Invitation to test UgandaEMR 3.0 with Point of Care Functionality

[Paul Mbaka]

Dear UgandaEMR Community;

 

Greetings from the Ministry of Health – Division of Health Information

 

Over the years, the Ministry of Health (MoH) with support from PEPFAR has spearheaded the rollout of Electronic Medical Records Systems (EMRs) in various health facilities across our healthcare sector. One of this EMRs is UgandaEMR which is currently implemented in over 1100 health facilities mainly for HIV care. 100% of these UgandaEMR installations are based in the data rooms for retrospective data entry. This implementation approach, together with program monitoring, surge for quality, and epidemiologic analyses have brought Uganda close to HIV epidemic control.

 

Reaching and sustaining epidemic control will require establishing health information systems(HIS) that provide patient-centered services, improved data precision, support implementation of programmatic priorities required for epidemic control, and support health information exchange (HIE) to support national reporting. Harnessing the power of EMRs to ensure immediate availability of relevant information in the system for improved clinical decision support to enable better patient management leading to better health outcomes is therefore important.

In order to achieve greater data precision to support patient-centered care, index testing, recency testing, retention on treatment and sustained viral load suppression, rapid deployment of robust EMR systems that provide benefits to healthcare delivery becomes critical. This also fits in well with the MoH’s strategic direction now requiring EMRs to improve medical record management, health program management, and the quality of patient care. The point-of-care (POC) EMR model becomes critical and a priority. With POC EMR implementation, the clinician will be able to deliver healthcare products and services to patients at the same time to capture the patient’s clinical documentation into UgandaEMR.

 

The POC approach has benefits for the health care providers using the system, the patients receiving care, and those responsible for monitoring and evaluation (M&E). The POC also offers the opportunity of delegation of EMR system operation across health workforce and minimizing reliance on donor-funded data entry clerks, improvements in data completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of reports, clinical decision support, immediate availability of information in the system to the health care providers while managing the patient, Improvements in efficiency, supporting a team-based approach to patient management,  encoding of clinical protocols and guidelines in the system as  well as calculation of indicators among the other benefits.

 

The MoH in collaboration with the Makerere University School of Public Health (METS Programme) has over the last few months worked intensively to improve the value proposition of UgandaEMR to support POC across all programs and diseases. As an entry point, the UgandaEMR POC covers only the HIV clinical workflow, however, plans are underway to add in MCH, TB, OPD, IPD, special clinics among others.

 

The realization of the POC EMR system is a collaborative effort involving various stakeholders. It is at this point that I invite you to review and test the functionality of the latest version (3.0) of UgandaEMR.  

 

To access the UgandaEMR online test demo, kindly follow the link below: http://aijar.mets.or.ug:8080/ugandaemrpoc

 

Login credentials: Username: manager   Password: Manager123

 

We encourage you to review and test the system and give us timely feedback. Kindly forward your feedback to any of the following UgandaEMR official communication channels:  1) UgandaEMR WhatsApp channel;  and 2) email to:  ugan...@googlegroups.com and copy in jmp...@musph.ac.ug.

 

After this testing phase, we shall communicate to you when the system is ready to be deployed at a health facility setting. We thank you all for your continued support as we move forward to digitizing our healthcare.

 

Paul Mbaaka – Ag Assistant Commissioner Health Services

Division of Health Information

Ministry of Health

[Jostus Kule]

Noted,

Will revert shortly!

Rgds.

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Kule Jostus

Biostatistician

District Health Office - Bundibugyo

P.O Box 1183, Bundibugyo - Uganda.

Cell: +256 (0) 782 542690 / 701 962378 / 792 542690

Email: jsts...@yahoo.com / justu...@gmail.com

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[murungi Pyc]

Noted 

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[Irene Nyakate]

Request received, however the provided login credentials don't work.

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Irene Nyakate

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[Jonathan Mpango]

Hi Irene,

Thank you for the feedback!

Let’s look into it and revert back.

Jonathan

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[David Damba]

Thanks Paul.

But failed to login with the credentials provided. Please advise.

 

Regards

David

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[MAGALA DICKSON]

I have failed to do the test because the user name and or Password is not accepting

[Nagasha Jolly]

I failed to login with the credentials provided too

Jolly

[Bibohere Jacob]

Dear METS team,

first login attempt was successful, but later you cant login anymore

Jacob Bibohere

M&E Officer

The AIDS Support Organisation -TASO Rukungiri

phone:+256 753774249 / mobile:+256 783679810

Email:bibo...@tasouganda.org

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From: ugan...@googlegroups.com <ugan...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Nagasha Jolly <nagash...@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 9:06 AM
To: MAGALA DICKSON
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Subject: [ugandaemr] Re: Invitation to test UgandaEMR 3.0 with Point of Care Functionality

 

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[Solomon Ssevvume]

Dear all,

Sorry for the inconvinience, you can now access the system using the above mentioned credentials

Ssevvume Solomon

MONITORING AND EVALUATION TECHNICAL SUPPORT(METS)

256-786151896

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[Jonathan Mpango]

Hi Justine,

Kindly use the following credentials:

U: manager

P: Manager123

Let us know in case you have any  further questions!!

Jonathan Mpango

Monitoring & Evaluation Technical Support (METS) Program

Makerere University School of Public Health; Plot 20A Kawalya Kaggwa Close

+256 (0) 756 524 011 | t: jompango | S: jmpango

Kampala, Uganda

    

On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 03:03, Justine Nampijja <justinena...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Thanx for the note.

When I logged in it gave 

ACCESS UgEMR

Invalid username/password. Please try again.

Username:
Password:
Select Location:	Select Location                                                          ART Clinic                                                          Lab                                                          MCH Clinic                                                          OPD Clinic                                                          Pharmacy                                                          Reception                                                          SMC Clinic                                                          TB Clinic                                                          Triage
	Can't log in?

Justine Nampijja

Biostatistician

Mityana

[Ivan Mwesigwa]

The User name and password not accepting

Ivan Mwesigwa
Biostatistician

Mukono District 
Tel: +256772564616/+256706360858
Email: ivan_gm...@yahoo.com/ ivan.gm...@gmail.com

skype: ivan.mwesigwa2

[Jonathan Mpango]

Dear community.

Kindly use the following credentials to access the system.

Username: manager

Password: Manager123

Kindly note:

The system has both retrospective and Point of Care approach; 

To access Point of Care follow the following steps:

1. Find patient
2. Under action, click check in icon
   
   
   
   
3. Select Entry point: ART clinic, Next service point: Triage, Urgency of care: Normal; On print out select cancel
4. Go back to system dashboard and select Triage since its the next service point the patient was directed to.
5. The follow continues...

To access Point of Care follow the following steps:

1. Find patient
2. Under action click Go to patient dashboard icon
   
   
3. Access the data entry forms

We shall be sharing out a complete user guide soon!

For feedback and inquiry, kindly forward them to: ugan...@googlegroups.com

Regards,

Jonathan Mpango - METS

Jonathan Mpango

Monitoring & Evaluation Technical Support (METS) Program

Makerere University School of Public Health; Plot 20A Kawalya Kaggwa Close

+256 (0) 756 524 011 | t: jompango | S: jmpango

Kampala, Uganda

    

[Nyatia Jones]

Thanks Badru for sharing.

I have tried to open the Demo portal, using the linkhttp://aijar.mets.or.ug:8080/ugandaemrpoc; with user name: manager and password: Manager123 but I'm unable to connect despite following the steps including selection of Location. Support.

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From: ssemata badru
Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 10:31 AM
To: M & E Officers
Cc: Assistant IMO; M&E_IT_SORP
Subject: Invitation to test UgandaEMR 3.0 with Point of Care Functionality

 

Dear M&E team;

    Kindly receive this for your information and can test the functionality of EMR 3.0 and provide feedback through UgandaEMR official communication channels: 1) UgandaEMR WhatsApp channel;  and 2) email to:  ugan...@googlegroups.com and copy in jmp...@musph.ac.ug.

   Access link -  To access the UgandaEMR online test demo, kindly follow the link below: http://aijar.mets.or.ug:8080/ugandaemrpoc

 

                                      Login credentials: Username: manager   Password: Manager123​

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Dear UgandaEMR Community;

 

Greetings from the Ministry of Health – Division of Health Information

 

Over the years, the Ministry of Health (MoH) with support from PEPFAR has spearheaded the rollout of Electronic Medical Records Systems (EMRs) in various health facilities across our healthcare sector. One of this EMRs is UgandaEMR which is currently implemented in over 1100 health facilities mainly for HIV care. 100% of these UgandaEMR installations are based in the data rooms for retrospective data entry. This implementation approach, together with program monitoring, surge for quality, and epidemiologic analyses have brought Uganda close to HIV epidemic control.

 

Reaching and sustaining epidemic control will require establishing health information systems(HIS) that provide patient-centered services, improved data precision, support implementation of programmatic priorities required for epidemic control, and support health information exchange (HIE) to support national reporting. Harnessing the power of EMRs to ensure immediate availability of relevant information in the system for improved clinical decision support to enable better patient management leading to better health outcomes is therefore important.

In order to achieve greater data precision to support patient-centered care, index testing, recency testing, retention on treatment and sustained viral load suppression, rapid deployment of robust EMR systems that provide benefits to healthcare delivery becomes critical. This also fits in well with the MoH’s strategic direction now requiring EMRs to improve medical record management, health program management, and the quality of patient care. The point-of-care (POC) EMR model becomes critical and a priority. With POC EMR implementation, the clinician will be able to deliver healthcare products and services to patients at the same time to capture the patient’s clinical documentation into UgandaEMR.

 

The POC approach has benefits for the health care providers using the system, the patients receiving care, and those responsible for monitoring and evaluation (M&E). The POC also offers the opportunity of delegation of EMR system operation across health workforce and minimizing reliance on donor-funded data entry clerks, improvements in data completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of reports, clinical decision support, immediate availability of information in the system to the health care providers while managing the patient, Improvements in efficiency, supporting a team-based approach to patient management,  encoding of clinical protocols and guidelines in the system as  well as calculation of indicators among the other benefits.

 

The MoH in collaboration with the Makerere University School of Public Health (METS Programme) has over the last few months worked intensively to improve the value proposition of UgandaEMR to support POC across all programs and diseases. As an entry point, the UgandaEMR POC covers only the HIV clinical workflow, however, plans are underway to add in MCH, TB, OPD, IPD, special clinics among others.

 

The realization of the POC EMR system is a collaborative effort involving various stakeholders. It is at this point that I invite you to review and test the functionality of the latest version (3.0) of UgandaEMR.  

 

To access the UgandaEMR online test demo, kindly follow the link below: http://aijar.mets.or.ug:8080/ugandaemrpoc

 

Login credentials: Username: manager   Password: Manager123

 

We encourage you to review and test the system and give us timely feedback. Kindly forward your feedback to any of the following UgandaEMR official communication channels:  1) UgandaEMR WhatsApp channel;  and 2) email to:  ugan...@googlegroups.com and copy in jmp...@musph.ac.ug.

 

After this testing phase, we shall communicate to you when the system is ready to be deployed at a health facility setting. We thank you all for your continued support as we move forward to digitizing our healthcare.

Shared by Mbaka Paul

Ministry of health

Thank you all

Badru Kak​akwi

[Jonathan Mpango]

Hi Edward,

Thank you for your kind words.

We look forward to more user testing feedback towards making UgandaEMR better. 

Together we can make it better!!!

Warm regards,

Jonathan Mpango

On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 at 11:45 AM, Muhumuza Edward <muhumuzae...@yahoo.com> wrote:

System looks good.

Muhumuza Edward
                               
Using correct figures to make informed decisions

On Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 12:52:17 PM GMT+3, Paul Mbaka <paul....@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Muhumuza Edward]

System looks good.

Muhumuza Edward
                               
Using correct figures to make informed decisions

On Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 12:52:17 PM GMT+3, Paul Mbaka <paul....@gmail.com> wrote: