Rwanda: We Should All Support Digitization of Health Records

Rwanda: We Should All Support Digitization of Health Records

Rwanda is taking a bold leap in healthcare by pledging to fully digitize health records by December 2025. The Ministry of Health has announced the nationwide rollout of e-Ubuzima, a digital health platform already in use across 15 districts. This shift from paper-based to digital record-keeping is a landmark step that promises to improve the quality, accessibility, and efficiency of healthcare services across the country.

Rwanda hopes to ditch paper health records with e-Ubuzima rollout

In a bid to fully digitise its healthcare system by the end of 2025, Rwanda is accelerating efforts to eliminate physical medical records across all its public health facilities. The country’s Ministry of Health is banking on a locally built digital platform—e-Ubuzima—to achieve that goal by December. Developed as part of Rwanda’s broader digital transformation agenda, e-Ubuzima is designed to synchronise patient data across all health centres, …