Deadline Date: June 12, 2026
The United Nations Development Programme is inviting applications to develop a national Health Information Exchange platform aimed at strengthening interoperability and integration across the country’s digital health systems.
The project focuses on strengthening digital health interoperability, improving health data exchange systems, enhancing integration across existing health information platforms, promoting the use of open standards such as FHIR R4, supporting secure and scalable health data infrastructure, improving data governance and exchange mechanisms, and building national capacity for managing integrated health information systems in Zimbabwe.
The initiative is designed to address fragmentation within Zimbabwe’s digital health ecosystem, where multiple systems operate in silos despite significant progress in digital health adoption. It seeks to consolidate existing platforms into a more coordinated and efficient national health information exchange framework.
The key objective is to design and implement an interoperability layer that enables seamless data exchange between systems such as electronic health records, logistics management systems, laboratory systems, and national reporting platforms. This includes defining technical architecture, APIs, data flows, and governance mechanisms.
The assignment also includes the installation and configuration of an open-standards-based middleware system, development of secure data exchange connectors, implementation of monitoring and auditing tools, and integration with national registries and patient data directories in line with international standards.
Further activities include developing national data exchange profiles, ensuring semantic and technical harmonization, implementing security protocols such as authentication and TLS/SSL, and creating dashboards for real-time system monitoring and performance tracking.
The project will also focus on documentation of architecture and processes, capacity building for Ministry of Health and Child Care personnel, training and mentoring, and post-deployment technical support to ensure sustainability and effective knowledge transfer.
The overall scope of work is divided into phases including analysis and design, platform setup, system development and integration, security and governance implementation, and documentation and capacity building. The assignment is expected to be completed within five months.
The service provider is required to have strong experience in developing and implementing health information exchange systems using open standards, integrating large-scale health systems, and delivering successful projects in similar contexts.
For more information, visit UNDP.
