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Feature phones - Frontline Forms runs on a j2me capable phone and can send information to a desktop running Frontline SMS.
OpenMRS-jr - mobile app built on javarosa that supports patient downloads of information and form filling, plus sending that information into OpenMRS.
Any javarosa can submit an Xform via Xforms module into OpenMRS.
Open Xdata - runs on phones that may be cheaper than those that run javarosa.
Smartphone clients :
Sana - (formerly Moca Mobile) - primarily for telemedicine
- Can fill out an encounter form
- Take pictures, add multimedia, etc
- Submit to an ODS server that then feeds the information into OpenMRS ~
- This data can then be reviewed by external parties, who can return information back to the original phone
D-Tree's Andriod OpenMRS - effort effort to use features of OpenMRS on the android phone -
- Implemented the OpenMRS data model onto sqlite
- Added synchronization between the phone's instance and a server implementation, or to another device.
ODK Clinic - similar to OpenMRS Jr. Clinic -
- Can download patient information onto a mobile app and displays information
- Currently testing a system to download forms, let them be filled out, and to submit them - ( Also supports multimedia and location )
Current Status
- Android OpenMRS - pilots planned. More Info can be found here: OpenMRS 2.x Android Client
- Frontline Forms - not integrated into OpenMRS at all
- Messaging module - it's there and it works.Frontline
- Forms - not integrated into OpenMRS at all.ODK Clinic - very early. Not implemented anywhere yet
- OpenMRS-jr - released and being piloted by Hospital Albert Schweitzer Haiti (1st quarter 2012)
- Picorosa - IRD may have implemented in Pakistan.
- Sana - some pilots planned.
- Android OpenMRS - pilots planned. More Info can be found here: OpenMRS 2.x Android Client
- ODK Clinic - very early. Not implemented anywhere yet.
Needs
- Patient Messaging (see MoTECH)
- Ability for patients to contact physician/HMO on call
- Mobile client to facilitate back-to-care teams (case management)
- Giving clinicians access to clinical data at point of care (decision support - summaries, reminders)
- managing logistical data
- managing facility referrals
- getting realtime reports on phones to CHWs
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