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...
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
Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
Mbarara Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
4. Looking at your answer to question 3, comment on who should pay for the EMR system and its upkeep?
Considering…
Works Cited
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. (2012, May). Electronic medical records at the ISS clinic in Mbarara, Uganda.