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- Requesting System: Any system that wants a community based health worker to find and follow-up with a patient. The requesting system will often be an EMR like OpenMRS
- CHIS: A Community Health Information System is an information system that supports the routine and emergency health care of a patient population within community contexts in defined geographic areas.
- CHW: Community Health Workers are the central users of CHIS. CHWs conduct household visits and are responsible for the health of their community.
- SHR: Shared Health Record is a centralized data repository for storing patient’s shared health record.
Workflows
High Level Overview
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From a very high level perspective, the workflow is designed around having the Requesting System determine which patients need to be followed-up with and a CHW trying to find the patient and recording the outcome of their attempt(s).
- Requesting System → Determine patients needing follow-up
- Requesting System → Send list of patients
- CHIS → Notify
- CHW→ Find patient and record outcome
- CHW→ Sync results
- CHIS→ Update with outcome of follow-up
High level data flow
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- Requesting system system determines which patients need follow-up
- Requesting system creates a "ServiceRequest" for each patient and sends the ServiceRequest to HIE
- CHIS queries the HIE to determine if there are any patients to follow-up with
- Requesting system returns results of query
- CHIS determines where or not to claim the service request
- CHIS "claims" the ServiceRequest to confirm that they will be following up with the patient
- CHIS tasks the appropriate CHW with finding and advising the patient
- CHIS records the results of the CHW's efforts
- CHIS updates the ServiceRequest
- Requesting system receives update
- Requesting system updates itself accordingly
Draft Indicators
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