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Gerry Douglas

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  • Baobab Health
    Website: http://www.baobabhealth.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: Malawi About: Baobab Health, a Malawi-based non governmental organization, has been addressing the HIV/AIDS crisis for the past eight years by applying medical informatics principles to resource-poor settings. The core of Baobab’s approach is the application of easy-to-use touchscreen clinical workstations at the point of patient care.

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  • United States

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  • English

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    Gerry Douglas replied to "Discusion with author of article describing Touchscreen HIV system in Malawi." in the Health IT community.

    Hi John, The current version of the ART EMR is built on an early version (V1.10) of the OpenMRS data model, but is not API compliant. A description of the complete software stack is shown in Text S3 of the PLoS Medicine paper, and can be viewed at ... http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/fetchSingleRepresentation.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000319.s003 In collaboration with Partners in Health - Malawi, we are in the process of merging the ART functionality of our EMR with primary care functionality ...

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    Gerry Douglas replied to "Discusion with author of article describing Touchscreen HIV system in Malawi." in the Health IT community.

    Dear Joaquin, Apologies for not responding sooner, I was in the field visiting new sites in the South of Malawi, then in transit to the States, then a week of catching up after the month away. With regard to expansion of the ART EMR, the Ministry of Health (MoH) is focusing on installing the system at high-burden sites first, as these sites have the greatest challenge in producing quarterly reports. In the paper (submitted in ...

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