Paper Info
Title
A Standards-Based Open Source Application to Gather Health Assessment Data in Developing Countries
Abstract
Many organizations are working in developing coun- tries to support local health care organizations and infrastructure to provide sustainable, community-based health care. This requires not only the influx of medical staff and supplies, but also requires maintaining individual health care records and enabling the ability to collect, analyze and aggregate data in the field to customize care to the local needs of the community, and to provide continuity of care to its citizens. The recent rise of adoption of standards for electronic health records(EHR) provides an alternative to using paper forms in mobile health clinics that often serve these countries. In this paper, we describe an open-source, standards-based health assessment software application developed by the non-profit organization Health Records For Everyone (HR4E) and field tested in a mobile health clinic in rural Ethiopia in the fall of 2011. The application allows mobile health clinic staff to quickly deploy medical clinics and collect patient data electronically in the face of various environmental challenges. In addition to producing electronic patient records which are validated in-field using HL7's Clinical Document Architecture standard, the application allows medical practitioners to view and summarize patient data for in-field analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/GHTC.2012.78
GHTC
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile communication,health care,public domain software,medical technology,health
Health care,HRHIS,Nursing,Health technology,Knowledge management,Developing country,Aggregate data,Health assessment,Health policy,Medicine,Clinical Document Architecture
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.42
2
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alex Gainer130.76
Mary Roth2435.66
Philip Strong331.09
James Davis45940.71