E-Health: Software Development and Implementation (EHSDI) is was a training course developed by Partners in Health and now starting its 3rd year of implementation in Rwanda, where it is now being implemented for 3 years in Rwanda. For the first two years it was run in partnership with the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) and in the final year with the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). The goal of the course is was to produce local software developers with the necessary knowledge and skills to develop electronic medical record software, specifically to develop modules for OpenMRS. The course is was 9 months long (the first year was 11 months) and a total of 34 students graduated from it.
Stages
The course is divided into two stages - a training stage and a production stage. The training stage is the longer of the two (7 months), and it is designed to cover all of the required technologies for OpenMRS development, as well as give the students a foundation in medical informatics. The production stage (2 months) is when the students develop production quality modules for OpenMRS according to the requirements of the Ministry of Health and other partners.
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| | Foundations |
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| | Computer architecture and maintenance, OpenOffice and presentation skills |
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| | Basic Java Programming |
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| | Language syntax, algorithms and object-orient programming |
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| | Building standards compliant web pages using XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery |
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| | Level 2 |
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| | Advanced Java Programming |
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| | Design patterns, regular expressions, multi-threading and JUnit testing |
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| | Linux administration, Tomcat, MySQL, infrastructure issues and staff training |
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| | J2EE application development using JSP, JSTL, JDBC and Hibernate |
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| | OpenMRS module development using Spring and the OpenMRS API |
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| | Medical Informatics |
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| | Medical data and coding, EMR systems, decision support systems, and pharmacy systems |
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Accreditation
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Examinations
The materials for examinations and student projects are downloadable in a separate file here.