The Electronic Patient Tracking System (EPTS) is the main PEPFAR system used to collect data on HIV patients and tp manage medical records in health facilities. There is need of a system that produces quality data for PEPFAR reporting and for MoH Health Management Information systems (HMIS). Jembi, as a specialized and dedicated organization with no role in health service delivery, is leading the process of updating, harmonizing and centralizing the OpenMRS EPTS platform in coordination with Friends in Global Health (FGH), Ministry of Health (MoH), and other PEPFAR clinical partners under CDC coordination and funding. There have been challenges managing report definitions because of different versions of OpenMRS being used by clinical partners as well as some differences in databases and concept dictionaries. In addition, different architecture models are being used by the partners to distribute and manage their EPTS implementations and data flow, with some of the clinical partners using a centralized model. In those models, each clinic connects to a district or provincial level server instead of each facility managing their own set of patient IDs to help with reducing patient record duplicates. The remaining partners have implemented standalone EPTS, OpenMRS, instances in each Clinic, which presents the problem of manually updating the version, merging data, and managing duplicates at higher levels. Jembi and FGH have been developing joint plans of action to address all these challenges and ensuring that the data collection and reporting of all PEPFAR clinical partners is harmonized, updated, and data are produced through a certified practice to guarantee quality of the data elaboration process and minimizing errors.
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Time of Jembi engagement:
3 years (Ongoing)
