I am planning to deploy Open EMR in a country in Africa.
However, some of the patients will be part of several clinical research studies/programs (malaria, HIV, etc…).
Is there a way to group patients in specific program once they have been enrolled?
Can Open EMR be used to manage research programs?
If yes how.
If Open EMR can do that then it will be a total package solution for countries in Africa.
Hi,
Support for research studies would be a very useful addition to OpenEMR. I’d suggest having part of your discussion (your specific requirements etc.) publicly on the forums so other users/developers can weigh in. This will then give it the best chance of your hired professionals coming up with a solution/code that can be added to the official codebase.
thanks,
-brady OpenEMR
It would be great if you could share the objective of your research programme… If it is something to do with satistical sampling, then we have HIPPA De-identification module for OpenEMR
Yes, De-Identification is available with the latest release also. Enable De-identification from globals.php. Installation/Config info is available in the readme file from Documentation section.
How can we devise a searchable relational database with a schema such that a patient’s signs & symptoms, examination findings, and lab results can be entered in a specific format along with the therapeutic treatment and outcome. In this way we query the database to assess clinical therapeutic effectiveness and compare treatment options.
In a similar way to where we have the patient_data file schema, we can have a comprehensive diagnostic schema with all possible signs & symptoms, etc AND have it set up in such a way that the user can input the data from an online health questionnaire and have the data automatically sorted into the database in the appropriate fields columns, rows, etc. In this way every column entry will correspond to the same sign or symptom or left blank if not applicable.
It should then be easier to query and compare ICD-10 diagnosis, Signs & symptoms along with quantifying severity with subjective questionnaires, and objective testing and then be able to track progress in association with specific therapeutic treatment.