Niels,<br><br>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-<a href="http://openmrs.org/wiki/OpenMRS">http://openmrs.org/wiki/OpenMRS</a><br>
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:05:45 -0500<br>
From: "Niels Olson" <<a href="mailto:niels.olson@gmail.com">niels.olson@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: [Health] EMR for Losho, Masailand, Kenya<br>
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I have a friend who is going to Kenya June 25th to August 10th, her goal is<br>
to facilitate regular primary care visits, establish a usable, sustainable<br>
system of medical records, to link the incountry medical schools with this<br>
site. The villagers use cell phones (network unknown for now), power is<br>
available, the generator may be solar. Lots we need to follow up on. Total<br>
souls in the catchment area is guesstimated at 4000 to 7000. If we could<br>
establish a medical record system in this area it could become a model for<br>
other areas in Kenya or Africa.<br>
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The main group goal is in the schools, my friend is the only medical person.<br>
I think the overlap potential is obvious.<br>
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SO: can we set her up with VistA? Can we set it up on XO laptops? Will she<br>
have a client available? If not OLPC, then what about the new Dell E or the<br>
Asus Eee?<br>
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Thoughts? Will follow up with the team's website and more particulars. D-Day<br>
for this is in less than two weeks.<br>
<br>
Niels<br>
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:42:22 -0500<br>
From: "Niels Olson" <<a href="mailto:niels.olson@gmail.com">niels.olson@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: [Health] Fwd: EMR for Losho, Masailand, Kenya<br>
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response from Jeff Trotter below.<br>
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demo here: <a href="http://openmrs.org/wiki/Demo" target="_blank">http://openmrs.org/wiki/Demo</a><br>
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Status of OLPC in Kenya is "red", whatever that means.<br>
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From: Fred Trotter <<a href="mailto:fred.trotter@gmail.com">fred.trotter@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:18 PM<br>
Subject: Re: EMR for Losho, Masailand, Kenya<br>
To: Niels Olson <<a href="mailto:niels.olson@gmail.com">niels.olson@gmail.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:paul@openmrs.org">paul@openmrs.org</a><br>
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Niels,<br>
Nancy may well disagree but VistA is probably not the right<br>
project for your needs. It does not sound like you need "Hospital"<br>
features that VistA comes with, and might be able to get away with one<br>
of the lighter weight clinic focused web-based EHRs. Using a web-based<br>
EHR would ensure that you could use the low-cost laptops running<br>
linux. I believe there is some work being done to get VistA working in<br>
this environment but I do not know where that work is.<br>
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I would recommend OpenMRS. It is already designed for your<br>
environment and has been extensively deployed in what might be similar<br>
environments across Africa. I have included Paul from the OpenMRS<br>
project who will obviously be able to speak more intelligently.<br>
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There are other good web-based EHRs out there, but I think<br>
that the OpenMRS vision is most compatible with what you want to do,<br>
and would be the most receptive to developing or accepting patches<br>
that you might need.<br>
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HTH,<br>
-FT<br>
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Niels Olson <<a href="mailto:niels.olson@gmail.com">niels.olson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I have a friend who is going to Kenya June 25th to August 10th, her goal<br>
is<br>
> to facilitate regular primary care visits, establish a usable, sustainable<br>
> system of medical records, to link the incountry medical schools with this<br>
> site. The villagers use cell phones (network unknown for now), power is<br>
> available, the generator may be solar. Lots we need to follow up on. Total<br>
> souls in the catchment area is guesstimated at 4000 to 7000. If we could<br>
> establish a medical record system in this area it could become a model for<br>
> other areas in Kenya or Africa.<br>
><br>
> The main group goal is in the schools, my friend is the only medical<br>
person.<br>
> I think the overlap potential is obvious.<br>
><br>
> SO: can we set her up with VistA? Can we set it up on XO laptops? Will she<br>
> have a client available? If not OLPC, then what about the new Dell E or<br>
the<br>
> Asus Eee?<br>
><br>
> Thoughts? Will follow up with the team's website and more particulars.<br>
D-Day<br>
> for this is in less than two weeks.<br>
><br>
> Niels<br>
><br>
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