EMR4DW committee member Dr Elizabeth Fowler and her husband Mark, who has worked in Africa before, are busy planning for their trip to Uganda later this month. They will be visiting 4 clinics currently using EMR4DW for their medical records system. As well as taking out replacement wifi routers and computer cabling they will be carrying reconditioned laptops generously donated by a local York business. These are necessary to maintain EMR4DW as a service for patients in these remote poor areas.
They are also very excited at the prospect of being able to download the brand new version of EMR4DW which is currently being beta tested for these clinics. The area has no reliable internet so each clinic has a 'land based' system with EMR4DW loaded onto a master laptop in each clinic. These master laptops will need to be taken 3 hours away to a local town with sufficient internet to allow the EMR4DW IT experts, here in the UK, to download the latest version onto them. This can take up to 5 hours! Afterwards they will both be very busy with essential staff training.

Dr Elizabeth will also be involved in seeing patients and teaching the nurses and midwives.

This is essential work and all of us at EMR4DW wish them a safe and successful trip.
Watch the blog for further news from Uganda.