systems, and data consolidation of person-level health data to directly support care and provide digital safety nets. This approach will improve service delivery and case-based disease surveillance, particularly for HIV and TB services, providing a roadmap to an integrated health enterprise architecture in South Africa.

Specific outputs include:
1. Strengthening local clinical, executive, and political digital health leadership.
2. Developing an overarching digital health impact model to improve oversight, governance, and regulatory strengthening.
3. Expanding and implementing the national HNSF.
4. Deploying a common, shared digital health platform to democratize the ecosystem by integrating multiple systems to, for example, continue to support and expand South Africa's national HIV and TB systems, to track people living with HIV throughout the continuum of care uniquely and confidentially, using the Human Resources Information System for workforce planning, and promoting patient-centeredness in staff and patient-facing systems.
5. The work will contribute to building a skilled digital health workforce in South Africa and result in national scale-up of sustainable systems supporting efforts to achieve HIV epidemic control.

Investment appraisal tools will be used to select optimal solutions from competing initiatives, and the project will implement a results-oriented, evidence-based evaluation and performance measurement plan aligned to PEPFAR standards of practice. Appropriate project management tools and approaches will ensure the agility and precision required by complex projects to meet project commitments. Consortium members' previous successful transitions to government ownership provide a critical foundation of experience for achieving sustainability.

(Hisp) Health Information Systems Program South Africa

NOT APPLICABLE

93.067 - Global AIDS

CDC Office of Financial Resources (OFR) [HHS - CDC]

Center for Global Health (CGH) [HHS - CDC]

South Africa

Foreign

Technical Assistance (TA) to Support the Health Information Systems (HIS) of the South African Government to Improve Patient-level Data Systems at the National and Sub-National Departments of Health (DoH) under PEPFAR (CDC-RFA-GH21-2123)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 1753% from $668,750 to $12,395,000.