Clinics introduces better digital platform to improve healthcare
To revolutionise healthcare in Africa, EHA Clinics has introduced a Better Digital Health platform (BDH) and its low-code tools to boost EHACare, an ecosystem of workflow-driven tools to support clinical care, community health, clinical research, among others.
Its Chief Executive Officer, Adam Thompson said: “EHACare is an exciting system that supports our delivery of quality, impactful healthcare. Working with Better has enabled us to build our vision for the future of data-driven healthcare with an ecosystem of applications tailored to managing quality, exceptional customer experiences, and improving health outcomes.”
Also speaking, International Markets Director at Better, Jovan Pavićević, said: “Normally, our market focus is on regional and national deals, or larger hospitals and trusts. By creating a more robust solution, and with the utilisation of the low-code tools, we are able to support small teams that want to build something big. If you think about it, three people in 12 months to build an EMR with 80 use cases, has left me speechless and make me incredibly proud of both EHA and our team. ..”
In the future, we will focus more on similar care providers in Africa and globally by offering the solutions developed by EHA Clinics to jumpstart others’ development even further.”
In 12 months, a team of three experts have developed an electronic medical record (EMR) with more than 80 clinical u cases that are currently being used by over 195 clinical personnel and covering 33,700 patients across five EHA Clinics and their Community Health Programme-REACH.
As a data and guideline-driven healthcare organisation, EHA Clinics decided to go into its development of EHACare to be able to design workflows by itself and fully control the system.
The key benefit for them was the ability to build reusable content packages that can be shared across different applications, and an interoperable platform that can be customised to their requirements, as well as to be able to use standardised datasets and clinical guidelines and apply those to various clinical settings from acute outpatient, in-patient, home care, community health outreach, and digital health platforms.
EHACare’s first application is focused on standardising the clinical workflows and improving the delivery of care in all five clinics, as well as their home care and telehealth clients. The solution is designed to integrate seamlessly with other clinical applications in finance, operations, pharmacy, and lab. EHA Clinics also plans to expand the solutions further and build other applications.
First, to implement a dedicated workflow tool for pharmacy, nursing (inpatient care), home care, telehealth, and their community health teams, and thus improve the integration of Care Plans, Clinical Guidelines, SOPs, and Clinical Decision support across the various applications.
Also to build a quality management application to support various management tasks related to chart reviews, clinical audits, and tracking of quality indicators, and a research platform and health observatory that enables EHA Clinics to analyse their health outcomes across the patient population and target improvements in key areas like early detection of cancer and the management of chronic diseases.
