The Ministry of Health on Tuesday launched the nationwide health data management system at the University of Nairobi Staff Clinic.
The health management system was launched in a bid to digitise the health sector to promote Universal Health Coverage.
Currently, the system has been implemented in Othaya and Kitengela.
MoH head of Health Informatics Wesley Ooga said the data management system will help keep patients' records at the facility.
"It is with great pleasure that we see the University of Nairobi is among the first to deploy our digital health platform to deliver the highest standard of care to Kenyans," he said.
Ooga said the digital health platform will ensure Kenyans access healthcare services anywhere in the country as it allows doctors to access one's health history through the server.
"A patient in Nairobi won't move to Kisumu and be told their health records are in Nairobi," Ooga said.
UoN Vice-Chancellor Stephen Kiama endorsed the new system saying it will improve health services for Kenyans.
"This means even the patients from here when referred to some government hospitals, the doctors there will attend to them without asking for a file or a written report," he said.
Kiama hopes the new system will help in keeping records of drugs to aid in accountability.
He said the move will also open a window to allow the level four hospital to take in patients from outside, other than students and staff.
"We are able now to cost the investment we put on every patient before we could not get that data," he said.
He said the system will also show the number of patients that have been attended to and by which doctor.
"This will help in the management of staff and all the resources we have here much better than we have done before."
He said in the future, the system will come with a biometric system that will not need a patient to come with identification documents as fingerprints will be enough.
The MoH targets to launch the system across the country.