mHealth4Afrika - Co-Designing a Standards based Solution for Use in Resource Constrained Primary Healthcare Facilities.

Supported by the European Commission under Horizon 2020, mHealth4Afrika is co-designing and validating a modular, multilingual, state-of-the-art primary healthcare platform for use in resource constrained environments. Based on active consultation and collaboration with Ministries of Health (MoH), district health officers, clinic managers and primary healthcare workers from urban, rural and deep rural health centres in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and South Africa, mHealth4Afrika has co-designed a comprehensive range of health programs and associated functionality. This paper provides insights into how mHealth4Afrika is supporting a holistic, patient-centric, standards-based "cradle to grave" approach to replacing paper-based registries and program-specific (or siloed) electronic solutions installed in many cases by donors targeting specific diseases.

Health4Afrika - Implementing HL7 FHIR Based Interoperability.

Supported by the European Commission under Horizon 2020, mHealth4Afrika is co-designing and validating a modular, multilingual, state-of-the-art health information system addressing primary healthcare requirements in resource constrained environments. mHealth4Afrika has co-designed a comprehensive range of functionality and medical programs in partnership with Ministries of Health, district health officers, clinic managers and primary healthcare workers from urban, rural and deep rural health facilities in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and South Africa. This paper provides insights into how mHealth4Afrika is leveraging HL7 FHIR to support standards-based data exchange and interoperability between Electronic Medical Records and DHIS2.

mHealth4Afrika: Supporting Standards Based Integration of Medical Sensor Data.

mHealth4Afrika has introduced the use of CE approved medical sensors at the point of care in primary healthcare facilities in Africa as part of an integrated platform supporting primary health care services. This paper shares insights into the standards-based architecture and HL7 FHIR service developed to support data transfer from sensors with proprietary standards to populate the mHealth4Afrika electronic patient record via custom Android and Windows applications. The current iteration is being validated in healthcare facilities in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and South Africa.