Health information systems you can base decisions on.

Insight Santé works with ministries of health, NGOs and their technical partners on health data landscape analysis, interoperability and integration, across West and Central Africa.

DHIS2 Symposium · Arlington2024
2,000+health facilities using Logistimo in SenegalSource: Expanded Programme on Immunization, Senegal, 2026
7 countriesof assignments across West, Central Africa and the SahelSenegal, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, South Sudan, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, DRC
6 yearsof independent public health consulting, after 13 years in ITDesign engineer, PMP certified

What we do

Four ways in, from diagnosis to live service.

Full services
01

Landscape analysis and system urbanisation

Mapping what already exists, assessing real data demand and use, and putting order into an application estate accumulated in layers.

02

Interoperability and data integration

Exchange standards, integration of health data across systems, and a concrete answer to fragmentation.

03

Digital health and logistics systems

Implementation of logistics management information systems and digital health platforms, from pilot through to national scale.

04

Training and capacity building

Train, support, certify, assess. A continuous process rather than a workshop.

Selected work

Assignments carried out as a subcontractor on programmes funded by Gavi, UNICEF, USAID and the Gates Foundation.

All assignments
Senegal2020 to 2022

Logistimo

Deployment of the logistics management information system for vaccines and health commodities, from pilot to national scale.

2,000+ health facilities
4 countries2021

UNICEF Stock Management Tool

Multi country deployment of the stock management tool, with a trainer certification programme in each country.

Around 20 certified trainers per country
Senegal2021

Yeksinaa landscape assessment

Assessment of the health information system for medical products: current state, gap analysis and a costed roadmap for system urbanisation.

Assessment report and costed roadmap

What decides success

A project is not measured by budget and schedule, but by whether its users adopt the system.

Marie Ba Lacouture, founder

Our approach in full

  • ContextUnderstand the real constraints before recommending anything.
  • StakeholdersMap and involve them from the first week, the ministry first.
  • ToolsSized for the resources and the technological literacy of the people who will use them.
  • CapacityTrain, support, certify, assess, then start again.
  • ComplianceWith national regulation, including when it complicates the schedule.
Nairobi2022

Marie Ba Lacouture

Design engineer in computer science, thirteen years of professional experience of which six in public health. I have delivered digital health projects in compliance with national regulation and funder requirements.

I founded Insight Santé to contribute to health data sovereignty in Africa, through tools suited to their context and through the capacity of the people who run them.

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Full background

A project, a tender, a consortium?

Insight Santé works as a technical partner and can mobilise collaborators according to the needs of the assignment.

Write to Insight Santé

contact@insightsante.com
Dakar, Senegal