Logistic Management Information Systems (LoMIS) is a suite of offline-capable mobile and web applications “LoMIS Stock” and “LoMIS Deliver” which address challenges with supply/distribution of health commodities to last-mile health facilities.
The LoMIS Suite applications provide critical solutions to ensure availability of health commodity, effective vaccine management, and enable broader health system policy decisions through the use of real data for insight and execution at the community, state and national level.
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Nigeria
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Kano State Primary Health Care Management Board
LoMIS is a technology-based solution that enables last mile health-workers and other actors in the logistic chain to send and receive health commodity information to ensure health facilities are appropriately stocked and have a supporting delivery mechanism.
eHA has developed the software to offer as a service to governments, other development partners, private sector organization and to use internally by its operations team.
The solution was first deployed in Kano state in 2014.
The solution includes:
Offline, SMS capable mobile applications installed on Android phones and tablets for health workers (who manage health commodity stock) and delivery personnel (who manage health commodity deliveries).
Web application dashboards that aggregate stock levels, utilizations and quantities delivered to health facilities, including those in the most remote and hard to reach areas.
Metrics
600 dashboard users trained in 2017
Over a million stock counts reported in 2017
Over 17 million doses of antigens delivered using LoMIS Deliver
eHA's role
Engage stakeholders to elicit and capture LoMIS Suite applications requirements
Develop software for the web dashboard and mobile application
Provide 1st and 2nd level back-end and help desk support
Train users including drivers, last-mile health facility workers and other primary health care workers at various levels on the use of the mobile and web applications respectively
Encourage the use of data in maintaining the feedback loop
Conduct user acceptance tests to ensure implemented features and workflows meet stakeholder expectations.
Deliver presentations and demos at State and National levels to illustrate LoMIS Suite’s capabilities and various incremental features.
who benefits
National & State Primary Health Care Development Agencies in Nigeria utilize the LoMIS dashboards to monitor aggregated reports from last-mile health facilities in near-real-time, which enhances their ability to make informed decisions
Vaccine delivery third party logistics service providers (including eHA) can use the LoMIS Deliver apps to plan, monitor and regulate movement of vaccines from coldstores to the last-mile facilities
Other health commodities logistics service providers can use the LoMIS Deliver apps to plan, monitor and regulate movement of health commodities from supply to the last-mile facilities
How it works
Impact
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vaccine stockouts in Kano State in 2019
91%
uptime of cold chain equipment in Kano state in 2019
+14,083
successful deliveries of vaccines and dry groods were tracked using LoMIS Deliver, in Bauchi, Sokoto and Zamfara state
65%
of health facilities reporting vaccine stock sufficiency in Kano State
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