Help Bring Electronic Health Records to the Developing World

[debtanddeprivation]

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Hi Everyone,

I'm a current MS2, and I have a friend working on designing a free EHR for use in low-income countries. Very simple, very elegant, very free- it's doing really cool stuff for data reporting and evidence-based interventions in places that don't have access to Epic.

He is currently looking for Prescribing MDs(not medical students) to run through a quick exercise using his user interface to see if he can make it more intuitive to use. If you know doctors(or PAs or NPs- anyone that can prescribe), that might be interested in contributing to this research, please send them this link:

https://research.neopostmodern.com/

Thanks a lot,

debtanddeprivation

 

[JamaicanHerb]

You are one of thousands of medical students that get it in their head that they need to design a free EHR. I don't know whether they are doing it for their CV or because they are delusional but you won't find much help from busy physicians.

 

[TooMuchResearch]

Your friend is working on designing something that reduces productivity, reduces time with patients, increases documentation burden, and that doctors don't like?

Tell your friend to stop!

 

[ChrisMack390]

This is not a relevant problem in low income countries. Freakin' ELECTRICITY is a problem in low income countries, nevermind a fancy EMR.

 

[evilbooyaa]

Lol at the focus on giving something that requires electricity and computers to a place that likely has a shortage of both of those things.

 

[sazerac]

Unless it runs on a flip phone, this is worthless. I have seen some of the most amazing stuff run on a flip phone in Tanzania / Kenya though. Every village is within walking distance of a dude with a solar 12V charger these days, and you get astounding distances with line of sight connectivity in the savanna, sometimes up to 1X speeds.

 

[SansaStarkMD]

WHY

 

[deleted503015]

Is Practice Fusion not workable in developing countries? (Free EHR used by my school's free clinic and a few solo PP doctors I know; clunky but effective)

 

[pulmoblast]

Maybe leave the "developing countries" alone ? The last thing they need is 15 pharmacy alerts to click through before they can give someone albendazole


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[link2swim06]

Well per your post, "i am a prescribing MD." No offense this is a dumb idea.

EMRs were made for billing purposes and bean counters. The purpose of the EMR was never to improve clinical care. Unless you are planning on billing your developing country's patients, you are wasting resources and should fund basic stuff.

Maybe use you time/effort to secure things like vaccines, antibiotics, water filtration, etc.

 

[sliceofbread136]

WHY

Could be useful for some future global health research maybe?

 

[Donald Juan]

Is Practice Fusion not workable in developing countries? (Free EHR used by my school's free clinic and a few solo PP doctors I know; clunky but effective)

I thought the VA's Vista EMR was also open source.