Andrew Kanter, MD MPH
About Andrew Kanter, MD MPH
Andrew Kanter is Director of Health Information Systems/Medical Informatics for the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Interested in application of ICT to health in the developing world, he has worked or traveled in more than 50 countries. Prior to joining Columbia, he spent 12 years with a private medical informatics company where he helped develop the Healthmatics EHR now being sold by Allscripts in addition to providing medical terminology and consulting services to other electronic medical record companies. He is currently appointed to Columbia University full-time in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics (College of Physicians & Surgeons) and Epidemiology (Mailman School of Public Health) while coordinating the development and implementation of the Millennium Global Village-Network (MGV-Net) for MVP. He directs the Columbia Global eHealth Program which brings together resources from the medical school, public health school and the Earth Institute for eHealth work around the world. His work focuses on bringing real-world solutions to resource-poor settings to help them achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Physician
Organization
- Columbia University
Language(s)
- English
Recent Contributions
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Andrew Kanter, MD MPH replied to "Clinic management software" in the Health IT community.
Jessica, We just finished doing a link between RapidSMS and OpenMRS which uses the Xforms module. We convert the SMS to Xforms and submit them and that seems to work. The RapidSMS system is now called ChildCount+ (www.childcount.org). Best, Andy
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Andrew Kanter, MD MPH replied to "MRN scheme" in the Health IT community.
Usman, I don't think this is a very good idea at all if you are looking for unique IDs. Obviously, if patients come back they might end up with a second number. I don't know what the serial number portion of the schema might be (except for sequential numbers) but generally this method is not good and cannot interoperate with other institutions or clinics, etc.. if they happen to have an Antenatal clinic, or perhaps ...
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Andrew Kanter, MD MPH replied to "MRN scheme" in the Health IT community.
I'd recommend starting a new thread to discuss ICD-10 issues, though... this is a big discussion. I would NOT put the codes in as concepts directly into your dictionary. It means that you then have to change your "instance data" in the record whenever codes change, which they do frequently. The OpenMRS model is to keep the concepts separately and provide mappings to the other code sets. For example, we have ICD-10 and SNOMED included ...
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Andrew Kanter, MD MPH replied to "PANEL DISCUSSION: Global perspective on using IT to measure and improve quality and safety" in the Health IT community.
I will now provide some introductory thoughts from our panelists, which will be followed by their responses to the first questions I posed. Please follow along and contribute questions or comments! David Bates, MD MSc: Information technology has tremendous potential to improve safety in healthcare from a number of perspectives, but this potential is just now beginning to be realized. Not surprisingly, many of the presentations at Medinfo in Cape Town related to this. Among ...
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Andrew Kanter, MD MPH replied to "PANEL DISCUSSION: Global perspective on using IT to measure and improve quality and safety" in the Health IT community.
Dean F. Sittig, Ph.D. Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics , The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Member, University of Texas, Houston-Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety My research interests center on the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of all aspects of clinical information systems. In addition to my work on measuring the impact of clinical information systems on a large scale, I am also working to improve our understanding of ...
Recent Recommendations
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