In September 2024, Uganda’s Ministry of Health published a Compendium of National Digital Health Guidelines, a major step towards standardising digital health across the country.
The Compendium sets out an enterprise architecture, standards, and knowledge products to guide how digital health is designed and deployed in Uganda. Its aim is to standardise systems so that data can move safely and meaningfully across a fragmented health landscape.
Across Africa, digital health tools have often been built in isolation, creating silos that cannot share information or protect it consistently. Common architecture and standards make interoperability possible, but they also raise the stakes for governance: the more health data flows, the more important it is that privacy, consent, and accountability are built in from the start.
Standardising digital health is not only a technical exercise. It is a question of rights, trust, and who benefits.
We welcome clearer standards, and we track how they intersect with the Data Protection and Privacy Act and with the rights of patients, especially women, children, and marginalised communities. Guidelines succeed when they translate into real safeguards and meaningful participation, not just infrastructure.
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