Dear Implementers, We at Médecins sans frontières are interested in using OpenMRS data model to underlie our new generation of medical data collection tools.
More and more of our operations are dealing with chronic diseases and/or states of malnutrition. To support following up our patients, we are thinking of introducing a medical record system in a pervasive way, yet masking out the complexity. Thus our strategy is to opt for OpenMRS data model, yet introducing only part of what is needed only, because our field users are not computer literate. For instance, for our "Street violence" project in Honduras, we collect data about young children living on the streets (name, sex), the type of abuse they were victims of (sexual agression, ...), when it occurred (1 hour, 6 hours ago...) and the treatment we provided (basic care, bandage, condoms distribution, ...). We meet the children again and then collect more data on the encounter. Since strolling the streets of Tegucigalpa with a laptop is the surest way of being mugged, we tally the children with a paper form and a digital pen. We go back to the point of care, download data into a CSV file, upload the file in a local data repository which we would like to build according to OpenMRS data model. We use QlikView to provide immediate synthesis / analysis of data to local social workers. So the question are: Is this a viable option? Keeping the full fledged data structure in the database engine, yet feeding it only with data related to operation at hand? If yes, who has experience rolling out OpenMRS that way? If your anser is Yes to question 2, are you going to Kigali? We would love to go, but our budget is tight so we need a compelling reason. Cordialement / Best regards / Freundliche Grüsse Thang Dao Directeur Systèmes d'Information - Médecins sans Frontières (Suisse) Information Systems Director - Doctors without Borders (Switzerland) Informationssystem Leiter - Aertze ohne Grenzen (Schweiz) Rue de Lausanne, 78 1211 Genève 21 +41 (0)22 849 8996 _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-implement-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l]
