Existing Challenge: Substandard healthcare due to paper records system; Limited ability to monitor & track trends, resulting in lack of analysis/preventative activities.
SOCIAL & ECONOMIC BARRIERS
- Extreme poverty among rural poor, limiting access to basic healthcare
- High cost of accessing quality healthcare
- Long distances and related transport issues
- Paper medical records are time consuming, prone to error, loss and damages and do not easily support the monitoring of a patient
- Difficult to formulate targeted and focused health responses and preventative measures
- Started a community clinic with >6,000 visits,>13,000 diagnoses, >32,000 drug doses annually
- Provision of OPD care, dental, antenatal, immunisation & family planning
- Provision of health education, outreach and monitoring
- Developed an EMR system to better manage patient data & health
- Capturing, digitize and visualise patient data in real time
- Train staff in health information management & utilization
- Increased knowledge of data management amongst healthcare professionals
- Increased number of people benefiting from our health education interventions
- Increased community knowledge in healthcare improvement measures
- Increased health improvement initiatives designed & implemented for children, women & community
- Ongoing improvement in decision making, investment, patient tracking, oversight, stakeholder engagement
- Increased number of women & children accessing timely healthcare
- Increased productivity and wellbeing rate for children
- Health condition /illness trends in quickly identified and preventative measures put in place
- Increased efficiency in delivery of health care
- More rural clinics connected to the EMR system
- Patients report increased in confidence at accessing medical services and treatments
- Secure & sustained health intervention measures lead towards improved socio-economic wellbeing for children, women & wider community
- Primary Healthcare data enhances decision making, patient monitoring & red flagging community health risks leading to timely interventions and a healthier population
- More rural health units adopt Nyaka’s EMR system, as technology becomes an accepted means of improving health care in rural Uganda.
Rural Health Improvements through Nyaka’s EMRS
(Electronic Medical Records System)