Managing research and surveillance projects in real-time with a novel open-source eManagement tool designed for under-resourced countries

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 916-923

  Steiner, Andreas ^a,b,c   Hella, Jerry ^a,b,c   Grüninger, Servan ^a,b,c   Mhalu, Grace ^a,b,c   Mhimbira, Francis ^a,b,c   Cercamondi, Colin I ^d   Doulla, Basra ^e,f   Maire, Nicolas ^a,b,c   Fenner, Lukas ^a,b,c,g  

^a IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e Central Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory   (Tanzania)

^f National Programme on Tuberculosis and Leprosy   (Tanzania)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Data management tool; Electronic data entry; Open Data Kit; Open source software; Paperless; Real time monitoring

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; CONFIDENTIALITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LABORATORY TEST; MOBILE APPLICATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHARMACY; PRIVACY; REAL TIME TRACKING SYSTEM; REMINDER SYSTEM; RESEARCH; RETREATMENT; SMARTPHONE; SOFTWARE; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TEXT MESSAGING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; TANZANIA;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INTERNET; SOFTWARE; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84995802365     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocv185     Document Type: Article

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