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view Completed Provide on-going support to MoH and MHIF to implement the health financing component of the health program 2030 aimed on the improvement of the efficiency of public financial management in health sector; develop the strategic purchasing; increase of the coverage of mandatory health insurance and ensure financial protection to the population toward UHC Implementation of health program 2030 action plan for 2019
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view Completed Support health flagship days Conduct country wide information campaigns in order to organize various raising awareness activities (press-conferences, press-briefings, press-tours, and printing roll-ups, banners) during health flagship days e.g. World Health Day, World Immunization Week, World No Tobacco Day, World Antibiotic Week, and etc.
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view Completed Monitoring system of health strategy development and promotion for approval Comprehensive monitoring system for implementation of the State Program of Kyrgyz Republic on Public Health Protection and Health Care System Development “Healthy Person – Prosperous Country” for 2019-2030 (health program2030) engaging three levels of implementation and monitoring: rayon/oblast level, MoH / Government level and the Parliament will be developed

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Support the Government to develop the health policy and strategy of the healthcare reforms toward UHC  he WHO (coordinated on behalf of DPs) support to MoH to develop the State Health Program “Healthy person-prosperous country” 2019-2030 second term implementation action plan for 2024-2030 (SHP action plan) has been successful and the Government approved the SHP action plan on 26 December 2024 by the Decree No 802. WHO supports the implementation of SHP action plan and MoH stewardship role over the coordinated aligned DP support
Ongoing
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 Feb 21,2023 Dec 31,2025 SYDYKOVAA@who.int downeyc@who.int
Improving the access to the essential health service for children and adolescents at PHC  PHC Pocket Book for children and adolescents (PHC PB) - the guidelines for health promotion, disease prevention and management from the newborn period to adolescence, has been adopted to the country context in coordination with UNICEF and prepared for publication at the WHO website in Eng, Russ. The preparation of mobile application started to be developed in 2025 for further wide dissemination and usage by the health workers at PHC
Ongoing
70%
 Feb 21,2024 Dec 31,2025 SYDYKOVAA@who.int downeyc@who.int
Support MS to strengthen capacity for the health financing policy development  During 2024 the monitoring and agile responses were mobilized with support of UHC-P to navigate and prevent advise effect from the unexpected structural health financing reforms started in March 2024 with the President Decree “On reforming the mechanisms of financing of the healthcare system”, including the mission of Dr Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, Director of the Division of Country Health Policies and Systems and Triin Habicht, Sr. health Economist, WHO Regional Office for Europe, arranging the neutral platform for ice-breaking first consultative meeting between MoH , MHIF, MinFin, World Bank, DPs, to support the open discussions of reforms and assess potential impact. The country delegation to the WHO Barcelona Course on Health Financing for UHC the Central Asia countries organized together with the WHO European Centre for Primary Health Care (PHC), Almaty, Kazakhstan, 15-18 October 2024, was designed to encompass the all important players in the health financing reforms and included 8 representatives from MoH, MHIF, Ministry of Finance, President administration and FMC.
Ongoing
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 Mar 07,2024 Dec 31,2026 SYDYKOVAA@who.int downeyc@who.int
Health system resilience to the cliamte change impact  WHO supports at the global, regional and country levels prioritization of health within the Climate Change agenda and supports the country health delegation preparation to present the health in mountains region issues at the 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 29) in Baku, Azerbaijan. The agreed topics of the health session as following: an assessment of climate risks and vulnerability of the health sector, modern effective model of the health care system for providing accessible and high-quality medical care for residents of mountainous regions and its adaptation to climate change; and nutrition and health of the population in mountainous areas in the context of climate change
Ongoing
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 Jan 01,2024 Dec 31,2026 SYDYKOVAA@who.int downeyc@who.int
Improving the access to the essential health service for children and adolescents at PHC  PHC Pocket Book for children and adolescents (PHC PB) - the guidelines for health promotion, disease prevention and management from the newborn period to adolescence, has been adopted to the country context in coordination with UNICEF and prepared for publication at the WHO website in Eng, Russ. The preparation of mobile application started to be developed in 2025 for further wide dissemination and usage by the health workers at PHC
Ongoing
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 Feb 21,2024 Dec 31,2025 SYDYKOVAA@who.int downeyc@who.int
Improving population financial protection by enhancing the service provision within the State Guaranteed Benefit Package (SGBP)  Intensive discussions of the SGBP implementation assessment at PHC level (12 health organizations from 4 rayons) for 4 specific diseases and condition has been organized throughout 2024 in order to develop the policy level recommendations to revive SGBP and its primary objective by fixing the system level issues, improving financing, supply, delivery. WHO publication will be prepared and the policy dialogue organized to attract
Ongoing
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 Jan 01,2023 Dec 31,2025 SYDYKOVAA@who.int downeyc@who.int
Support to MoH and MHIF to implement newly adopted regulation on a selection of medicines into Additional Drug Package - In line with the newly approved regulation, the Additional Drug Package has been revised, resulting in two lists: one featuring medicines recommended to remain in the ADP, and another detailing those suggested for removal from the ADP by end of December 2023;
Completed
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 Jun 26,2023 Dec 31,2023 moldoisaevas@who.int SYDYKOVAA@who.int
Strengthening Regulatory Systems for Medicines and Medical products The self-benchmarking of the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) has been completed and submitted. The results of this self-benchmarking, along with the Institutional Development Plan derived from the validation results, will be discussed and agreed upon with the NMRA. These will form the foundation for further capacity building.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has established a new network for Regulatory Systems Strengthening (RSS), known as the Coalition of Interested Parties (CIP). The CIP's goal is to establish and promote a unified, strategic, and coordinated approach to national and regional RSS. This is aimed at enhancing access to safe, effective, and quality medical products. Additionally, the CIP seeks to increase the effectiveness and impact of collective efforts in countries and regions. This contributes to the implementation of Resolution WHA67.20 and the common objectives of CIP participants.
The Kyrgyzstan National Regulatory Authority (KGZ NRA) has expressed interest in joining this platform. In 2022, an initial meeting was held. Follow-up actions will occur after the finalization of the self-benchmarking validation.
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 Jan 01,2022 Dec 31,2023 moldoisaevas@who.int SYDYKOVAA@who.int
Enhancing national digital health capacities Training programs conducted for senior health policy decision makers and technical personnel to strengthen leadership in managing digital health programs and to enhance implementation of digital health tools. Capacity-building activities support healthcare digitalization, including participation in training programs, international symposiums, and workshops. Policy dialogues conducted to strengthen digital health information systems, supporting the Ministry of Health in developing digital health-related strategic plans and documents, and facilitating peer-to-peer exchanges between CAR countries.
Ongoing
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 Jan 15,2024 Dec 31,2025 SYDYKOVAA@who.int
Enhance Kyrgyzstan’s digital health information system and integrate it into a comprehensive digital health ecosystem Joint Programme “Bridging the Digital Health Divide” focuses on three key objectives: (i) improving equitable access to quality healthcare through an integrated digital health system; (ii) promoting inclusive service delivery across healthcare and social protection; and (iii) expanding access to quality primary healthcare services, particularly for mothers and children, by streamlining efforts in health services digitalization.
Ongoing
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 Sep 16,2024 Dec 31,2025 SYDYKOVAA@who.int
Support of the human resources for health information system’s education sector module. Comprehensive Health Labour Market Analysis (HLMA) was conducted in 2024 and is under finalization currently. This analysis provided a detailed mapping of data, stakeholders, and policies related to human resources for health (HRH) in Kyrgyzstan. The findings identified key shortcomings and outlined actionable steps to address them, focusing on rural family doctors and nurses who play a critical role in delivering PHC services. The analysis aims to inform the development of a strategic HRH document and corresponding policy dialogues in 2025, aligning with national health system objectives.
Ongoing
40%
 Dec 05,2023 Dec 31,2025 SYDYKOVAA@who.int SYDYKOVAA@who.int
WHO leadership in coordination of development partners working in health for effective collaboration for UHC WHO strategic leadership in the health sector during 2024: Health DPCC meetings conducted followed by the minutes of meeting prepared and distributed. The ToR for Health DPCC work has been revised and agreed. Within the preparation to the Health in Mountain Agenda policy dialogue individual meetings and discussions were held with DPs working in the mountain areas to present the new topic for collaboration and strategic engagement .
Ongoing
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 Jan 15,2024 Dec 31,2026 SYDYKOVAA@who.int SYDYKOVAA@who.int
Health in Mountain Agenda: Barrier Assessment to effective coverage with health services  The HMA policy dialogue supported the proposal of conducting assessment of the effective health services coverage in the mountains areas. The preparatory work started engaging 3 levels of organization to gain the synergy by combining resources and enhancing the barrier assessment handbook with the additional questionnaires on PHC, human resources, UHPR, digitalization. The assessment will generate evidence and identify supply- and demand-side barriers to health services, streamline the national discussion led by the Government toward the key barriers and issues to be addressed and foster the inter sectoral coordination and cooperation.
Ongoing
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 Jun 10,2024 Dec 31,2026 SYDYKOVAA@who.int SYDYKOVAA@who.int
Promoting the PHC service costing function in MoH and MHIF    The result of PHC costing has been presented to MoH and MHIF, PHC costing working group in June 2024. Ongoing health financing reforms and changes in the management of MHIF affected the agreed plans to handover the PHC costing methodology to MHIF for the process institutionalization. The adjustment measures are being undertaken to work with MoH and MHIF new functions to facilitate understanding and acceptance the costing. Upon MoH/MHIF request the costing for narrow specialist services utilization at the PHC per speciality has been started to add to the PHC costing results. Coordinated with WB work on development of co-efficient system (gender/age, density, urban/rural) the costing results will be used to calculate the PHC per capita rate to ensure provision of services declared in the State Guaranteed Benefit Package (SGBP)
Ongoing
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 Jun 10,2024 Dec 31,2026 SYDYKOVAA@who.int SYDYKOVAA@who.int
Health in Mountain Agenda (HMA) On 6-7 June 2024 the HMA policy dialogue was successfully organized: more than 90 participants from all stakeholders, President Administration, the regional and sub-regional authorities, PHC represenеatives , sectoral ministries and agencies, Village Health Committee, development partners. Dialogue three main blocks pivot the discussions: importance of health in the mountain agenda, health service delivery via strong PHC, the social, health determinants. The two panel discussions and an interaction session prompt particшpants engagement and brainstorming over inter and multi sectoral issues requiring the high level of collaboration. One of conclusions is to conduct the thorough assessment of situation with service delivery to generate evidence and support the Government reform actions. The comprehensive barrier assessment tool will be revised to enhance the scope and include at least 4 topics (PHC, HLMA, UHPR, Digitalization).
Completed
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 Mar 18,2024 Jun 07,2024 SYDYKOVAA@who.int
Support Primary health care financing strengthen toward UHCWHO recommendations for PHC financing provided, the costing of PHC services conducted Following the assessment of PHC incentive payment 2018-2021 and presenting its results, the general overview of PHC financing conducted to provide the recommendations on PHC financing, the PHC capitation rate calculation, the PHC service pack identification, The Strengthening primary health care financing: policy considerations for Kyrgyzstan policy notes were developed and presented at the WHO/UNICEF Conference on PHC financing in April 2023. the conference discussed key components of PHC: Financing, Incentive Payments to Family Doctors based on the presented analysis of current PHC financing and budgeting assessment by UNICEF, WHO presented the current PHC model of service delivery, types of health organizations, relevance to geographic distribution and its financing system with the impact on PHC work. WHO in coordination with World Bank planned the TA to MHIF to deliver DLIs 5,6 upon request from MoH and MHIF. The WHO part in the improvement of PHC financing and SGBP revision is supporting MHIF to conduct PHC service costing. MHIF created the PHC costing WG, the WHO international consultant visited the country in April 2023 and woks online with Costing WG. The 10 pilot FMCs representing different type of PHC organizations (urban/rural, rayon/oblast, population density, distance from centers) selected and approved by MHIF order, the costing methodology presented, adjusted and approved by the Costing WG. The piloting of costing methodology in 2 FMCs started.
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 Nov 18,2022 Jun 04,2024 SYDYKOVAA@who.int SYDYKOVAA@who.int
Providing tools for improving health financing towards strategic purchasing. TA provided to the multi phased introduction plan of new DRGs into the health financing system. The DRG grouper for the MHIF information system on treated case developed and installed. ToR for developing new information management system for MHIF to improve the capacity and productivity of existing databases
, Full description of DRG development process during 5 years prepared and officially handed over to MHIF to be used as a Guidance for further work on DRG improvement. The new MHIF information management system developed based on new DRG system making the process of introduction of new DRG system in the case based payment irreversible. Within the finalization process the following aspects of comprehensive DRG system has been worked out:(1) the approaches to financing for short-term (one-day) stay of children, short-term (one-day) stay of pregnant women, emergency medical care (up to 3 hours), emergency medical care (from 3 to 24 hours); analysis of 2021-2022 data of TB hospitals and outpatient treatment; further development of new DRG model and improving the "Treated Case" information system. Series of training for MHIF territorial branches and hospitals on new DRG system conducted.
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 Jan 01,2022 Dec 31,2023 SYDYKOVAA@who.int SYDYKOVAA@who.int
Health system strengthening MoH stewardship capacity to lead and implement state health reform program in a coordinated way is supported: Joint Annual Review of MoH and DPs conducted
, In 2023 MoH has requested support from WHO with development of the second phase action plan 2024-2030 (Action plan) of SHP based on the analysis of the action plan 2019-2023 implementation progress, lessons learnt during the pandemic. To support this process WHO worked with MoH to create the Inter-Sectoral Working Group (ISWG) and Expert Group (EG), prepare the outline for development of the SHP Action plan. On 30 March 2023, this Outline was presented by the MoH to development partners with a request for their support. SHP EG conducted analysis of implementation progress and the pandemic impact and lessons to take into account in the next phase action plan by the 9 SHP priority areas. The ISWG&EG retreat was organized on 12-15 October 2023 to put together the analysis conducted by each priority, discuss the cross-cutting enablers, prioritization of accelerators to prepare the first draft of SHP seven years action plan and amendments to SHP. The first ISWG meeting on 21 November 2023 approved eh SHP analysis for 2019-2023, the draft plans for priorities and the accelerators.
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 Jan 01,2022 Dec 31,2023 SYDYKOVAA@who.int SYDYKOVAA@who.int
Scaling up the Quality of care and patient safety in Kyrgyzstan recommended by the QOC assessment and further collaborative consultations QoC unit of MoH capacity strengthened
, WHO supported MoH with development of the Quality of Care and Patient Safety (QoC&PS)strategy and road map which has been approved on 4 May 2023. The Coordination Committee on QoC and PS with a function to lead implementation of QoC &PS strategy has been approved on 31st May 2023 # 657. WHO coordinated the QoC strategy development TA with World Bank and co-lead the Quality Strategy Consensus Building Workshop held on 11-13 January 2023 prior to approve of QoC&PS strategy. Kyrgyzstan was invited to become a member of WHO European Quality of Care & Patient Safety Focal Points Networks at its first organizational Joint Meeting organized by the WHO Athens Quality of Care and Patient Safety Office in May 2023, in Athens, Greece. The MoH representatives presented the QoC strategy among the 26 countries from the European region of WHO. the plans for next 6 months preliminary agreed to support MoH QoC unit capacity building.
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 Jan 01,2022 Dec 31,2023 SYDYKOVAA@who.int SYDYKOVAA@who.int
Inclusive, integrated, and multi-profile primary health care ready to spreadhead the health system response to the country's epidemiological burden MoH Kyrgyzstan was included in the 3nd course on ‘Actionable Primary Health Care Performance Measurement and Management’ organized jointly by the WHO Collaborating Centre Primary Healthcare Systems of the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and WHO Regional Office for Europe. The MoH created the participants group of 19 specialist from MoH, MHIF, E-Health Center, Kyrgyz medical institute of retraining and continuous education, family doctors, DPs, participated in the first week of online training in March 2023, in the country -specific coaching sessions, including the one on the Diabetic Registry with the country best example from Croatia. The Kyrgyz team selected the diabetic indicators to develop eth country case. In November 2023 the second week of online training will take place.
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 Jan 01,2022 Dec 31,2023 SYDYKOVAA@who.int
Strengthening of primary health care services - recommendations produced during the mission of the Kazak PHC Association are published and shared with national stakeholder and development partners
- assessment of existing statistical data at the health organization and central level
- development of a set of model indicators for performance analysis
- enhancing capacity for data analysis and planning of actions

, Jointly with the WHO European PHC Center facilitated creation of the PHC Task Force as a driving force of reforms on wide spectrum of system components as well as a platform for open discussions of different topics and finding solutions for cross-cutting issues. PHC Task Force is assigned to deliver results against 9 ToRs namely (1) Revise the rules for enrollment of the population to PHC; (2) Revision of the legislative framework, regulations for PHC, including development of basic terms and definitions; (3) Revision of the SBP service package, PHC services package, assessment of compliance of providing SBP to the population at PHC level; (4) Regulations for PHC work organization (health profile, site passport, triage, mode and schedule of work, etc.); (5) Development and implementation of Referral system including standards, procedures and criteria for referring patients to other health care organizations for consultation of narrow specialists (outpatient type, specialized organizations), admission in secondary and tertiary levels hospitals, including the procedure for obtaining feedback from a family doctor, referral of women in labor and sick children, patients with acute CVD conditions; (6) Develop indicators for assessing activities, processes, outcomes at PHC level; (7) Implementation of e- medical patient record/card at PHC level, integrated into all levels of health care, for comprehensive patient management and delivery of integrated services; Implementation of modern information technologies (phone or online consultations, telemedicine, e- registration, recording, referral, referral of patients) in the activities of PHC HCOs to improve access and quality of services, as part of E-health development; (8) Costing of PHC services delivery, including SGBP; (9) Information and communication campaign to promote PHC. The final 2023 review of PHC Task Force accomplishment across the 9 ToRs conducted on 22 November 2023 identified significant progress and results in some areas as approval of quality measurement indictors for PHC, increase amount of nurses from 1 to 2 approval of Law “On the protection of health of citizens in the Kyrgyz Republic": This is fundamental law in healthcare, replacing the 10 sectoral laws eliminating duplications, fragmentations, contradictions and outdated norms; sets the objectives and principles, regulatory framework, legal relations, norms and mechanism for their implementation; introduced new modern concepts have been introduced: digital health, maternal and child health, infectious and non-communicable diseases; and stipulates rights and obligations of citizens in the field of health protection.
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 Jan 01,2022 Dec 31,2023 SYDYKOVAA@who.int SYDYKOVAA@who.int
WHO leadership in donor and development partner coordination and advocacy WHO convenes and sets the agenda for the Health Development Partners Coordination Council meetings which take place at least 5 times a year
, In 2023 WHO called 5 Health DPCC meetings: on 25 January 2023 to coordinate and align DPs activities in PHC, on 17 March 2023 to inform Health DPCC on the WHO onsite review of National Measles and Rubella Laboratory, WHO missions on strengthening Procurement and Supply of medicines in the public sector, the UN Inter-Agency Task Force mission on NCD and mental health investment cases, he WHO Tracking health spending in Kyrgyzstan mission, and update from UNICEF on the health sector priority actions. The Health DPCC meeting held on 30 March 2023 was called upon the MoH request to inform DPs on big task in front of MoH to develop the new 7 years action plan for implementation of State Health Program "Healthy Person-Prosperous Country" 2019-2030. The other DPs meeting were focused on discussion of release of Health system in Transition 2022 – Review of health system of Kyrgyzstan, information on the MoH Official Development Assessment to the health sector of Kyrgyzstan in 2020, introduction of national action plan for health security (NAPHS), measles outbreak, WHO Country Cooperation Strategy for 2024-2030
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 Jan 01,2022 Dec 31,2023 SYDYKOVAA@who.int SYDYKOVAA@who.int
Strengthening financial protection (SDG 3.8.2) monitoring system Capacity building to produce data and monitor financial protection
, The WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing and WHO CO conducted the WHO Tracking health spending in Kyrgyzstan mission in March 2023. The mission focus area was tracking health spending and financial protection. Mission met the MoH, MHIF, MinFin, UN RC office and participated in the Health DPCC meeting. The mission findings were that the according to 2019 data, Kyrgyzstan has a smaller than average size of government allocation on health, the public spending on health in real per capita terms is roughly the same as a decade ago, health spending has been de-prioritized in government’s budget, and that low priority to health and limited fiscal space lead to low public spending on health as a share of GDP. WHO puts efforts into the institutionalization of SHA production for decision-making purposes. The WHO Barcelona office organized the 5th Sub-regional European meeting on tracking health spending using SHA 2011 methodology to improve health accounts production quality and discuss the ways to use the results to influence policy. Kyrgyzstan delegation included representatives of President Administration, MoH, MHIF, Ministry of Finance to engage all stakeholders important for the SHA 2011 calculation
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 Nov 18,2022 Dec 28,2023 SYDYKOVAA@who.int SYDYKOVAA@who.int
Support primary health care financing to strengthen UHC WHO recommendations for PHC financing provided, the costing of PHC services conducted., The Strengthening primary health care financing: policy considerations for Kyrgyzstan policy notes were developed and presented at the WHO/UNICEF Conference on PHC financing in April 2023. the conference discussed key components of PHC: Financing, Incentive Payments to Family Doctors based on the presented analysis of current PHC financing and budgeting assessment by UNICEF, WHO presented the current PHC model of service delivery, types of health organizations, relevance to geographic distribution and its financing system with the impact on PHC work. WHO in coordination with World Bank planned the TA to MHIF to deliver DLIs 5,6 upon request from MoH and MHIF. The WHO part in the improvement of PHC financing and SGBP revision is supporting MHIF to conduct PHC service costing. MHIF created the PHC costing WG, the WHO international consultant visited the country in April 2023 and woks online with Costing WG. The 10 pilot FMCs representing different type of PHC organizations (urban/rural, rayon/oblast, population density, distance from centers) selected and approved by MHIF order, the costing methodology presented, adjusted and approved by the Costing WG. The data collected and data cleaning and verification stage is ongoing.
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 Dec 05,2023 Jun 04,2024 SYDYKOVAA@who.int
Strengthening of Single Payer Institutional Capacity Information Management system upgraded
, Upon request from MHIF to provide technical assistance and consultations of a tender winner IT company to develop a new Information Management System for MHIF (DB IMS), WHO supports the whole p[ack of supporting measures: facilitation of process of development of DB IMS, preparation of the section on IT development in MHIF, development of financing algorithm as part of DB IMS, effective communication between MHIF and an IT company and representing MHIF in technical discussions with an IT company. The development of financing algorithm as part of DB IMS, testing the software product at the stage of transferring the software package to the MHIF, integration with medical information systems in hospitals, integration of DB IMS and DRG grouper, development of the IS User’s Manual and training materials for MHIF and hospitals.
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 Nov 18,2022 Apr 30,2024 SYDYKOVAA@who.int SYDYKOVAA@who.int
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