{"id":101816,"date":"2025-11-03T20:46:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=101816"},"modified":"2025-11-03T20:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:46:40","slug":"health-ministry-insists-national-e-health-data-not-hosted-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=101816","title":{"rendered":"Health Ministry insists national E-Health data not hosted in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Ministry of Health has reaffirmed that Ghana\u2019s electronic medical records under the National E-Healthcare Programme are not hosted on local servers, contrary to claims made by Lightwave E-Healthcare Solutions Limited, the private company behind the Lightwave Health Information Management System (LHIMS).<\/p>\n

Speaking in an interview on Joy FM\u2019s Newsnight<\/strong> on Monday, the Ministry\u2019s Public Relations Officer, Tony Goodman, said the government currently has no access to the main data servers, adding that ongoing efforts to reconstruct medical data are evidence of that fact.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat is not correct. We even had a meeting today [Monday November 3] with the technical officers, including those who were on the project, and they told us again that they don\u2019t have access to the service or the data,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Lightwave is referring to is called a backup server, which is not the main server hosting the data. The server is not in Ghana because we don\u2019t have access. Our technical officers have no control over the system that was running,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to Mr. Goodman, the backup servers located in hospitals and other health facilities are non-functional and cannot serve as data repositories.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe backup servers at the facilities are what we call on-site servers. Even information from NITA confirms that those servers are just there; they are not storing anything. The original, or mother server, is not in this country and not in the Ministry of Health,\u201d he clarified.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

His remarks follow a rebuttal by Lightwave E-Healthcare Solutions, which on Thursday, October 30, rejected comments made by the Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, in Parliament and at the Presidential Accountability Series, claiming that Ghana\u2019s health data was being managed remotely from India.<\/p>\n

Lightwave described the Minister\u2019s assertion as inaccurate and misleading, insisting that all patient data remains securely stored within a central repository at the Ministry\u2019s data centre in Accra.<\/p>\n

The company emphasised that while the Ministry of Health retains ownership of the data, the LHIMS software remains Lightwave\u2019s proprietary platform licensed to government under a formal agreement.<\/p>\n

However, Mr. Goodman maintained that the Ministry\u2019s position is based on technical verification, not conjecture.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are reconstructing data. If we already had access to the full data set, why would we be doing that? This is a fact, and we have put it out there for the people of this country to know,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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