Building the Future of Health Systems, Together

This article is adapted from our annual report for funders, implementers, and government partners working to strengthen health information systems. Read our full 2025 impact report

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At Jembi, we believe that empowering connection is essential for our shared future.

We envision a world where shared data supports healthier societies—so clinicians can act with confidence, nations can manage resources better, and patients receive better care. As healthcare becomes more digital and climate increasingly impacts health, the overlap is driving new needs and new solutions.

We work as digital health architects across Africa and beyond, working together with local stakeholders to implement solutions like Kenya's Master Patient Index and Sri Lanka's FHIR‑based data exchange. In Ethiopia, our Central Data Repository reduced data aggregation time from weeks to days. These projects demonstrate the value of locally led, interoperable systems that enable efficient, secure data flow from local clinics to the national level.

Digital public infrastructure (DPI) is designed to be country-owned and built for scale. Done well, it can support millions of records each year while the cost per person falls. That makes it more feasible to build health systems that are more equitable over time.

Building the future of health systems, together

Here are the three specific ways our work creates sustainable impact.

We empower connections

• Sri Lanka: National Electronic Health Record (EHR) system was successfully implemented.

• Ethiopia: Centralised data from 65 facilities with 99.9% accuracy, cutting reporting time from weeks to days for faster decision-making.

• Multiple countries: Adopted international open standards to build interoperable digital health systems

  
  

We invest in local teams.

• Trained 650+ professionals through free digital health courses.

• Conducted technical training for local specialists in Ethiopia and Eswatini.

• Developed FHIR Implementation Guide and Terminology Service.

• Home to the first HL7-certified FHIR educator in Africa, Richard Langford.

  
  

Connecting systems and millions of people

• Sri Lanka: Integrated four point-of-service systems with HIE, affecting 50 million patient encounters annually.

• Cross‑border care: International Patient Summary pilot was implemented in just nine weeks.

• Southern Africa: Improved One Health collaboration, including a Memorandum of Understanding between Botswana, Mozambique and South Africa.

  
  

By focusing on sustainable, locally owned solutions, we're helping countries build the digital foundation for resilient health systems that will serve generations to come, which includes training local healthcare workers and integrating technology that enhances patient care and data management.

"We owe a debt of gratitude to the Jembi team, whose dedicated support and expertise played a pivotal role in setting up the essential infrastructure and assisting the Ministry of Health team in the development of FHIR Implementation Guides."

– Dr Chaminda Weerabaddana, Health Informatician at the Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka

Jembi's model works faster, cheaper and more effectively each year.