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Development of an Offline, Open-Source, Electronic Health Record System for Refugee Care

While electronic health records (EHRs) have been shown to be effective in improving patient care in low-resource settings, there are still barriers to implementing them, including adaptability, usability, and sustainability. Taking a user-centered design process we developed the Hikma Health EHR for...

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Autores principales: Brotherton, Tobias, Brotherton, Samuel, Ashworth, Henry, Kadambi, Adesh, Ebrahim, Hassaan, Ebrahim, Senan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8963945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35360368
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2022.847002
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Brotherton, Samuel
Ashworth, Henry
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Ebrahim, Hassaan
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description While electronic health records (EHRs) have been shown to be effective in improving patient care in low-resource settings, there are still barriers to implementing them, including adaptability, usability, and sustainability. Taking a user-centered design process we developed the Hikma Health EHR for low resourced clinics caring for displaced populations. This EHR was built using React Native and Typescript that sync to a Python backend repository which is deployed on Google Cloud SQL. To date the Hikma Health EHR has been deployed for 26,000 patients. The positive impacts of the system reported by clinician users are 3-fold: (1) improved continuity of care; (2) improved visualization of clinical data; and (3) improved efficiency, resulting in a higher volume of patients being treated. While further development is needed, our open-source model will allow any organization to modify this system to meet their clinical and administrative needs.
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spelling pubmed-89639452022-03-30 Development of an Offline, Open-Source, Electronic Health Record System for Refugee Care Brotherton, Tobias Brotherton, Samuel Ashworth, Henry Kadambi, Adesh Ebrahim, Hassaan Ebrahim, Senan Front Digit Health Digital Health While electronic health records (EHRs) have been shown to be effective in improving patient care in low-resource settings, there are still barriers to implementing them, including adaptability, usability, and sustainability. Taking a user-centered design process we developed the Hikma Health EHR for low resourced clinics caring for displaced populations. This EHR was built using React Native and Typescript that sync to a Python backend repository which is deployed on Google Cloud SQL. To date the Hikma Health EHR has been deployed for 26,000 patients. The positive impacts of the system reported by clinician users are 3-fold: (1) improved continuity of care; (2) improved visualization of clinical data; and (3) improved efficiency, resulting in a higher volume of patients being treated. While further development is needed, our open-source model will allow any organization to modify this system to meet their clinical and administrative needs. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8963945/ /pubmed/35360368 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2022.847002 Text en Copyright © 2022 Brotherton, Brotherton, Ashworth, Kadambi, Ebrahim and Ebrahim. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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