Using Electronic Medical Record Data to Improve HIV Patient Monitoring, Clinical Decision-Making, and Quality Improvement: Lessons from Rwanda

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015:216:880.

Abstract

In developing countries, clinical guidelines and patient follow-up are primarily paper-based. We describe the use of Electronic Medical Record data for evidence-based clinical decisions and improved HIV patients monitoring in rural Rwanda.

MeSH terms

  • Clinical Decision-Making / methods*
  • Developing Countries*
  • Electronic Health Records / statistics & numerical data*
  • HIV Infections / diagnosis*
  • HIV Infections / therapy*
  • Humans
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / statistics & numerical data*
  • Quality Improvement / statistics & numerical data
  • Rwanda