Peter Millard

Peter Millard replied to "Clinic management software" in the Health IT community.

We recently had the same question when we were in the planning stages of adoption of an EMR system in Mozambique. We found it very difficult to ascertain the features that the various non-proprietary systems have, and are currently working on a study to delineate the features of each system. The systems we would like to evaluate incude: OpenMRS (several different varieties) WorldVista DREAM (Sant Egidio) MEDCAB Primary Health Care Records (PHCR) PIH-EMR (Partners in ...

Peter Millard replied to "Clinic management software" in the Health IT community.

Thanks, Hamish. OpenMRS is of course one of the systems we will study and we do plan to publish our results. We are concentating on outpatient EMRs and not paper based systems (like they use in Eldoret, Kenya). It is a big surprise to me that OpenMRS can be used in primary care, and we definitely want to learn more. When we were investigating 2 years ago it seemed like it would continue to be ...

Peter Millard replied to "Negative pressure devices for wound care" in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.

It is important to be sure that new devises are effective before promoting them. The Cochrane review suggests that there is still too little evidence that they are effective. Let's see some randomized controlled trials of their effectiveness, please. Cochrane review summary at http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD001898/frame.html

Peter Millard replied to "Clinic management software" in the Health IT community.

Hi Maria! I would love to discuss our study of functionality of existing EMR systems in resource-limited settings offline with anyone who is interested. Please contact me at millarp@pitt.edu Peter

Peter Millard replied to "EMR Recommendations" in the Health IT community.

This is a very important question, Timothy, and one which many are asking. It depends a great deal on which functionalities you are after, which resources (human and financial) you have, and what you expect to do with the product. We were also struggling with this and decided to launch a study to document the functionalities and costs of the various open-source options out there. We are currently evaluating several OpenMRS products, World Vista, DREAM ...