The Strategic Partnership with Beyond Essential Systems (BES) and the mSupply Foundation (TMF) provides countries in the Indo-Pacific region with access to high-quality digital health and supply chain tools, and builds capacity in using them.This include the ongoing development of the free and open-source digital health products Tamanu (electronic health record), Tupaia (data aggregation, analysis and visualisation platform), SENAITE (laboratory information management system), Open mSupply (logistics management information system), and Health Supply Hub (electronic procurement platform).
With additional funding support countries can leverage the regional investment for country-specific projects, such as digital health system implementations and health supply chain strengthening activities. Countries or projects wishing to use these tools can get in touch directly to ask questions or for demos, and the strategic partnership makes implementations substantially cheaper and faster.
The partnership also supports the establishment of a Fiji-based Support Centre for BES’ digital health systems, and the expansion of a long-term health supply chain strengthening program (the Indo-Pacific Health Supply Chain Data & Technical Assistance Centre/DTAC, jointly delivered by TMF and BES).
With additional bilateral funding inputs, BES and TMF are also supporting the implementation of digital health tools and the use of data for decision-making in several partner countries. This includes work in disease surveillance, public health, immunisation programs, NCD screening, and asset management. BES and TMF work with 12 partner countries in the region (Fiji, FSM, Kiribati, Myanmar, Nauru, Palau, PNG, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu), including multi-year digital health projects in multiple settings.
TMF will also expand DTAC to provide services to countries that request help. DTAC is the wrap-around workforce & system strengthening suite of services, to more countries. DTAC aims to improve medicine availability in the long term through implementing proven systems and processes, along with ensuring staff are equipped to extract maximum benefit from those systems. The DTAC mechanism provides support across the full suite of supply chain processes. Support will be provided to Fiji, Kiribati, FSM, Myanmar, Nauru, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu & the Solomon Islands.
