The new Social Health Authority (SHA) is a major step by the government towards achieving the country's Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
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Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Robert Ingasira has highlighted the various innovations embraced by the medical scheme to ensure effective health services delivery to the citizens like digital enrolment and biometric identification, which draws its data from the National Registration Bureau (NRB) data base, electronic claims processing; fraud detection systems using artificial intelligence (AI) and Health Information Exchange among others.
Ingasira spoke when addressing the members of the public during the Second Annual Regulatory Authorities and Agencies (RAAs) Conference in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu county under the theme, "The Urgent Fortification of the Responsiveness by Regulators to the Campaign on the Revitalization and Re-energization of Regulatory Authorities and Agencies, with the byline being, Strengthening Regulators; Enhancing Compliance." Ingasira pointed out that the SHA (SHI Act) created in 2023 replaced the old NHIF system in order to make sure everyone can get health care without financial problems and aims to improve healthcare for all Kenyans through the three funds, namely, The primary Healthcare Fund (PHCF), Social health Insurance Fund (SHIF) and Emergency Chronic and Critical Illness Fund (ECCIF).
