About The Charity

Our health solution is a simple electronic medical records system (OutreachEMR) for use in clinics, small hospitals and even refugee camps in the developing world. Our vision is that Outreach EMR should be used by local communities free of charge. This system can measure disease prevalence and location. The solution is used to improve the care of the individual and to better target healthcare resources and education in the wider community. It uses an easy to learn, robust system that runs on inexpensive hardware and can be accessed by Windows, iOS and Android desktops, laptops and tablets or it can be hosted on our Cloud for settings with access to the internet.

Outreach EMR is designed as a simple, user friendly system which has sufficient functionality to make it efficient in challenging settings.

Workers with no computer knowledge have learnt the system in 8 hours.

History & Update

In early 2012 Dr Peter Smith went to Uganda to volunteer in a remote rural clinic, Bumwalukani. He recognised that while what he was doing was helping, there was no record of his consultations and no way of analysing the incidence of any particular disease or complaint.

On return to Yorkshire, Peter met with Bass Stewart, who runs a Yorkshire-based IT business, and the collaboration to develop an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) System (The System) began.

The Goals for the System are to:

improve the care of the individual and in particular to reduce child mortality in order to better target healthcare and education in the community by tracking disease prevalence and location.
be easy to learn, robust and reliable, and expandable in terms both of capacity and functionality.
run on inexpensive hardware that can be accessed by Windows, iOS and Android desktops, laptops and tablets
be hosted in the Cloud for clinics with access to the internet or locally for clinics with NO/intermittent internet connection

Peter and Bass knew they had an exciting product on their hands but realised that to maximise its success they would need further resources. So in late 2014 they formed a charity and invited six further Committee Members to join them, including another clinician with experience in Africa, Dr Bill Tams. Between them, the two clinicians have since spent over 12 months in Africa working in medical clinics and developing the system. All their travel and subsistence will continue to be self financed. Dr Elizabeth Fowler and her husband Mark have also visited on a similar basis and Dr Peter Burnett has joined the team.

The charity’s objective is:

“The relief of sickness and the preservation and protection of health by making available an electronic medical records system.”

We now have 8 established clinics in Uganda with many clinics spread across DRC, India, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Haiti, Jordan and The Philippines along with ongoing enquiries from other areas in Uganda and Haiti.

Our biggest clinic has over 60,000 patients registered!

In these areas we have the ability to measure prevalence of over 180 diseases and, using our simple search facility, can detect geographical pockets of increased incidence of killer diseases such as diarrhoea and malaria and then focus scarce health care resources accordingly.

We ARE making a difference!

(June 2022)