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Appointment scheduling systems are utilized mainly by specialty care clinics to manage access to service providers as well as by hospitals to schedule patient appointments. When attending hospitals in Tanzania, patients experience challenges to see an appropriate specialist doctor because of service interval inconsistency. Timely availability of doctors is critical whenever a patient needs to see a specialist doctor for treatment and a serious bottleneck lies in the application of appropriate technology techniques to enhance appointment scheduling. In this paper, we present a mobile based application scheduling system for managing patient appointments. Furthermore, forthcoming opportunities for the innovative use of the mobile based application scheduling system are identified., Comment: 7 pages

Based on the fact that management of nutrition information is still a problem in many developing countries including Tanzania and nutrition information is only verbally provided without emphasis, this study proposes mobile application for enhancing management of nutrition information. The paper discusses the implementation of an integrated mobile application for enhancing management of nutrition information based on literature review and interviews, which were conducted in Arusha region for the collection of key information and details required for designing the mobile application. In this application, PHP technique has been used to build the application logic and MySQL technology for developing the back-end database. Using XML and Java, we have built an application interface that provides easy interactive view.

Although the basic application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the Tanzanian health care systems started years ago, still fragmentation of Information Systems (IS) and limited interoperability remain to be big challenges. In this paper, we present an analysis done on the present health care delivery service, HIS and on some of existing eHealth solutions focusing on interoperability and collaboration. Through interviews, questionnaires and analysis on e-health implementations in relation to interoperability and collaboration we have established that, the lack of standard procedures to guide the lifecycle of eHealth systems across the health sector and poor willingness to collaboration among health stakeholders are key issues which hinders the manifestation of the benefit of ICT use in the health sector of Tanzania. Based on the findings, we provide some recommendations with a view to improve interoperability and collaboration., Comment: 6 pages,2 figures