Problem
Even in the world’s most advanced healthcare systems, streamlining the flow of health data is a massive challenge, complicated by legacy systems and a lack of interoperability. In the developing world, the problem is considerably more acute.
By most estimates, more than 70% of healthcare information in the developing world is still kept on paper. That means data doesn’t get shared between doctors, harmful tests get needlessly duplicated and patient data is less secure.
In low-medium-income-countries, 1 in 10 hospitalizations results in an adverse event — or a medical error that causes harm — and three percent of these errors cause the patient’s death. Research has shown that half of documented adverse event cases could have been solved or avoided by having a readily available medical record that proactively supported clinical decision making.
Solution
Stre@mline Electronic Medical Records (EMR) platform is an electronic patient record and healthcare information system platform that handles clinical, administrative and financial management. Stre@mline EMR covers all aspects of the patient journey aggregating data to facilitate clinical excellence and help hospitals to stop losing important resources like money, medicines, etc.
Stre@mline EMR is accessible using any smart device and is built using international standards for clinical data management, complying with HIPAA / HITECH regulations and embedding the principles for digital development.
Why is Stre@mline unique?
Automatic prompts
Automatic prompts appear relating to symptoms, investigations, diagnoses and treatments reminding clinicians of key practice points. This affirms knowledge or teaches new information. For example, for the diagnosis “Meningitis”, Stre@mline will prompt clinicians to consider whether it is appropriate to give a dose of steroids prior to the first dose of antibiotics.
Clinical references
Stre@mline provides references relating to symptoms, investigations, diagnoses, treatments and procedures. A single click takes the clinician to the precise page in the reference. These include various WHO manuals such as Managing Complications of Pregnancy & Childbirth and to Uganda Clinical Guideline and many of the drugs are directly linked to the latest Ugandan dispensing guideline information. In addition, institutional protocols are immediately available e.g. for Stroke, Psychotropic Medication etc
Facilitates clinician input
Stre@mline utilises Clinician-entered diagnostic and procedure data ensuring a high level of accuracy compared to previous systems involving non-clinical staff recording data retrospectively. This means a reliable data set for audit purposes. As all patient data is captured in the system it means 100% prospective audit rather than a low percentage on retrospective audit where often some records are not traced etc.