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During her three-day working visit to the Greater Accra, Volta, and Oti Regions, the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Deputy Chief Executive in charge of Operations, Louisa Atta-Agyemang (Mrs.) reinforced the importance of using the self-enrollment platform known as MyNHIS App for multiple registrations and expired membership renewals.
Anywhere she went, the DCE Operations reminded the NHIS District management teams to intensify campaigns on the MyNHIS App and the Mobile Renewal Service platform as a means to decongest the district offices.
Interacting with some pregnant women at the Jasikan NHIS District Office in the Oti Region, the DCE Operations educated them on the significance of the MyNHIS App and the Mobile Renewal Service platform and urged them to take advantage of the systems in renewing their expired NHIS membership and doing fresh registrations.
This was when she made a follow-up monitoring of the Biometric Membership Authentication System (BMAS) project piloted at some NHIA credentialed healthcare provider sites in the Greater Accra, Volta, and Oti Regions.
She visited the Dangme West Community Complex Medical,. Ayikuma CHPS compound, Tapa Amanya CHPS compound, Jasico College Clinic, I Care Home-Care Services, and Hohoe Adabraka Health Centre where the limited rollout of the Biometric Membership Authentication System has been ongoing.
The visit also afforded her the opportunity to interact with and hear directly from NHIS district management teams and their expectations from Executive Management.
MCE courtesy call
On the second day of the tour, the DCE Operations conferred with the Jasikan Municipal Chief Executive, Hon. Elizabeth Kessewa Anim Adjornor.
The Jasikan MCE called for proactive measures to retool the NHIS District Office to enable the staff to increase the Scheme's active membership.According to Louisa Atta-Agyemang (Mrs.), the NHIA Executive Management was committed to ensuring that the Scheme remains Ghana's leading vehicle to attaining Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by the year 2030.
BMAS project pilot
The ultimate goal of the BMAS limited rollout is to test how the system will function in urban and rural settings as far as network connectivity and the performance of the system is concerned.
This is with the view to fully deploy the solution nationwide to authenticate NHIS membership at all NHIA credentialed health provider sites and the full nationwide rollout is expected to start in the middle of May 2024.
The BMAS is powered by the NHIA MIS Directorate in collaboration with Margins Ghana Limited and the Project Director is the Ag. Director, MIS, Daniel Blankson with Ag. Deputy Director, Business Systems, MIS, Joe Annor-Darkwah as the Project Coordinator.Accompanying the DCE Operations were the NHIA Management Information Systems (MIS) Directorate Ag. Director, Mr. Daniel Blankson, Ag. Director, Coastal Belt, Mr. Bernard Brown, Ag. Deputy Director, Business Systems, MIS, Joe Annor-Darkwah, Ag. Senior Manager Corporate Affairs (CAF), Abdul Karim Naatogmah, Senior Manager, DCE Operations Secretariat, Edmund Obeng Amaning, and Ms. Nusrat Gyasi.
Source: ABDUL KARIM NAATOGMAH
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