Health

Referring patients

ndarcy — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:05:48 +0000

In Indonesia the Sistem Informasi Jejaring Rujukan Maternal & Neonatal (SIJARIEMAS) application connects more than 13,000 health providers and 700 health facilities to provide an efficient and thorough referral process.

RTI, partners develop web-based system to reduce HIV discrimination in Ghana

gmc — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:45:48 +0000

HIV-related stigma and discrimination remains a serious challenge in Ghana. The launch of a new web-based system in Ghana for handling cases of HIV-related discrimination is designed to improve access to justice for people living with HIV and key populations at higher risk of HIV.

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Disease Surveillance

abrooks — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:52:23 +0000

In Zimbabwe, RTI is working with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MOHCC) to improve disease surveillance using mobile phones.

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Wireless Access for Health Discussed with World Trade Organization Panel

gmc — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 21:17:18 +0000

Filipe C. Canlas, Monique Rodriguez, Philippine Ambassador to the WTO, Esteban Cornejos Jr., and Tarlac Province Governor Victor Yap discussed the Wireless Access for Health (WAH) experience at the World Trade Forum panel discussion on Re-inventing Innovation through Public-Private Partnership, October 2, 2013, in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Rural Health Care

gmc — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:18:16 +0000

The Wireless Access for Health (WAH) partnership in the Philippines has successfully introduced and scaled up the use of electronic health records in rural health units.

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Malaria Surveillance

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:47:02 +0000

Coconut Surveillance makes it possible to quickly follow up reported cases of malaria and to analyze transmission patterns and trends.

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Malaria Detection

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:19:29 +0000

Malaria Early Epidemic Detection System (MEEDS) is used by facilities to report new malaria cases via simple cell phones to detect epidemic outbreaks.

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Coconut

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:02:14 +0000

Coconut combines offline operation, automatic synchronization with local and remote databases, and centralized real-time data monitoring of data to create an essential tool for ‘capturing conversations’ in the field.

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ZEPRS Exceeds Five Million Patient Encounters

gmc — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:00:09 +0000

In continuous use by clinics since February 2006, The Zambian Electronic Perinatal Record System (ZEPRS) in Lusaka, Zambia, has now been used by clinicians to manage more than five million patient encounters.

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GIS Maps Produced using Data from Zcore-IRS

gmc — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:47:08 +0000

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The Zcore-IRS (Indoor Residual Spraying) application helps USAID-supported IRS operations in Kenya to collect and aggregate data from on-going spray operations at remote field sites. Data for each day's spraying, including details about each house sprayed or the day's spraying totals, is entered into the application. At the end of each data entry session, data are uploaded to the main data center and are available for reports.Maps on this page were produced by RTI Geographic Information System (GIS) specialists using the household data from the Zcore-IRS database.

Quality Data for Quality Care in Zimbabwe and Tanzania

gmc — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:24:05 +0000

In Tanzania and Zimbabwe, two new projects funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and implemented by RTI, aim to the challenges of health information system strengthening. Both countries' governments recently introduced five-year health information system (HIS) strategic plans that lay out the critical issues and the necessary actions. The projects will strengthen the ability of the ministries of health to carry out these plans, by involving decision-makers at district, provincial, and national levels.

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OpenMRS

gmc — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:10:11 +0000

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OpenMRS is a flexible open source medical record system designed around a powerful concept dictionary. It is supported by an international community and is in use in many countries around the world. RTI developed a level of interoperability between Zcore and OpenMRS, and is working with OpenMRS as part of national health information system strengthening efforts in several countries.

OpenRosa Tools for Data Collection

ckelley — Fri, 20 May 2011 10:00:20 +0000

RTI Completes Training in Zimbabwe for New Disease Surveillance System

gmc — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:52:26 +0000

On 12 May 2011, 25 participants from the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare (MOHCW) in Zimbabwe competed training in the use of their new, mobile-phone-based disease surveillance system.

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