Lacor Hospital adopts Streamline for their Pediatric oncology unit. The implementation begun in June, 2018. St. Mary’s Lacor hospital is the largest health centre in Gulu serving Northern Uganda. The hospital hopes to adopt Streamline to the other departments as well.

Streamline is a customisable Electronic Medical Records Software suitable for use in resource poor settings. Streamline is designed to be very flexible so that local staff can update it. In contrast to many systems where changes take time to organize and are often costly, Streamline is easy to customise and update by users whilst ensuring data protection is robust.

Streamline includes safety prompts and resources for staff directly relevant to a patient’s specific clinical problem.  It incorporates early warning system data to identify and prioritise sick children or adults to ensure critical care is not delayed.  Streamline builds in Uganda Ministry of Healthguidance. Streamline Health  facilitates communication of patient care between different staff professionals.

Streamline allows data such as x-rays and lab reports to be linked to patient records and facilitates better care should the patient re-attend.  Streamline stores chronic diagnoses and treatments making data entry much quicker. Many patients lose their medical forms and x-rays and may consequently have unnecessary investigations etc. but Streamline allows 24-hour access to summary data on patients’ attendances and warns staff of patient allergies etc. Streamline is the perfect software for use in hospitals in resource poor settings.