eClat , the health-tech subsidiary of Nigerian payment giant Interswitch, has partnered with the Lagos State Ministry of Health to launch a cloud-based platform, Smart Health Information Platform (SHIP), that will manage and transmit data for all state-owned healthcare facilities. This is the second government partnership eClat has secured in about a year.
The Lagos state government believes the platform will improve the efficiency of the states health ministry and resources.
When the data are in one place, we can then use that data and collect trends on the health-seeking behaviour of Lagosians, Akin Abayomi, the health commissioner, said on June 18, during the signing of the concession between the Office of Public Private Partnership and the Digital Health Platform Limited (a special purpose vehicle) entailing the states Ministry of Health, Interswitch and eClat).
This partnership will digitise the paper-based data management and sharing system of all the state-owned hospitals and consequently put a significant amount of data from Nigerias most populous city, in the control of eClat. General hospitals in Lagos alone generate data from over 7 million persons, according to Abayomi. The states over 256 public healthcare centres generate and manage a significant amount too.
This is eClats second government partnership since Interswitch acquired it to expand its payment services in the healthcare sector. In May 2023, the health tech partnered with the Ogun State government and launched eClats core service, eClinic to digitise data management at one of the states teaching hospitals.
