Romain-Rolland Tohouri

University of Oslo · Department of Informatics

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be one of the largest global health crises and challenges of our time. In order to effectively control this pandemic, a response plan was developed and a national coronavirus response committee set up by the Burkina Faso authorities. This committee is composed of several commissions including the surveillance com...

MEASURE Evaluation began its work in Burkina Faso in March 2018 under the global health security agenda. In the aftermath of Ebola and other highly pathogenic infectious diseases and zoonoses that have plagued West Africa, USAID’s priority was to strengthen the electronic health information system to include routine data on priority zoonoses that c...

MEASURE Evaluation—financé par l’Agence des Etats-Unis pour le développement international (USAID)—a débuté sous le Global Health Security Agenda au Burkina Faso en mars 2018. La priorité de l’USAID étant le renforcement de l'approche “une seule santé”, le projet a entrepris de renforcer les systèmes de surveillance épidémiologique du Ministère de...

Une évaluation de la performance de la gestion du système d'information sanitaire de routine (SISR) a été menée en 2018 avec les outils PRISM récemment révisés par le projet MEASURE Evaluation, financé par l'Agence des Etats-Unis pour le développement international (USAID). L'évaluation a inclus 64 formations sanitaire, cinq hôpitaux, quatre distri...

Au Burkina Faso, de nombreux efforts de modernisation du système national d’information sanitaire ont été mis en œuvre pour répondre à la nécessité de disposer d’une information sanitaire de qualité. Ces initiatives font du Burkina Faso l’un des premiers pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest à disposer à l’échelle nationale depuis 2013, d’un système de gestion...

Suite à l'avènement de menaces sanitaires graves impliquant des maladies transmises des animaux aux hommes, le gouvernement burkinabè a décidé de prendre au sérieux la menace que représente les maladies zoonotiques, en adoptant l’approche « One-Health » encore appelée « une seule santé » en français. Cette approche promeut une gestion unique et int...

Ce manuel de procédures représente le document de référence principal pour le système d'information sanitaire One-Health (SIS-OH) et formalise les principales procédures de gestion des données. Ce manuel est destiné aux directions centrales des trois Ministères du Burkina Faso impliqués dans l’approche One-Health (« une seule santé »), aux coordina...

Our "One Health Information System in Burkina Faso" won first prize in the GDHF's poster competition, and I was subsequently invited to present our poster in a "lightning talk" session.

Presentation conducted during the 2019 Global Digital Health Forum by MEASURE Evaluation colleagues from headquarters and field offices on the topic of the District Health Information Software version 2 (DHIS2) structure, customization, and use in six Francophone African countries: Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, and Madagascar.

MEASURE Evaluation—funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)—began its work in Burkina Faso in March 2018 under the global health security agenda. In the aftermath of Ebola and other highly pathogenic infectious diseases and zoonoses that have plagued West Africa, USAID’s priority was to strengthen the Burkina Faso el...

A Performance of Routine Information System Management (PRISM) evaluation was carried out in 2018 with PRISM tools newly revised by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded MEASURE Evaluation project. The assessment covered 64 health facilities (HFs); five hospitals; four districts; one health region; and the central le...

Le renforcement du système d’information sanitaire (SIS) dans les pays en développement est de plus en plus basé sur des outils sophistiqués et des logiciels nécessitant une infrastructure en technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) adéquate permettant la capture facile, le transfert, le stockage, le traitement et l’analyse des do...

A serious outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Guinea in 2014 resulted in 3,801 recorded Ebola cases and 2,533 recorded deaths—the highest mortality rate (66%) from Ebola in West Africa. Disruptions caused by the outbreak were inevitably felt throughout the healthcare system, leading the international community to call for investment to strengthen a...

This paper addresses one of the major obstacles of reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDG): inefficient and unreliable information systems. Leading international organizations have called for integrated data warehouses as one of the solutions, but this remains hard to achieve. This paper presents four country cases of standardizing and inte...

In this article we describe and reflect on an ongoing project to develop an integrated health information system (HIS) in Sierra Leone. We emphasise the complexity of such an effort and on challenges faced with building a health information infrastructure in the context of a developing country. The main lesson of the paper is in the design of a cha...

This paper presents an ongoing project in Sierra Leone to integrate health information systems at district and national level through a novel approach. Employing solar-powered low-energy computers running Linux, a wide consortium of local and international actors have tried to counter the severe problems of electricity supply breakdowns and compute...

This paper presents an ongoing project in Mali to address the poor health care quality in rural areas through a novel approach. Employing basics IT facilities, Open Source software and a multi-sectarian consortium of local and international actors the project is trying to challenge the extremely poor health situation in order to address health mill...

In this article we describe and reflect on an ongoing project to develop an integrated Health Information System (HIS) in Sierra Leone. We emphasise the complexity of such an enterprise and on challenges faced while building a Health Information Infrastructure in the context of a developing country. The main contribution of the paper is the design...

Objectifs Rapporter notre experience de mise en œuvre d’un reseau de teleradiologie au Mali. Materiels et methodes De fevrier 2000 a juin 2003, 68 dossiers radiologiques (images radiologiques, renseignement clinique et compte rendu du radiologue expediteur) ont ete envoyes du service de radiologie de l’hopital du Point « G » a un serveur a Marseill...