The National Health Informatics Centre at the Federal Ministry of Health has been activated with a comprehensive Health-in-a-Box Informatics Dashboard that provides real-time information on disease patterns/trends, hospital capacity utilization, hospital performance indicators, drug availability/usage patterns, revenue/financial trends, health insurance patterns, etc. across Tertiary Health Institutions (THIs).
This provides the Federal Ministry of Health a comprehensive overview and oversight over THIs and the overall Health System.
The National Health Informatics dashboard also provides the Federal Ministry of Health a plethora of cross-cutting reports to guide health policy, interventions and planning towards continuous improvement of the National Health System.

Health-in-a-Box provides a consistent telemedicine platform plugged into the Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) across Nigeria’s Tertiary Healthcare Institutions to enable remote access to healthcare services provided by qualified doctors and medical practitioners over telephone or internet.
The telemedicine services are rendered under a standardized National framework that seamlessly incorporates general outpatient services with specialized consultations while digitally tracking diagnosis/prescriptions, laboratory/radiology test results and encounter histories.

The result is a Patient telemedicine profile that fuses into the traditional hospital profile at any/selected Tertiary Health Institution (THI) nationwide.
The telemedicine framework thus enables round-the-clock services to the general public directly and also serves as an escalation point for Primary HealthCare Centres (PHCs).

The telemedicine service is provided through a dedicated digital centre at each THI (with voice, video, and data communication options) manned by THI resident doctors as well as a mobile app deployed to THI specialists/consultants for escalation/specialist consultations.