Affects of Openmrs on Healthcare Delivery in Africa

Healthcare -- Immune Suppression Syndrome Clinic

Who were the stakeholders? Who were OpenMRS's champions?

Answered in table below.

What were the expected benefits or improvements (potentials) from the EMR system (OpenMRS)?

Answered in table below

Looking at the list of stakeholders you came up with in question 1 and the list of potentials in question 2, discuss OpenMRS's achievements in each of these arena for various stakeholders.

Answered in table below

Stakeholders/Champions

Potentials

Nneka Emenyonu

A feasible and potentially scalable method to strengthen the evidence available for implementation of ART delivery in Africa

Through development and implementation of OpenMRS, practitioners and healthcare facilities are better able to coordinate ART delivery in Africa.

UCSF Team Members

Generating ample high-quality data

The systemic use of OpenMRS has assembled a wealth of well-organized, relevant data.

JCRC

Uniformity of data collection, categorization and transmittal.

The once-decentralized, haphazard method of healthcare resulted in equally haphazard data, which has been normalized, categorized effectively and is easily transmitted among healthcare providers and organizations.

MJAP

Uniform operational decisions in monitoring, evaluation

The differing and sometimes conflicting operational systems, monitoring systems and evaluation system, which overburdened healthcare providers and organizations, have been standardized, allowing all practitioners and healthcare organizations to learn and adhere to common best practices for operations, monitoring and evaluations.

MUST

Faster, more reliable data storage and retrieval.

OpenMRS has replaced the older, haphazard, overburdening paper system, allowing EMRs, other practitioners and organizations to easily store, access and use data.

WHO

Workable regulations of processes such as legibility or level of detail recorded.

Open MRS eliminates the problems associated with literal handwritten records, which are sometimes illegible and of varying details. Under OpenMRS, the typewritten data is uniformly legible and adheres to deeply-detailed record keeping.

NIH

Workable regulation of procedures.

The attempts to regulate procedures absent OpenMRS were a daunting endeavor, with data and standards that were not easily kept, analyzed and improved. With Open MRS, continually improving regulation of continually improving procedures is far more easily accomplished among healthcare providers and organizations.

FTF

Stronger, more flexible and more broadly accessible tool.

The focused and tailored tool of Open MRS has proven to be a durable, elastic and easily available instrument for analyzing needs and shortcomings, sharing data and ideas and continually improving healthcare delivery in many geographical areas by healthcare providers and organizations.

South African Medical Research Council

Regenstrief Institute

Millennium Villages Project

CDC

Rockefeller Foundation

Fogarty International Center

Google

AMPATH

PEPFAR

Global Fund

Government of Uganda

East Africa Regional IeDEA Consortium