Government kick-starts GHIMS project at major hospitals nationwide

Ghana’s ambitious move to digitise healthcare delivery has entered a decisive phase as the government accelerates the rollout of the Ghana Health Information Management System (GHIMS) across major teaching hospitals and frontline facilities in the Greater Accra Region and beyond.

A fact-finding exercise at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge), and the Adabraka Polyclinic confirms that the facilities have begun live operations on GHIMS, with staff trained across OPD, laboratory, pharmacy and other critical service points.

Similar checks at the Komfo Anokye, Tamale, Cape Coast, Sunyani and Ho Teaching Hospitals further show that departments in all five centres have already commenced use or are scheduled to go live this week.

At Korle Bu, GHIMS is fully operational at the Child Health and Obstetrics & Gynaecology OPDs, with in-patient deployment underway and specialty clinics—including Trauma & Orthopaedics, Cardio, Internal Medicine and Surgery—queued next.

At Ridge Hospital, training has been completed across OPD, IPD, laboratory and pharmacy units. Multiple departments such as Family Medicine, Paediatrics, Dental, ENT, Eye and O&G OPDs, as well as the pharmacy and cashier points, have already transitioned to the new platform.

Adabraka Polyclinic, one of the early adopters, reports that registration, OPD services, pharmacy and laboratory are live, with improved alignment to NHIS claims processing.

Across the other teaching hospitals, progress remains steady: some departments at KATH, Tamale and Cape Coast Teaching Hospitals are already transacting on the system, while Sunyani and Ho Teaching Hospitals—having completed extensive training—begin utilisation this week.

Officials overseeing the rollout emphasise that every national health transaction, including NHIS eligibility checks, claims submission, remittances and provider verification, now travels through the National Health Information Exchange (NHIE).

This “one-way-in, one-way-out” architecture is designed to enhance data integrity, traceability and auditability across the health sector.

Health managers attribute the project’s momentum to structured wave-based planning, hands-on training, and intensive hypercare support offered to facilities immediately after go-live.

From primary care centres to the country’s largest hospitals, the message is consistent: GHIMS is live, more departments are joining daily, and nationwide deployment is firmly underway.

The Ministry of Health says additional units at Korle Bu and Ridge will come online following hypercare, as the rollout expands to more regions in the coming weeks.

Story by: Joshua Kwabena Smith