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Point-of-Care Medical Records

Technology that improves health and changes lives.

Effective electronic medical records systems can save time, resources, and most importantly patients’ lives.

AMPATH has developed a medical records tool called Point-of-Care that has dramatically improved HIV patient care and outcomes. Medical providers now use small tablets to enter and view essential patient information including vital signs, lab reports, and important alerts regarding care needs. And our HIV records platform is being adapted to treat chronic diseases, cancer, and more.

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Major AMPATH sites using digital records

220,000+

Patients registered in the Point-of-Care system

1 million+

Patient encounters logged so far

BENEFITS OF THE POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEM

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IMPACT REPORTS FOR PROVIDERS

Real-time data and reports show our impact suppressing and preventing HIV by the day, month and over years. Clinical sites can easily view reports on their progress with suppressing viral loads and with other patient outcomes.

PATIENT RETENTION & DECISION SUPPORT

Medical providers can easily see if patients missed appointments, need vital medicines, or are in danger of major health issues. The Point-of-Care system prompts provider action and supplies contact information to reach out to patients and encourage them to get the care they need.

SAVING TIME & RESOURCES

Tremendous energy goes into finding, storing and organizing hard copy patient files. Before Point-of-Care, patients had to wait hours sometimes just for their file to be located upon arriving at an appointment. Plus medical providers had to read through pages of reports and charts to understand a patient’s history. The Point-of-Care system replaces paper files with easy to use tablets, powered by solar and connected to 3G Wi-Fi networks.

FROM PAPER FILES TO PATIENT FOCUS

“The POC system has really changed the way we work. We’re able to be much faster and spend more quality time with children and their parents. Instead of focusing on paper files, I can focus on the child.”

- Victor, Clinical Officer at Moi Teaching Referral Hospital Pediatric Module

INFORMATION YOU NEED IN ONE PLACE

“All the patient’s key history is in one page, one screen. It’s amazing and so fast to enter the patient's vital signs. There has been so much less waiting time for patients.”

- Alice, AMPATH Triage Nurse

IMPACT REPORTS THAT WORK

“The Rafiki Center for Adolescent Health could only track our progress suppressing HIV viral loads months later. Now with POC reports, we can see everyday how we’re doing. And we can see reports on the teens that missed an appointment and need to come back to clinic.”

- Rompus, Rafiki Center for Adolescent Health