Combining vital events registration, verbal autopsy and electronic medical records in rural Ghana for improved health services delivery

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 160, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 416-420

  Ohemeng Dapaah, Seth ^a   Pronyk, Paul ^b   Akosa, Eric ^a   Nemser, Bennett ^b   Kanter, Andrew S ^b,c  

^a Millennium Villages Project   (Ghana)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Birth records; Community health information systems; Electronic health records; Ghana; Health information systems; OpenMRS; Verbal autopsy; Vital statistics

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; MEDICAL COMPUTING; RURAL AREAS; STATISTICS;

AFRICA; BIRTH RECORDS; COMMUNITY HEALTH; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; GHANA; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPENMRS; VERBAL AUTOPSY;

PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 78649528651     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-416     Document Type: Conference Paper

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