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Mount Kenya University (MKU) is the first institution to be accredited to train Health Records professionals in the country after fulfilling all the requirements set by the Ministry of Health. The Director, Health Information Systems at the ministry, Mr. Gilbert Nzomo says the training of Health Records officers has come a long way as, initially, it was even done outside the country. “Many institutions are now training the officers and there is need to ensure quality. It started as a certificate programme and at the moment we have PhD programmes in the country,” he added. Speaking during the official presentation of certificate of accreditation to MKU, the Chairman, Health Records and Information Mangers Board, Mr. Onesmus K. Mwaura said MKU was the first institution to be accredited after fulfilling all the requirements. “As a board, we have embarked on streamlining the training of the health records and information officers in the country. One way of ensuring that all the institutions adhere to the set guidelines is through accreditation,” he said. Mr Mwaura said the Health Records and Information Managers Board (HRIM) is anchored in the HRIM Act No 15 of 2016 which became operational in 2022. “The act empowers the board to exercise regulatory and oversight roles on training institutions offering training in Health Records and Information courses,” he added. MKU vice-chancellor Prof. Deogratius Jaganyi, expressed gratitude to the Health Records and Information Managers Board (HRIMB) for the collaboration with his institution in the training of Health Records and Information Managers. “Universal access to quality health services and, in turn, improved health outcomes require not only more health professionals but also the quality and relevance of education in health professions,” he said. Accordingly, plans are underway to the process of launching a Master of Health Information Management Program. “MKU values the strong collaborative relationship that we share with the HRIM Board and remains committed to upholding the highest standards of training Health Records and Information management managers,” he added. MKU graduated its first Bachelor of Science in Health Records and Information Management graduates in December 2012. To date, the university has graduated 516 Bachelor of Science, 860 Diplomas and 383 certificates in Health Records and Information Management. “Our health records and information technology graduates are making an impact in diverse sectors including the government, Non-governmental Organisations, academia, and international bodies such the World Health Organisation,” noted the VC. Prof Jaganyi noted that the university remains committed to preparing the students to high quality professionals to serve as health care and quality managers at all levels of the healthcare ecosystem both locally and internationally. “Our programmes endeavour to expose our graduates to modern technology in the health records domain which ensures that they are capable of applying technology in the improvement of patient care and outcomes,” he added. Others who attended or were represented at the function were MKU’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic and Research Affairs, Dr Mercyline Kamande; Registrar, Academic Administration, Dr Ronald Maathai; Principal, College of Health Sciences, Dr. Josphat Njuguna; Dean, School of Clinical Medicine, Mr. Peter Mwaura, faculty members and students. The news of the certification comes a few days after the university was re-accredited by the Nursing Council of Kenya to continue training nursing students. The Institution has been offering a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree for the last 12 years and has been subject to regular reviews by the nursing council to confirm that the university’s facilities, including laboratories, meet the set requirements. The reviews undertaken every five years are a legal requirement for all institutions of higher learning training nursing students. The Registrar Nursing Council of Kenya Dr. Lister Onsongo presented the re-accreditation certificate to the MKU Vice-Chancellor Prof. Deogratious Jaganyi.

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Kenya’s cloud and artificial intelligence boom may be entering its most consequential phase yet, as new data suggests local consultancies, AI startups and systems integrators stand to earn dramatically more from Amazon Web Services (AWS) than previously understood. A study by US-based research firm Omdia reveals that AWS partners worldwide can now generate “up to a $7.13 (Sh900) multiplier for every $1 (Sh130) of AWS sold,” a figure with enormous implications for East Africa’s technology ecosystem. The report, titled "Partner Ecosystem Multiplier: The AWS Opportunity 2025," was released on the sidelines of the AWS: Re-Invent event in Las Vegas, Nevada, which kicked off on December 1 and ends on December 5. It reached this conclusion after Omdia conducted in-depth interviews with 35 AWS partners across various geographies and partner types. The report’s central argument is blunt: in a region where businesses are hungry for automation, resilient infrastructure, and AI-powered customer engagement, the biggest revenue doesn’t come from selling cloud technology itself. Instead, it comes from the advisory, design, build, adoption, and managed services wrapped around it, the same areas where Kenyan firms have sought to differentiate themselves. “In the new era of AI, Omdia has forecasted a services opportunity tied to generative and agentic AI of $267 billion by 2030,” the research notes, positioning partners as the engines of this expansion. With Kenya’s financial institutions, telcos, and public agencies accelerating cloud migrations, the findings sharpen the conversation about who will capture the next decade of revenue. Kenyan companies already recognize the shift. For years, Kenya’s cloud market has revolved around foundational migrations: moving banks off aging data centres, helping enterprises modernize digital infrastructure, or building customer-facing platforms with elasticity and scale. But companies across Nairobi’s tech districts, from Westlands to Upper Hill to Ngong Road, are now repositioning their services for an AI-first world. The Omdia numbers help make the business case. The report states bluntly that 82 per cent of AWS partners are now delivering some form of AI as part of their transformation delivery, a seismic shift that mirrors Kenya’s adoption pattern: AI chatbots in banking, machine learning in fraud detection, recommender engines in e-commerce, and predictive analytics in agriculture and logistics. “Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to be the market-leading provider of public cloud infrastructure in terms of market share. For customers to unlock the full opportunities of AI in their public cloud environments, they lean on a wide variety of services and expertise from their technology providers, specifically the partners within the AWS Partner Network.”

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