Evaluating the impact and costs of deploying an electronic medical record system to support TB treatment in Peru.
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2007-01-22
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The PIH EMR is a Web based electronic medical record that has been in operation for over four years in Peru supporting the treatment of drug resistant TB We describe here the types of evaluations that have been performed on the EMR to assess its impact on patient care reporting logistics and observational research Formal studies have been performed on components for drug order entry drug requirements prediction tools and the use of PDAs to collect bacteriology data In addition less formal data on the use of the EMR for reporting and research are reviewed Experience and insights from porting the PIH EMR to the Philippines and modifying it to support HIV treatment in Haiti and Rwanda are discussed We propose that additional data of this sort is valuable in assessing medical information systems especially in resource poor areas