Medical Records and Data reporting System (MRDRS)

Data capture and reporting from the private health sector has been a challenge that multiple countries across the continent have grappled with for decades. In Uganda, data reporting in private health facilities was at 47% for the period of 2021. This was attributed to the high costs of production and distribution of bulky HMIS tools, lack of technical support in data reporting, limited human-resource to complete and high costs to deliver the tools to the biostatisticians at the local government offices who are faced with a few barriers that affect the timeliness of data entry in to the DHIS2 system to complete the reporting cycle.

With private health facilities providing approximately 60% of health services in Uganda and with low DHIS2 data reporting rates, Uganda Healthcare Federation with support from USAID Health Systems Strengthening Activity in 2021, worked with the Uganda Ministry of Health (MOH) to develop a digital platform linked to the national reporting system for private facilities to report directly into DHIS2 as a way of easing the reporting process.

MRDRS is an offline electronic medical records system approved by Ministry of Health for use by the private health facilities to capture patient information, visit type and particulars, health facility stock/inventory management, billing, automatic generation of DHIS2 reports, and health facility tailored reports to inform management on decision making.