At the same time we had been working on the PTS software there was another US CDC sponsored group building a similar product called “Continuity of Care”. It was a very impressive system built by two US-based software shops Dimagi & Salar.
By the Spring of 2005 it was clear that PTS was working. We were collecting an unprecedented amount of data and, more importantly, it was the right data.
The immediate problem at the time was to get data out of the database to create the aggregated reports required by the US and Zambian governments …
At the beginning the purpose of what would become Zambia’s Electronic Medical Record was to capture data at specific times and locations in the flow of Patient’s through our Anti-Retroviral Care and Treatment Program …
What I was hired to do was to get data out of the system. In fact before I had started the system had been operationalized. But it was immediately obvious that while data seemed to be going into the system the two critical reports that needed …
This the first in a series of posts on the history of Zambia’s first national Electronic Medical Record or EMR. The project went though several name changes while I was part of it …
The class was structured around a once-a-week 2 hour seminar class with programming assignments that were completed as homework. I used a white board to illustrate various concepts, and in fact I tended to teach the class more like a High School math class …
