Userful Corporation, a world leader in simple desktop virtualization
software will provide the Government of Kenya with a reliable and
affordable computing solution. The Government of Kenya and the United
States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Kenya
National Health Management Information System Program (known as AfyaInfo
Project), will equip health facilities at all levels in 12 counties in
Kenya with Userful’s simple and flexible desktop virtualization
solution. Userful has selected HP as the best technology enabler.
The AfyaInfo project is using a
change-management approach to support the Government of Kenya’s efforts
to design a system built on end-user needs and in order to position it
as the sole source of health data for all stakeholders.
The result at the end of the five-year
project will be a Ministry of Health that is empowered to effectively
manage a transformed, unified and integrated health system that produces
quality data and information products. The project aims to exceed
public and private end-user needs for overall improved decision-making
in the health sector.
Userful Multiplatform desktop
virtualization replaces physical PCs with HP’s high-performance thin
client devices, significantly reducing hardware, software and
electricity requirements compared to the traditional one PC per seat
solution. The solution is extremely simple to deploy and manage,
eliminating the need for expensive IT support teams.
Userful enables the Government of Kenya
to save valuable resources and greatly reduce infrastructure costs with
this low-impact, highly-sustainable computing solution. Health clinics
on the national, sub-national and community levels will all be able to
implement the solution with ease and better serve the citizens of Kenya.
“Userful Multiplatform and HP is the
most adequate solution for this project and will help us easily and
cost-effectively provide access to information systems for healthcare
service providers and health managers in select counties across the
country,” says Raphael Pundo, Lead, Health Information Systems
Technology Development at USAID AfyaInfo Project.
Dr. David Soti, Deputy Director of
Medical Services and Head, Division of Health Informatics, Monitoring
and Evaluation, added “Userful Multiplatform was easily deployed and our
IT staff is able to seamlessly manage the systems, while providing
access to a friendly user interface to users.”
Userful Multiplatform is currently
deployed on 933 workstations in Kenya covering 118 health facilities and
county health management (CHMT) offices in 12 counties.