Users face hefty fees for SHA medical data access
Medical students and researchers will need to pay to access data collected under SHIF. These charges which will require independent medical researchers to pay Kes. 30,000 to access the health data are contained in the proposed Digital Health Information Management Regulations, 2024, part of what will effect the Digital Health Act No. 15 of 2023, currently under public participation. "Charging user fees for access to critical data brings to the fore the government's aggressive revenue-raising measures even as questions linger how the billions raised are being collected." For more: https://nation.africa/kenya/business/users-face-hefty-fees-for-sha-medical-d... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grace Githaiga Twitter: @ggithaiga Skype: gracegithaiga Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gracegithaiga ...the most important office in a democracy is the citizen. So, you see, that’s what our democracy demands. It needs you!----Barrack Obama.
On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 10:16 AM Grace Githaiga via KICTANet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Medical students and researchers will need to pay to access data collected under SHIF. These charges which will require independent medical researchers to pay Kes. 30,000 to access the health data are contained in the proposed Digital Health Information Management Regulations, 2024, part of what will effect the Digital Health Act No. 15 of 2023, currently under public participation.
"Charging user fees for access to critical data brings to the fore the government's aggressive revenue-raising measures even as questions linger how the billions raised are being collected."
For more: https://nation.africa/kenya/business/users-face-hefty-fees-for-sha-medical-d...
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