2016-07-21 Developers Forum
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Uganda Implementation (@Stephen Senkomago Musoke, @Mpango Jonathan)
Biometrics (@Simon Peter Muwanga)
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Burke
Wyclif
Wila
Ada
Simon Peter Muwanga
Jonathan Mpango
Stephen Musoke Senkomango
Michael J. Healy
Darius
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Uganda Implementation (Smusoke, jmpango)
Biometrics (smuwanga)
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Uganda Implementation
History
Introduced to OpenMRS in 2005, running 1.6.3 in 20 health facilities in WHO-related project
In 2011, the Ministry officially adopted OpenMRS as a health care system. At the time, OpenMRS was used only for HIV care.
By 2015, additional versions were introduced, including 1.9, etc.
During OMRS15, the decision was made to implement OpenMRS Platform 1.11.6 in hospitals
Most sites are doing transcription (providers interact with patient & record data on paper, transcribed into OpenMRS later)
Starting a rollout plan
Had a training of trainers workshop recently (in May 2016)
Implementing partners are responsible for supporting and maintaining implementations
Planning upgrade process for >400 sites throughout Uganda (awaiting official notification from the Ministry, which just was released)
Targetting having 1000 facilities running OpenMRS throughout Uganda by end of 2017
Actively upgrading systems in Kampala
Active development Uganda EMR is managed centrally through Makarere University
Introduced in MCH (mother child health), laboratory, HIV
Discussing implementation of OpenMRS in the national hospital. Goal is POC (point of care).
Uganda Implementers Meeting planned September 6: http://om.rs/uganda2016
Questions
Is Uganda EMR a distribution of OpenMRS – i.e., a specific set of content, modules, etc. ?
Yes. Have developed a customized module to give a customized feel to OpenMRS
Aijar (means "health")
Uganda OpenMRS demo
What role does Makarere University serve in terms of development and capacity building/training?
5 developers have been hired to support implementation
Provides technical assistance with troubleshooting
Have CDC funding to assist with procuring equipment (e.g., solar panels, servers, etc.)
Is there any documentation for sharing on lab information system? How is it integrated to Orders?
Using a separate LIS ("LMS") in most locations
Link to LIS info website?
Planning on integration with existing LIS
Have created forms within OpenMRS to capture lab information directly into OpenMRS
What factors have contributed to the decision for national rollout to 1000 facilities?
Driven by Uganda eHealth
Data quality
Reporting to ministry (DHIS2) using DHI2 integration module
Making it easier for sites to extract data from the system
Has Uganda Team reached out to the KenyaEMR Team about lessons learnt? For example, some sites in KenyaEMR don't have supports after the rollout and system is not being used.
Yes. Have been in conversation with Steven Wanyee and Nicolas Ingosi
Have also spoken with folks in Rwanda (Bailly Rurangirwa)
Have benefited from OpenMRS Community (e.g., OpenMRS Talk)
How are terminologies/metadata managed?
All implementations use a distribution managed centrally.
This includes central management of concepts and other metadata
Plan is to manage concepts centrally and push them out to implementations
Sites manage their own users & permissions.
What are the pros & cons of working with OpenMRS software and community?
Software has steep learning curve
Community has been great in providing support
Keep finding "gems" along the way that make things easier
Local problems need to be solved locally
What are the top three things you would change in OpenMRS software or community that would help improve the Uganda rollout?
Automation of implementation management (e.g., automatically rolling out forms, metadata, etc.)
More overlap with OpenMRS community developers
Biometrics with OpenMRS
Discussion deferred due to technical difficulties on Uberconference
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