Dar es Salaam, July 14 -- INFORMATION, Communication and Technology (ICT) innovation and development is increasingly occurring in developing countries themselves. These consumer trends, coupled with declining hardware and communications costs globally, offer a huge opportunity to better use ICT as a tool to address longstanding issues in health services delivery. Better use of better data can improve health systems and health outcomes.

The work of health workers and managers can be improved if they can use data to track clients, support clinical decisions, provide services efficiently, identify and solve problems, measure performance and allocate resources. Access to quality health services remains a key pillar of Tanzanias development v...