Public Health
Outreach EMR ensures good health systems governance by providing easily accessible, real-time data on patients, drug prescription, and disease prevalence that can be used to target resources and manage budgets effectively. It does this through its ability to interface with the world’s largest health information management system, DHIS2, which is used in 73 countries.
More information on DHIS2 is available here.
Outreach EMR permits clinics to transfer population level health information to public bodies through DHIS2. This allows public bodies to:
- determine need
- allocate resources based on that need and
- identify trends or epidemics earlier than might otherwise have been the case.
It does so in a cost efficient manner. It also does it instantly with no data re-entry. This means that when the next epidemic or pandemic occurs, the government's reaction can be timely and based on real data.
Outreach EMR’s ability to be used in remote locations with no technology infrastructure (through our roaming functionality) and regular syncing of that data with the cloud means that data obtained through DHIS2 offers visibility to all data, including “hard to reach” from outreach work or clinics with no internet connection. For completely off-grid clinics Outreach EMR is available as a desktop solution and data can be uploaded when clinicians go to town.
Outreach EMR also encourages the achievement of a number of UN Sustainable Development Goals:
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG3, ‘Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages’
- SDG10, ‘Reduce inequality within and among countries’
- SDG17, ‘Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development’
How Outreach EMR helps achieve these goals
- Outreach EMR tracks conditions, including epidemics, allowing proper statistics to be recorded, appropriate treatment and other actions to take place to eradicate disease and assist clinics fight the epidemic of HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis, malaria, neglected tropical diseases and other infectious diseases
- Outreach EMR tracks immunisations, generating valuable statistics and encouraging immunisations to be given wherever possible (and avoiding repeat immunisation)
- Outreach EMR’s maternity add-on has been developed specifically to reduce neo-natal death
- By strengthening the health care provided Outreach EMR assists in the reduction of the inequality in health care provided among countries.
- If Covid-19 has taught us one thing it is No country can overcome this pandemic alone. Sharing of innovation, science and knowledge is in everyone’s interests and recommended by the United Nations.
- Outreach EMR works in a small way with under resourced communities to assist in achieving other sustainable goals.
- Strong international cooperation is needed now more than ever to ensure that countries have the means to recover from the pandemic, build back better and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
