The Baobab Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) System is currently used in more than ten sites throughout Malawi. It allows clients to anonymously be tested for HIV, Tuberculosis, and other
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diseases. Registration clerks, counselors and lab technicians enter the collected information into Baobab touchscreen systems in real time. Though counseling, referrals, and general awareness are the primary goals of any VCT centre, data collection analysis are a close second.
Until now, Baobab has used a proprietary data model for all of the data collection. With the latest release, Baobab has developed a set of SQL scripts that allows existing VCT deployments to migrate their data to the OpenMRS data model. By registering triggers in the MySQL database the system can continue to update the OpenMRS database as the VCT data is updated. This allows site facilitators to utilize open tools for analyzing the VCT data.
Why OpenMRS?
The Open Medical Record System is a common framework upon which medical informatics efforts in developing countries can be built. It is currently in use in Rwanda and implementations are being built around the world. Using a shared data model across disparate installations and regions enables wider analysis of successes, failures, and general trends. The shared data model will enable each site to improve care based on the comparable results, successes, and assessed need making a better experience for each client.
What about the Front-end?
At this time we are not releasing the Visual Basic frontend code that writes to the old data model and gets triggered into OpenMRS. We are happy to share the code - just get in touch. [Less]