[Health] Health Digest, Vol 4, Issue 2

Sun Jun 15 16:37:36 EDT 2008

Niels,

Open MRS EMR seems to be the commonly used oepn source EHR in Africa and it
is currently being used in Kenya Moscoriot EHR system. Here is a link to
Open MRS website-http://openmrs.org/wiki/OpenMRS

Adesina

2008/6/14 <health-request at lists.laptop.org>:

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> From: "Niels Olson" <niels.olson at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Health] EMR for Losho, Masailand, Kenya
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> I have a friend who is going to Kenya June 25th to August 10th, her goal is
> to facilitate regular primary care visits, establish a usable, sustainable
> system of medical records, to link the incountry medical schools with this
> site. The villagers use cell phones (network unknown for now), power is
> available, the generator may be solar. Lots we need to follow up on. Total
> souls in the catchment area is guesstimated at 4000 to 7000. If we could
> establish a medical record system in this area it could become a model for
> other areas in Kenya or Africa.
>
> The main group goal is in the schools, my friend is the only medical
> person.
> I think the overlap potential is obvious.
>
> SO: can we set her up with VistA? Can we set it up on XO laptops? Will she
> have a client available? If not OLPC, then what about the new Dell E or the
> Asus Eee?
>
> Thoughts? Will follow up with the team's website and more particulars.
> D-Day
> for this is in less than two weeks.
>
> Niels
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> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:42:22 -0500
> From: "Niels Olson" <niels.olson at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Health] Fwd: EMR for Losho, Masailand, Kenya
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> response from Jeff Trotter below.
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> demo here: http://openmrs.org/wiki/Demo
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> Status of OLPC in Kenya is "red", whatever that means.
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Kenya
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Fred Trotter <fred.trotter at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:18 PM
> Subject: Re: EMR for Losho, Masailand, Kenya
> To: Niels Olson <niels.olson at gmail.com>, paul at openmrs.org
> Cc: nanthracite at verizon.net
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>
> Niels,
>        Nancy may well disagree but VistA is probably not the right
> project for your needs. It does not sound like you need "Hospital"
> features that VistA comes with, and might be able to get away with one
> of the lighter weight clinic focused web-based EHRs. Using a web-based
> EHR would ensure that you could use the low-cost laptops running
> linux. I believe there is some work being done to get VistA working in
> this environment but I do not know where that work is.
>
>        I would recommend OpenMRS. It is already designed for your
> environment and has been extensively deployed in what might be similar
> environments across Africa. I have included Paul from the OpenMRS
> project who will obviously be able to speak more intelligently.
>
>        There are other good web-based EHRs out there, but I think
> that the OpenMRS vision is most compatible with what you want to do,
> and would be the most receptive to developing or accepting patches
> that you might need.
>
> HTH,
> -FT
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Niels Olson <niels.olson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have a friend who is going to Kenya June 25th to August 10th, her goal
> is
> > to facilitate regular primary care visits, establish a usable,
> sustainable
> > system of medical records, to link the incountry medical schools with
> this
> > site. The villagers use cell phones (network unknown for now), power is
> > available, the generator may be solar. Lots we need to follow up on.
> Total
> > souls in the catchment area is guesstimated at 4000 to 7000. If we could
> > establish a medical record system in this area it could become a model
> for
> > other areas in Kenya or Africa.
> >
> > The main group goal is in the schools, my friend is the only medical
> person.
> > I think the overlap potential is obvious.
> >
> > SO: can we set her up with VistA? Can we set it up on XO laptops? Will
> she
> > have a client available? If not OLPC, then what about the new Dell E or
> the
> > Asus Eee?
> >
> > Thoughts? Will follow up with the team's website and more particulars.
> D-Day
> > for this is in less than two weeks.
> >
> > Niels
> >
>
>
>
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> --
> Niels Olson
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