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Africa's bilingual home for digital health mastery

Build the skills shaping Africa’s digital health future. Our professional certifications in Digital Health and Medical Informatics are delivered natively in English and French, combining global best practices with practical African health-system experience
Aligned to the WHO Global Strategy on Digital Health and the Africa CDC Digital Transformation Strategy.
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ALIGNED WITH AND RECOGNISED BY

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

AFRICA CDC

SOUTH AFRICA MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION (SAHIA)

HIMSS

MINISTRY OF HEALTH, DRC

WHY LEARNERS CHOOSE NEXOVATE

Built for African health systems, not adapted for them

Truly bilingual

Every course is delivered natively in English and in French. Nothing is auto-translated, and nothing is an afterthought.

Practical and applied

Case studies drawn from the DRC, South Africa and regional health systems, using data and constraints you actually work with.

CPD accredited

Earn continuing professional development credits with every certification, recognised by regional health bodies.

Learn at your pace

Fully online and mobile-friendly, with lifetime access to every lesson, dataset and downloadable resource.

LEARNING PATHWAYS

Six routes from where you are to where your system needs you

Systèmes d’information sanitaire
The vocabulary, standards and building blocks of a modern digital health system…
Systèmes d’information sanitaire
Design and operate the health information systems a national health service…
Systèmes d’information sanitaire
Design and operate the health information systems a national health service…

Clinician to Digital Champion

For doctors, nurses and midwives leading digital adoption on the ward floor.

4 certifications

Beginner

Health Information Specialist

Deploy, configure and govern DHIS2, EMRs and national reporting pipelines.

3 certifications

Technical

Public Health Data Analyst

Turn surveillance and facility data into decisions ministries can act on.

3 certifications

Analytics

Digital Health Leader & Executive

Strategy, financing and change management for directors and programme leads.

3 certifications

Executive

Telehealth & mHealth Practitioner

Design remote care services that work on low bandwidth and basic handsets.

2 certifications

Applied

Health Data Governance & Ethics

Privacy, consent and interoperability frameworks for national health data.

2 certifications

Policy

CERTIFICATION CATALOGUE

Twelve certifications, one continental standard

Digital Health Foundations

The vocabulary, standards and building blocks of a modern digital health system.
40 HRS

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15 CPD CREDITS

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8 MODULES

Health Information Systems

Design and operate HIS and EMR platforms, from facility level to national dashboards.

56 HRS

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20 CPD CREDITS

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10 MODULES

Digital Health Transformation

Lead multi-year transformation programmes across hospitals and ministries.

48 HRS

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18 CPD CREDITS

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8 MODULES

mHealth & Mobile Health Solutions

Build community health programmes on mobile, including USSD and offline-first apps.
36 HRS

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14 CPD CREDITS

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7 MODULES

Telehealth & Virtual Care

Clinical protocols, triage and service design for remote and rural consultations.

40 HRS

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15 CPD CREDITS

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8 MODULES

Health Data Analytics

From raw facility data to indicators, forecasting and decision-ready visualisation.

60 HRS

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22 CPD CREDITS

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10 MODULES

GIS for Public Health

The vocabulary, standards and building blocks of a modern digital health system.
40 HRS

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15 CPD CREDITS

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8 MODULES

Health Information Systems

Design and operate HIS and EMR platforms, from facility level to national dashboards.

56 HRS

• 

20 CPD CREDITS

• 

10 MODULES

Digital Health Transformation

Lead multi-year transformation programmes across hospitals and ministries.

48 HRS

• 

18 CPD CREDITS

• 

8 MODULES

mHealth & Mobile Health Solutions

Build community health programmes on mobile, including USSD and offline-first apps.
36 HRS

• 

14 CPD CREDITS

• 

7 MODULES

Telehealth & Virtual Care

Clinical protocols, triage and service design for remote and rural consultations.

40 HRS

• 

15 CPD CREDITS

• 

8 MODULES

Health Data Analytics

From raw facility data to indicators, forecasting and decision-ready visualisation.

60 HRS

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22 CPD CREDITS

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10 MODULES

Disease Surveillance & Informatics

Event-based and indicator-based surveillance, outbreak detection and response tooling.

52 HRS

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20 CPD CREDITS

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9 MODULES

Digital Health Leadership & Governance

Investment cases, procurement, and governance structures that survive political cycles.

44 HRS

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18 CPD CREDITS

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8 MODULES

Healthcare Cybersecurity

Consent, de-identification and African data protection law applied to clinical data.

32 HRS

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12 CPD CREDITS

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6 MODULES

Interoperability & Health Standards

HL7 FHIR, ICD-11, SNOMED CT and building a working national interoperability layer.

56 HRS

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21 CPD CREDITS

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10 MODULES

AI in Healthcare

Clinical AI use cases, validation, bias auditing and safe deployment in low-resource settings.

48 HRS

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19 CPD CREDITS

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9 MODULES

Digital Health Project Management

Scope, budget and deliver digital health projects with donors and public partners.

36 HRS

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14 CPD CREDITS

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7 MODULES

Built for African health systems, not adapted for them

HOW IT WORKS

Four steps from enrolment to accreditation

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Choose your certification

Pick a single course or a full pathway aligned to your role.

02

Learn in your language

Switch between English and French at any point, without losing progress.

03

Complete practical assessments

Apply each module to a real case from an African health system.

04

Earn your CPD-accredited certificate

Receive a verifiable digital certificate with a unique validation code.

learn.nexovate.academy/his/module-3 LIVE PREVIEW

12 MIN READ

Module 3 · Data flows in a national HIS

A national health information system is a chain of custody for data. In this module we follow a single antenatal care visit in Kinshasa from the paper register, through the facility EMR, into the district DHIS2 instance and finally onto the national dashboard used by the Ministry of Health. At each hop we ask three questions: who owns the record, what can be lost, and what latency is acceptable.

  • Trace a single clinical record from point of care to national dashboard.
  • Identify where data loss and reporting delay occur in a district chain.
  • Explain the ownership and stewardship model at each layer.
  • Judge which exchange standard fits a given integration.

DHIS2 District Health Information Software, the aggregate reporting platform used across most African health ministries.

EMR Electronic Medical Record, the facility level clinical system.

Data latency The delay between a clinical event happening and it becoming visible on a national dashboard.

Which standard would you adopt to exchange a clinical record between an EMR and a national shared health record?

HL7 FHIR is the right answer. It defines resource level exchange over a REST API, which is exactly what a national shared health record needs.

Four steps from enrolment to accreditation

01

Choose your certification

Pick a single course or a full pathway aligned to your role.

02

Learn in your language

Switch between English and French at any point, without losing progress.

03

Complete practical assessments

Apply each module to a real case from an African health system.

04

Earn your CPD-accredited certificate

Receive a verifiable digital certificate with a unique validation code.

YOUR CREDENTIAL

A certificate that stands up to scrutiny

Every Nexovate certification concludes with a verifiable, CPD-accredited digital certificate issued in the language you studied in.

NEXOVATE DIGITAL HEALTH ACADEMY

This certifies that

Dr. Aline Mbuyi Kalonji

has successfully completed

Health Information Systems

56 hours · 20 CPD credits · Kinshasa, DRC

VERIFICATION NX-2026-HIS-04821

TAUGHT BY PRACTITIONERS

Faculty who run the systems they teach

Dr. Aimé Mulumba

Health Informatics Lead
Kinshasa University Hospital, DRC

EN

FR

Prof. Naledi Khumalo

Professor of Public Health Data
University of Cape Town, South Africa

EN

Dr. Fatou Diagne

Telehealth Programme Director
Ministry of Health, Senegal

FR

Jean-Paul Rukundo

Interoperability Architect
Rwanda Health Information Exchange

EN

FR

LEARNER VOICES

Trained here, applied at home

“I finally studied informatics in French without feeling like I was reading a translation. Three months later we digitised intake at two health zones.”
Dr. Espérance Ilunga
District Medical Officer · Lubumbashi, DRC
“The analytics certification was the most practical training I have taken. Real facility data, real messiness, real decisions.”
Sipho Ndlovu

Health Data Analyst · Durban, South Africa

“Our telehealth pilot went from slide deck to live service in one quarter. The case studies were written for systems like ours.”
Aminata Sow

Programme Coordinator · Dakar, Senegal

FOR INSTITUTIONS

Train an entire team, hospital network or ministry

Cohort enrolment, bilingual delivery, progress reporting for your leadership and curricula tailored to your national digital health strategy.
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Partner institutions

9

Countries served

40+

Cohorts delivered

QUESTIONS

Everything you might be wondering

Yes. Every certification exists as a complete French course — lessons, assessments, glossaries and certificate — authored by francophone faculty rather than translated. You can also switch language mid-course without losing progress.

Our certifications are CPD-accredited and recognised by regional health bodies and partner ministries. Each certificate carries a unique verification code that any employer can check online.

Certifications range from 32 to 60 hours. Most working professionals finish in six to ten weeks at five hours per week, and there is no fixed deadline.

Card, bank transfer and mobile money including M-Pesa, Airtel Money and Orange Money. Institutions can be invoiced in USD, EUR, ZAR or CDF.

Yes. Lessons, slide decks and datasets download as PDFs, and the platform is built to work on low bandwidth with lifetime access to your materials.

We offer cohort pricing from ten learners, with dedicated onboarding, a progress dashboard for your leadership and optional curriculum tailoring.

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