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ZEPRS Exceeds Five Million Patient Encounters
September 15, 2011

In continuous use by clinics since February 2006, The Zambian Electronic Perinatal Record System (ZEPRS) in Lusaka, Zambia, has now been used by clinicians to manage more than five million patient encounters.

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Zcore Available for Tomcat 7 and Windows 7/64-bit
September 13, 2011

A new build of Zcore is now available for the Apache Tomcat 7 web application server and the Windows 7 64-bit operating system.

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Quality Data for Quality Care in Zimbabwe and Tanzania
June 09, 2011

In Tanzania and Zimbabwe, two new projects funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and implemented by RTI, aim to the challenges of health information system strengthening. Both countries' governments recently introduced five-year health information system (HIS) strategic plans that lay out the critical issues and the necessary actions. The projects will strengthen the ability of the ministries of health to carry out these plans, by involving decision-makers at district, provincial, and national levels.

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Bridging the Digital Disconnect in Indonesia’s Education System
June 06, 2011

More than 90% of Indonesian households do not have a computer or Internet access. This poses a major challenge in many parts of life, particularly in education.

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31 Participants Trained on Zcore-DAR for Managing Pharmaceutical...
May 20, 2011

On March 29-30, a total of 31 pharmacists were trained in Nairobi to use the latest version of the Zcore-DAR software for managing pharmaceutical supplies.

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RTI Completes Training in Zimbabwe for New Disease Surveillance...
May 19, 2011

 On 12 May 2011, 25 participants from the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare (MOHCW) in Zimbabwe competed training in the use of their new, mobile-phone-based disease surveillance system.

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The Challenge of Scaling Electronic Medical Record Systems
September 09, 2009

Electronic Medical Record Systems (EMR) have the potential to improve the quality and timeliness of data essential to national health information systems (HIS). This presentation on that potential was given at the 2009 Public Health Information Network (PHIN) conference in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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Better Records Management for Better Healthcare in Kenya
February 12, 2009

In Kenya, where HIV infects 5% of adults, according to a 2008 UNAIDS report, access to antiretroviral (ARV) drugs is a critical health need. Public health centers receive their ARVs from the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA). However, the resupply of ARVs is based on a system that requires the typically understaffed centers to fill out monthly drug reports by hand and physically deliver them to KEMSA

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Public-Private Collaboration Makes Antiretroviral Therapy Program...
February 02, 2009

The Provincial Medical Office of Nairobi, Communications Commission of Kenya, Telkom Kenya, Axesstel, RTI International and Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), through its Wireless Reach™ initiative, are collaborating to implement a wireless health care project in Kenya that will improve HIV/AIDS treatment in Nairobi. The project harnesses the benefits of advanced 3G wireless technology to make the supply of antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) more efficient.

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