OpenMRS Implementations
AMPATH (AMRS)
Site
Eldoret, Kenya
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Organization
AMPATH Project
What is the scope of the implementation?
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- How many users?
Over 350
- What are the users' roles?
Providers (physicians, clinical officers, nurses), data managers, data assistants, system managers
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- Are data used in an interactive way or is it mainly based on a standard flow from paper form to openmrs OpenMRS to standard reports?
Paper forms are completed in the clinics and transferred to a central site for data entry. The paper forms along with reports are returned to the clinics.
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What is the primary goal and benefit of the implementation?
; Clinical care
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yes |
; Reporting to funders
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yes |
; Management/logistics e.g. drug supply
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yes |
; Research studies
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yes |
- What are the main challenges to making it work?
Overseeing large amounts of data entry
What systems do you have in place for data management and quality control?
The data managers are charged with generating exports and turning them into necessary reports
Africa Centre-PCIS
Site
Africa Centre-PCIS
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Organization
UKZN
What is the scope of the implementation?
- How many users?
Prototype is 2 clinics with 6 users, the target is 6 clinics.
- What are the users' roles?
Admin, nurse, supervisor
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- Are data used in an interactive way or is it mainly based on a standard flow from paper form to openmrs OpenMRS to standard reports?
Interactive and form to OpenMRS
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What is the primary goal and benefit of the implementation?
; Clinical care
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yes |
; Reporting to funders
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no |
; Management/logistics e.g. drug supply
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no |
; Research studies
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no |
- What are the main challenges to making it work?
Biometrics, decentralized data and sites
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Millennium Village Project - Sauri, Kenya
Site
Sauri, Kenya
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Organization
Millennium Villages Project, Earth Institute, Columbia University
What is the scope of the implementation?
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- How many users?
3-5
- Primary Languagelanguage?
English
- What are the users' roles?
Registration, data entry, reporting
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- Are data used in an interactive way or is it mainly based on a standard flow from paper form to openmrs OpenMRS to standard reports?
It's mainly based on a standard flow. Separate forms for Adult, Pediatric and Antenatal visits (general medicine) with same form for diagnoses, lab orders/results, medication prescribing.
What is the primary goal and benefit of the implementation?
; Clinical care
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yes |
; Reporting to funders
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yes |
; Management/logistics e.g. drug supply
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no |
; Research studies
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yes |
- What are the main challenges to making it work?
Power, connectivity, enough trained data entry-personnel
- What systems do you have in place for data management and quality control?
Training, regular exports to evaluate and aggregate data, centralized concept management, terminology service bureau
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Millennium Village Project - Mayange, Rwanda
Site
Mayange, Rwanda
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Organization
Millennium Villages Project, Earth Institute, Columbia University
What is the scope of the implementation?
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- How many users?
3-5
- Primary Languagelanguage?
French
- What are the users' roles?
Registration, data entry, reporting
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- Are data used in an interactive way or is it mainly based on a standard flow from paper form to openmrs OpenMRS to standard reports?
It's mainly based on a standard flow, separate forms for Adult, Pediatric general medicine visit along with separate form for medication entry.
What is the primary goal and benefit of the implementation?
; Clinical care
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yes |
; Reporting to funders
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yes |
; Management/logistics e.g. drug supply
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yes |
; Research studies
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yes |
- What are the main challenges to making it work?
Power, connectivity, enough trained data-entry - personnel
- What systems do you have in place for data management and quality control?
Training, regular exports to evaluate and aggregate data, centralized concept management, terminology service bureau
Partners in Health - Lesotho
Site
Lesotho (Mohana, Bobete)
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Organization
Partners in Health
What is the scope of the implementation?
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- How many users?
3
- What are the users' roles?
System developer(1), data entry(2)
- Are data used in an interactive way or is it mainly based on a standard flow from paper form to openmrs OpenMRS to standard reports?
standard flow
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What is the primary goal and benefit of the implementation?
; Clinical care
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yes |
; Reporting to funders
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yes |
; Management/logistics e.g. drug supply
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yes |
; Research studies
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yes |
; Reporting to local MOH
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yes |
- What are the main challenges to making it work?
Lack of power, lack of internet access at sites, program bugs, lack of features, getting clinical staff to properly use forms properly, clunky interface, explaining to staff why paper is entered through forms eg. what is directly entered and why
- What systems do you have in place for data management and quality control?
Daily back-ups (X3), No quality control system yet,
National AIDS Control Programme / University Computing Centre - Tanzania
Sites
Morogoro Regional Hospital (live), Tumbi Hospital Kibaha (in preparations), Ocean Road Cancer Institute (in preparations)
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Organization
National AIDS Control Programme / University Computing Centre
What is the scope of the implementation?
- How many users?
At each clinic 1-2 data entry, 1-2 IT/data manager, 1-2 clinicians
- What are the users' roles?
data Data entry, IT/data manager, clinician
- Are data used in an interactive way or is it mainly based on a standard flow from paper form to openmrs OpenMRS to standard reports?
standard Standard flow
- What would you like to add in terms of capabilities and uses?
better Better tools for implementers to set up user-friendly report and analysis features within OpenMRS itself, as at the moment we are relying on an external specially designed "report and export tool" to "talk" to the OpenMRS back end to produce reports
What is the primary goal and benefit of the implementation?
; Clinical care
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yes |
; Reporting to funders
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yes |
; Management/logistics e.g. drug supply
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no |
; Research studies
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yes |
- What are the main challenges to making it work?
it It works/will work at these heavily supported sites but scaling to other sites without the same capacity in IT personnel and hardware would be a challenge
- What systems do you have in place for data management and quality control?
Data check printout in the "report and export tool" allows user to tick various checks they wish to do and a printout is produced of the records violating those checks.
WHO - Uganda
Site
Masaka, Mbarara (up and running), Mbule
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Organization
World Health Organization
What is the scope of the implementation?
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- How many users?
4
- What are the users' roles?
1 developer, 3 data managers
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- Are data used in an interactive way or is it mainly based on a standard flow from paper form to openmrs OpenMRS to standard reports?
A little interactive, no standard reports yet
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What is the primary goal and benefit of the implementation?
; Clinical care
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Yes- Patient information is available for patient management |
; Reporting to funders
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Yes |
; Management/logistics e.g. drug supply
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Yes- Available data to inform drug orders and make forecasts |
; Research studies
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Data from the three sites will enable our participation in the IEDEA Research |
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- What systems do you have in place for data management and quality control?
Purely paper-based system for all the government aided sites and PEPFAR/CDC supported EMR for CDC/PEPFAR supported sites
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Baobab Health Partnership
Site
Malawi
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Organization
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Baobab Health Partnership
What is the scope of the implementation?
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- How many users?
25
- What are the users' roles?
Registration clerk, vitals clerk, nurse, clinician, pharmacist, admin
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- Are data used in an interactive way or is it mainly based on a standard flow from paper form to openmrs OpenMRS to standard reports?
Interactive
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What is the primary goal and benefit of the implementation?
; Clinical care
; Reporting to funders
; Management/logistics e.g. drug supply
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yes |
; Research studies
- What are the main challenges to making it work?
Funding, human resources (programmers)
What systems do you have in place for data management and quality control?
Quarterly reports to ministry, lots of data validation in real time
Desmond Tutu HIV Center
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Organization
Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation and Cell-Life
What is the scope of the implementation?
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- How many users?
20
- What are the users' roles?
Data Capturerescapturers, Data Managersdata managers, Doctorsdoctors, Researchersresearchers
- What tasks do users perform?
Data capture, data export, reporting
- Are data used in an interactive way or is it mainly based on a standard flow from paper form to openmrs OpenMRS to standard reports?
Mainly based on flow from paper to OpenMRS to reports but data are also used for research purposes.
- What would you like to add in terms of capabilities and uses?
Customized reports.
What is the primary goal and benefit of the implementation?
; Clinical care
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Not currently |
; Reporting to funders
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Yes |
; Management/logistics e.g. drug supply
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Not currently |
; Research studies
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Yes |
- What are the main challenges to making it work?
Fulfilling reporting requirements, retrospective data import, connectivity for distributed data capture.
- What systems do you have in place for data management and quality control?
Not very much at the moment (watch this space. . .)
Archive:PARTNERS IN HEALTH - RWANDA
Site
Partners In Health-Eastern Rwanda
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Organization
Partners In Health
What is the scope of the implementation?
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- How many users?
184
- What are the users' roles?
System developers, Data Managerdata manager, Data data assistant, Data data entry, clinicians, and providers.
- What tasks do users perform?
Data entry, data quality and accuracy review, reporting, clinical summaries view and alerting suspicious values.
- Are data used in an interactive way or is it mainly based on a standard flow from paper form to openmrs OpenMRS to standard reports?
In interactive way, initial and encounter forms are filled by clinicians and entered in OpenMRS. As feedback, patient summaries e-patient summaries are printed to be used during patients patient visits.
- What would you like to add in terms of capabilities and uses?
Synchronization tool to allow offline/remote data entry, make reporting tools easier to use.
What is the primary goal and benefit of the implementation?
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Clinical care
Panel Yes
; Reporting to funders
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Yes |
; Management/logistics e.g. drug supply
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Yes |
; Research studies
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Yes |
- What are the main challenges to making it work?
IT infrastructure and clinical team interaction with new technologies.
- What systems do you have in place for data management and quality control?
Evaluation of EMR data vs paper chart and automated reports of alerts or exceptions generated from EMR system.
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