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Introducing TSIS2: Jamaica's EMR for HIV based on Django

May 15, 2024
The Treatment Services Information System 2 (TSIS2) has greatly improved the ability to see and understand the progress being made in combating HIV/AIDS in Jamaica. It provides trusted information to inform the management of HIV treatment data.

Enhancing Outpatient Services: Advancements in OpenMRS OPD Features

May 15, 2024
Over five days, UCSF, OpenMRS and various participants worked closely together to expand the OpenMRS Reference Application (RefApp) to digitize the outpatient department (OPD) for better healthcare delivery.

Elevating Routine HIV Program Data Quality in Tanzania through CQI

May 13, 2024
The UCSF Informatics Hub, in partnership with CDC-Tanzania, has been working to enhance data quality at HIV care and treatment facilities in Tanzania.

The Journey of the REACT Form Engine

May 07, 2024
The UCSF Informatics Hub is working on the REACT Form Engine (RFE), formerly known as the OHRI Form Engine, a tool designed to enable users to create and display forms (i.e. patient registration forms and clinical assessment forms) within the OpenMRS 3 (O3) environment

PowerBI Trainings to Improve Global Health Security in the Middle Eastern Region

May 06, 2024
In collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the UCSF informatics hub recently conducted three PowerBI trainings focused on public health surveillance in Egypt and Jordan.

UCSF, University of Nairobi and Makerere University launch the first version of MambaETL, making reporting in OpenMRS faster and easier

January 29, 2024
UCSF and its partners announces the public release of the first version of MambaETL, a tool to significantly ease and speed up reporting in OpenMRS.

Informatics Hub uses Modular BI to support a complex case-based surveillance system for HIV

January 29, 2024
Large routine datasets are often complex with various levels of data quality and frequent reporting changes, required by donors, require a better way to process and transform these datasets. UCSF invented Modular BI — a process to make processing of large datasets easier while using SQL.

Namibia chooses SanteMPI to support its Master Patient Index

January 28, 2024
In order to better identify patients, Namibia’s Ministry of Health and Social Services wanted to establish a national master patient index. In response, UCSF and its partners implemented an open source tool backed by SanteMPI, to fill this need.