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Content Packages are for you if:

You’re looking for ready-made content, like templates & forms for a specific specialty 🔎

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What is a Content Package?

A content package is a carefully curated set of resources including forms, concepts, metadata, reports and clinical guidelines specifically designed to support healthcare systems in managing program-related data and care. For example, the HIV Care and Treatment content package is designed to facilitate comprehensive and efficient management of HIV patients enabling seamless data capture and reporting to improve health outcomes.

Available Content Packages

Package Name

Contents Description

Contributing Organizations

HIV Care & Treatment

Clinical Forms:

  • The Enrollment Form supports registration of new HIV patients.

  • The Clinical Form supports capturing and tracking each HIV clinical visit. The form documents past medical history relevant to HIV, patient allergies, TB screening, reproductive health details, comorbidities and chronic conditions, immunization history, physical examination findings, treatment plans, tracking of referrals, ART adherence, and appointment scheduling.

  • The ART Therapy Form records patient regimens and regimen lines and also helps in tracking ART adherence and monitoring and managing the side effects of ART medications.

  • The Service Delivery Model Form facilitates the implementation of differentiated care models for stable clients, allowing for the scheduling and management of less frequent visits for stable patients.

  • The Mental Health Assessment Form is used to conduct and document mental health evaluations as well as to follow up on and manage identified mental health conditions.

  • The Disclosure Form facilitates the management of the patient’s HIV status disclosure process, including notifying partners and supporting counseling throughout the disclosure process.

  • The Contact Tracing Form is used to track and manage the tracing of partners and other significant contacts while documenting the outcomes of those efforts. This helps healthcare providers to identify individuals who may have been exposed to HIV through contact with the patient, to timely test and get intervention.

  • Patient Tracing Form:

Encounter Types: Encounter types represent the various clinical encounters (e.g., HIV Enrollment, ART initiation, follow-up visits) during which patient data is collected. Configuring encounter types involves defining specific visit types related to HIV care. For example, "HIV Enrollment Encounter" or "ART Therapy Encounter" would be added to reflect different stages of patient care.

  • HIV Enrollment Encounter: An encounter where a client is enrolled for care and Treatment Services

  • Clinical Visit Encounter: Encounter type associated with a clinical visit

  • ART Therapy Encounter

  • Contact Tracing Encounter: Encounter type that documents contact tracing outcomes related to an index client, including the identification and notification of partners and significant contacts.

  • HIV Death Encounter :

  • Mental Health Assessment Encounter:

  • Patient Tracing Encounter:

  • HIV Disclosure Encounter:

  • Transfer Out Encounter: An encounter type whose purpose is to document the transfer of a patient, ensuring continuity of care and facilitating communication between the transferring and receiving facilities.

Form and Workflows Metadata:

  • Forms (used to capture patient data) and workflows (how patients move through the system) are configured as metadata.

  • Metadata determines how the forms and workflows are structured, ensuring they are tied to the right encounter types and concepts. This ensures that data flows smoothly between clinical encounters and is captured correctly in the system.

Metadata and Concepts: The Columbia International eHealth Laboratory (CIEL) concept dictionary plays an integral in shaping the data structures and functionalities within the OpenMRS platform. The CIEL dictionary encompasses a wide range of concepts relevant to HIV care and provides standardized concepts that enhance consistency in data collection.

  • OpenMRS uses CIEL concepts to build clinical forms that healthcare providers use to capture patient data.

  • When new OpenMRS instances are set up, CIEL concepts are incorporated to ensure that the system is equipped with standardized terminology.

Programs: Programs are central to organizing care delivery and are used to reflect specific care initiatives e.g., HIV Care and Treatment Program. Patients enrolled in a specific program follow a defined set of forms and workflows to ensure they receive care appropriate to their needs. The HIV Care and Treatment Program for example is created to manage the lifecycle of care for HIV-positive patients. When a patient is enrolled in the HIV program, they automatically follow a series of predefined steps or workflows e.g., diagnosis, ART initiation, follow-up visits, adherence monitoring. Each step of care corresponds to specific forms designed to capture data in the patient journey. These forms are linked to the clinical concepts. The program structure therefore ensures that care is delivered consistently.

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How to use a Content Package

How to create a new Content Package

Creating a new content package such as an HIV Content Package involves several steps

  1. Purpose and Scope Definition: Begin by articulating the primary goal of the content package and identify the key components of this package. The scope of the HIV content package for example may cover HIV Testing, Care and Treatment, MNCH, Community Engagement etc. Scoping also required that you determine the specific population that the package will serve such as Adults living with HIV, Pregnant Women and Children, Key populations at risk for HIV etc

  2. Requirements Gathering: Gather inputs from a diverse group of stakeholders, including healthcare providers, data managers, etc to ensure that the content package is comprehensive and meets the needs of all parties. Also, determine the concepts and data elements that will be needed for the content package.

  3. Identification and Selection of Concepts: Creating a new content package such as an HIV Content Package, requires careful identification and selection of concepts to ensure it accurately reflects the necessary data elements for effective patient care and management. Concepts serve as the building blocks of the content package, providing standardized definitions for various clinical terms and data elements.

    • At the heart of metadata is the concept dictionary, which includes clinical terms (e.g., diagnoses, drug regimens, lab results) and how they relate to each other.

    • Concepts are selected from existing dictionaries (e.g., Columbia International eHealth Laboratory (CIEL)) and custom concepts are created as needed.

    • Begin by navigating the Columbia International eHealth Laboratory (CIEL) database, which houses a comprehensive library of healthcare concepts relevant to various medical fields, including HIV care. Search for relevant HIV-related concepts (e.g., diagnoses, treatment regimens, laboratory results).

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  1. Compile a list of concepts: Develop a comprehensive inventory of selected concepts and collaborate with healthcare providers and clinical experts during the selection process to gather insights on the most relevant concepts. Ensure that you reach a reach consensus among stakeholders on the final set of concepts to be included in the Content Package.

  2. Identify gaps in concept: If you discover that certain concepts essential for the content package are missing in CIEL dictionary, it’s important to seek solution to address this gap.

    • Document the Gaps: Create a document that outlines the missing concepts.

    • Consult with the CIEL Team: Consider contacting the CIEL team for assistance on how to incorporate or develop these concepts.

    • Engage Clinical Experts: Work together with clinical experts to define and create new custom concepts that address the identified gaps.

  3. Export or Integrate Concepts into the Instance: Exportation of the selected concepts involves transferring the curated concepts into the instance’s concept database. This ensures that all the selected concepts are readily available for use in the system. Consequently, the concepts are accessible for form building, data entry, reporting, and patient management.

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  1. Creation of Forms and Templates: Forms serve as the primary interface for healthcare workers to collect patient data in a structured way. Creation of forms therefore is a crucial step in developing a new content package. The process involves designing and structuring forms that align with the concepts identified for the package. Forms need to be developed in a way that they directly relate to the concepts integrated into the instance. Each field in the form should correspond to a concept (e.g., diagnosis, treatment regimen) in the concept dictionary.

    • With the O3 Form Builder feature in OpenMRS 3.x form creation has been simplified. The O3 Form Builder provides a drag-and-drop interface for creating forms, making it easier for non-technical users to configure forms. Users can add fields such as text inputs, checkboxes, radio buttons, and dropdowns, and map them to the added CIEL concepts.

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  2. Testing of the Content Package

How to publish a Content Package

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