Section 105 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Health information system
(1) The Ministry of health shall facilitate the establishment and maintenance of a comprehensive integrated health information system.
(2) The Cabinet Secretary in consultation with the Director General may, for the purpose of creating, maintaining or adapting databases within the national health information system desired in subsection (1), prescribe categories or kinds of data for submission, collection and the manner and format in which and by whom the data is to be compiled or collated and submitted to the Ministry of health.
(3) The Cabinet Secretary shall, in consultation with the Director General, prescribed policy guidelines for establishment of an integrated comprehensive health information management system, which shall include—
(a) an integrated comprehensive health information system relating to the national government health functions;
(b) an integrated comprehensive health information system relating to every county and in respect of county functions;
(c) the consolidation and harmonization of health information obtained under paragraph (a) and paragraph (b);
(d) the minimum standards applicable for establishment and maintenance of health information systems;
(e) a guide on the minimum indices to be captured by each county health information system;
(f) the mechanism for ensuring inter-connectivity between each county information system and the national system;
(g) the guiding principles for management and administration of health information banks; and
(h) any other information on health services, including sources of health financing, human resources available in health sector.
(4) All health care providers shall—
(a) establish and maintain a health information system as part of the health information system as specified under subsection (1); and
(b) ensure compliance with the provision of paragraph (a) as a condition necessary for the grant or renewal of annual operating licenses.
(5) Any health care provider that neglects or fails to comply with the provision of subsection (3)(a) of this section commits an offence and on conviction shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of six months or a fine of five hundred thousand shillings or to both.
(6) Nothing in the foregoing precludes a county government from making laws with regards to health information system for that county and the city, urban and municipal areas within that county.
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