I also recommend talking to Baobab Health in Malawi (www.baobabhealth.org). They implement a point of care clinical decision making system that also acts as a personal health record. They've done a lot of great work on hardware and connectivity solutions that work in low-resource environments. See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2919419/ -----Original Message----- From: change-bounces@change.washington.edu [mailto:change-bounces@change.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Yaw Anokwa Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 2:17 AM To: Walter H. Curioso Cc: change Subject: Re: [change] Personal Health Records in Resource-constraint settings Walter, Take a look at Dimagi's work on SmartCare (Zambia's national EMR/HMIS). I think this is more in-line with what a classic PHR is. SmartCare patients carry a SIM card like device that stores all the patient's records. I'm pretty sure someone from Dimagi is on this list, so maybe they'll chime in. http://www.dimagi.com/smartcare/ http://www.jhpiego.org/en/content/zambia-leads-way-smartcare-electronic-heal... Martin Were's work on clinical decision support might also be a good place to look. AMPATH in Kenya has been considering the use of the printed summaries as a personal health record for patients. I've been working on a mobile version of the system for providers, but there is no technical reason why patients couldn't eventually use the mobile client (ditto with the rest of the mobile OpenMRS work that's going on). Changing course to make clinical decision support work in an HIV clinic in Kenya (IJMI 2010) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20089444 Design of a phone-based clinical decision support system for resource-limited settings (ICTD 2012) http://cs.washington.edu/homes/yanokwa/publications/2011_ICTD_DecisionSuppor... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skV25YchXlE Hope that helps, Yaw On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:20, Walter H. Curioso <wcurioso@uw.edu> wrote:
Dear all, I´d like to know if you have experience with succesful implementations of personal health records in resource-constraint settings/developing countries. Any information (laws, regulations, evaluation papers, etc) or national plans will be appreciated.
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