Tagged in OpenSRP Enterprise

Work - August 18, 2022

Why the WHO SMART Guidelines and FHIR are necessary for universal health access

Half of the world’s population is unable to obtain essential health services or the typical healthcare services offered in large facilities. The rise of community health workers and community health service programs have been transformative, but they are at the limits of their ability to improve outcomes.

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Tech - June 01, 2022

Eight Reasons Why FHIR is Important for Global Health

FHIR is a data standard evolved from HL7, which pioneered the field of health data exchange. Importantly, since its introduction a decade ago, it has become the globally accepted standard describing how to represent and exchange health data.

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Work - April 12, 2022

Closing immunization gaps by integrating OpenSRP and Rapidpro

In its effort to reduce child mortality, Zambia has wholeheartedly embraced digital health. However, in the race to close immunization gaps, the country adopted two health systems that work independently: Rapid Pro at the community level and OpenSRP at health facilities. This disconnect created conditions for data fragmentation, inaccurate reporting, and duplicated efforts.

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Perspective - April 04, 2022

Powering interoperability with a FHIR to DHIS2 adapter

The HL7 FHIR standard is emerging as an integral solution to the much discussed interoperability challenges in global health. However, there are many operational platforms that use proprietary formats and there is a large quantity of data “locked” in those proprietary formats. As new projects go live at scale we are building tools to 1) unlock

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Press - March 16, 2022

Gratitude for a great Symposium on Open Guidelines for RDTs 2022

What would the world look like if everyone had access to Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Covid-19, Malaria, and other communicable diseases, that could be read and easily understood on a smartphone, and that were used as soon as the first person in your community showed symptoms?

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Press - March 03, 2022

Join us for a virtual Symposium on Open Guidelines for RDTs

What if the next time you opened any rapid diagnostic test (RDT) from any manufacturer for any condition, you can scan it with a WHO-approved and freely available smartphone app that would instantly recognize the RDT, authenticate it, support step-by-step instructions, read it with optimal sensitivity, interpret results based on the patient’s symptoms, medical record,

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Press - February 25, 2022

Introducing Quest: FHIR Native Case Management

HL7 FHIR provides a standardized and popular way for digital health systems to represent health data and  associated processes. We are excited to introduce Quest, an open source app that lets you use FHIR to define forms and capture data to take advantage of the growing Android FHIR and WHO SMART guidelines ecosystem.

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Work - December 17, 2021

Improving Automated Testing, Interoperability, and Privacy of OpenSRP

Through a committed collective of technology, research, and implementation partners, OpenSRP has matured into a fully-fledged digital health platform with multiple national deployments, high performing technology at scale, and emerging documentation around use cases for RMNCH, TB, HIV, malaria and early childhood development.

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Press - October 07, 2021

Google Summer of Code 2021

Ona and Google have been collaborating to bring to life code and API-driven healthcare guidelines based on the FHIR (Fast Health Interoperability Resources) standard.

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Work - October 01, 2021

Updates from Malawi: a data-driven approach with digital healthcare

Last October, we wrote about the impact of the Malawi eRegister on health services at the Bilira Health Center. We produced the OpenSRP-based eRegister platform through close collaboration with facility workers to support health activities such as antenatal care, maternity and delivery, and child health. 

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