The big picture

The Master Facilities List is one of the building blocks of the Kenyan National Health Information System. The second edition of the MFL is focused on interoperability, standardization and unification.

Interoperability

This system adopts an API First approach, as explained in the Using the API - basic principles chapter.

The authors have gone to great lengths to make it easy for other systems - with the correct authorization - to read and write MFL data.

Standardization

The MFL’s core mission includes the standardization of facility codes. In this edition, the core mission has been expanded to include the standardization of service codes. You can read more about that in the The service catalog chapter.

Unification

The first generation of the Master Facilities List ( and its “satellites” ) had five semi-independent systems: public and administration systems for the “core” MFL, a mirror of those two for the Master Community Units List and a regulators interface.

This release unifies them all under a single API. That API is client agnostic - the client could be a web or mobile application, another system or even a reporting tool.

Note

A future release of this system could standardize more things e.g practitioner codes.