Experience implementing electronic health records in three East African countries.

Introduction: Efficient use of health care resources in low-income countries by providers and local and national managers requires timely access to patient data.

Objective: To implement electronic health records (EHRs) in HIV clinics in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Results: We initially developed and implemented an EHR in Kenya through a mature academic partnership.

Concept dictionary creation and maintenance under resource constraints: lessons from the AMPATH Medical Record System.

The challenges of creating and maintaining concept dictionaries are compounded in resource-limited settings. Approaches to alleviate this burden need to be based on information derived in these settings. We created a concept dictionary and evaluated new concept proposals for an open source EMR in a resource-limited setting.

Experience in implementing the OpenMRS medical record system to support HIV treatment in Rwanda.

The challenge of scaling up HIV treatment in Africa has led to a new emphasis on improving health systems in impoverished areas. One aspect of this is the development and deployment of electronic medical record systems to support HIV and TB treatment. In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a new medical record architecture to support an HIV treatment program in rural Rwanda.

Cooking up an open source EMR for developing countries: OpenMRS - a recipe for successful collaboration.

Millions of people are continue to die each year from HIV/AIDS. The majority of infected persons (>95%) live in the developing world. A worthy response to this pandemic will require coordinated, scalable, and flexible information systems.