We’re either designing new functionality for the System, building that functionality or supporting clinics with technical issues. …and just very occasionally, we need to fix a Bug!

Over the last few months we have been focusing on two large projects, alongside Clinic Support - Project Connect & Custom Plugins for Hope for Haiti.

Project Connect …is a collaboration with the Ugandan Ministry of Health (MoH) and will achieve interoperability with DHIS2. Interoperability is when two different computer Systems ‘talk to each other’. DHIS2 is the World’s most popular Health Informatics system – and in use in each of the Nations we serve – it transforms raw health data into meaningful information, that Ministries can use to spot health trends, allocate resources most effectively.

The COVID-19 pandemic taught us all the importance of data, in terms of managing health inputs and fighting disease. Project Connect is doing exactly the same for Low Resource, High Impact Clinics across Uganda… We collect the data in the Primary Care Health Centres using Outreach EMR, we anonymise and aggregate that data, and pass it to DHIS2. Interoperability!

We are in the final stages of certification with the Ugandan MoH and hope to be deploying this important new functionality before the end of the year. We may be the first supplier to achieve this in Uganda – all enabled by your support. Thank you!

Hope for Haiti Custom Plugins 

The Outreach EMR System has a modular architecture, which means that it is built-up of a series of ‘blocks’ of functionality, and clinics can pick and choose from a library of Plugins and build the System to meet their clinic’s needs.

It also means that the System can evolve, elegantly, in terms of functionality. ‘Extensible’ in programming parlance. As a joint venture with Hope for Haiti, we are developing three custom plugins. Improvements to our Prescriptions and Cash Plugins, and a totally new Dentistry Plugin.

These mini-projects are a Joint Venture in that although Hope for Haiti are funding the developments, once complete, they will be made available to all of our clinics. In this way, our clinic partners who can afford to fund new development, benefit all our hundreds of thousands of patients, which is just fabulous.

Thank you Hope for Haiti!

Bass Stewart, Systems Development Lead.