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    "id": 1344025,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Teso South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mary Emaase",
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    "content": " Thank you for giving me the opportunity Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Bill on Digitisation of Health Systems. I want to go straight to the aspect of integration. The fact that there will be a linkage between hospitals in the counties and the national Government means there will be reduced costs. As it is right now, you will find that if a patient, for example, has been attended to at a Level 3 or 4 hospital, and there is a referral to a Level 5 hospital, the same investigations and tests that were undertaken end up being repeated before the patient can be attended to. Having this digitisation in place will help reduce costs not only for the patients, but also for the service providers. This will also ensure that there is better management of the patient. That is because then there is access to the history of the health conditions. Therefore, this patient can get better and timely treatment, and there will be a better experience for the patient. I am also happy with this Bill because it addresses the security issue. Issues of personal health treatment are a private matter. This Bill seeks to enhance the security of health data, which will also build confidence in the patient. Therefore, many patients and Kenyans will be encouraged to go to the hospital to seek treatment instead of self-treatment, where people just walk into a chemist and buy medication for an imagined treatment arising out of fear of the security of their data where they go to seek treatment. Also, the general digitisation of healthcare systems will eliminate many inefficiencies in the health sector. For instance, it will also provide an audit trail. We have been having issues with Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) with the medications where medicines have been delivered, and they cannot be traced to whom they were prescribed. With this digitisation, we shall know what quantity of drugs, for example, went to Busia County, and that can be traced to which patients were prescribed this medication. It will be very easy to get this kind of information. Also, this will help us fight corruption in the health sector. With digitisation it will be easy to trace most of these inefficiencies within the sector. I still noticed that a lot of data is still collected manually. So, issues of reporting data will be shared with the national Government and internationally and it will ensure enhanced reporting."
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