Medic 15d ago

eCHIS & TaifaCare HMIS Interoperability: Closing the Referral Loop in Kenya In this session from Medic's June 2026 Community Roundup, the team behind Kenya's eCHIS-TaifaCare HMIS interoperability integration walks through how digital referrals are now flowing seamlessly between community health promoters and facility clinicians, and what it took to get there. Watch a live demo of the full referral workflow: from a community health promoter identifying a patient in eCHIS, to the referral arriving at the facility HMIS, to the closed-loop outcome notification coming back to the CHW. You'll also hear from Joseph Murage of AfyaReach on the real-world lessons from piloting this in Kirinyaga County — including the bottlenecks, the facility code mismatches, and what it means to build interoperability on top of a rapidly evolving national health ecosystem. Topics covered: How Kenya's Digital Health Superhighway (HIE) enables community-to-facility data exchange Patient identity reconciliation via the National Client Registry across all 47 counties The eCHIS-to-TaifaCare HMIS referral workflow, step by step Closed-loop referral mechanics: missed referral tasks, follow-up workflows, and outcome notifications Field lessons from Kirinyaga County: what worked, what broke, and what's next Infrastructure considerations and monitoring mechanisms for scale Presented by: Alex Kombo (App Developer Manager, East Africa, Medic), Irene Mburi (App Developer, Medic), Fred (Medic), Joseph Murage (Lead M&E, AfyaReach) 🌍 Learn more about the CHT Community: https://medic.org/stories 📅 Explore upcoming community events: https://bit.ly/cht-calendar #digitalhealth #communityhealth #cht #eCHIS #interoperability #healthtech #kenya #digitalhealthafrica #ClosedLoopReferrals #HMIS #HIE #communityhealthworkers #HealthInformationExchange #globalhealth #HealthSystemStrengthening #communityhealthtoolkit #kenyanews #globalhealthinnovation