Description of Session
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) deployed Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Systems to support administrative, financial and clinical management of its hospitals. The new EMR software did not capture the monitoring parameters and indicators for HIV care. Several implementing partners operated across the hospitals with different data collection systems. Clinicians had to complete numerous care forms which were then ascribed by data assistants into parallel electronic /manual data reporting platform provided by Implementing partners. This resulted in data quality issues (accuracy, timeliness and completeness). This created a unique opportunity to collaboratively develop a technical specification document for integrating HIV care and treatment into EMR systems in FCT. Clinical, workflow and communication forms were then redesigned for all the HIV thematic areas and integrated into the EMR as a separate module with an interface for aggregate level data reporting. The next challenge is to integrate data from multiple HIV systems into a central platform with extensible architecture that enables vital HIV information to be shared across multiple systems including the National Health Management Information System to inform planning. decision making and resource distribution.
