The KenyaEMR is a tailored distribution of OpenMRS which meets the requirements laid out in the Kenya Ministry of Health document:
2011 Kenya EMR Standards and Guidelines
. KenyaEMR was originally developed by
I-TECH
and is currently supported by
Palladium Kenya under KHMIS Project
The distribution has been deployed to over 1450 health facilities in Kenya.
Installation
Sites that are part of the official rollout will receive KenyaEMR as part of a complete appliance release. This is the recommended way to deploy KenyaEMR in a production environment as the appliance provides other important functionalities such as automated backups. However, KenyaEMR can also easily be installed as a distribution release (a set of modules) or built from the source code.
See
KenyaEMR Installation Guide
for more information.
Modules
The modules that make up this distribution are a mixture of distribution-specific modules, modules that are potentially re-usable by other distributions, and other general-purpose community modules.
See
KenyaEMR Distribution Modules
for more information
Customization
We expect other organizations implementing KenyaEMR will want to customize it by adding additional content specific to their sites. KenyaEMR has been designed with this in mind and has an API that allows add-on modules to add new content such as forms and reports. We strongly encourage developers who plan to do this to join the official mailing list so that they are notified of changes to KenyaEMR and it's API.
See
KenyaEMR Developer Guide
for more information.
User interface
KenyaEMR uses the new
OpenMRS UI Framework
module to create an entirely new point-of-care oriented user interface. Many of the fragments, decorators, stylesheets, icons, and scripts are maintained in a separate module called
Kenya UI
which allows them to be more easily reused in different projects, especially add-on modules.
See
KenyaUI Module
for more information.
KenyaEMR Deployment Geomap (as of Sep 2021)
Implementation Summary
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KenyaEMR is deployed in 44 out of 47 counties in Kenya, supported by 33 service delivery partners (SDPs)
Total ART patients being managed through the system is estimated at more than 80%
(s
ource: National Integrated Data Warehouse
KenyaEMR Deployment Geomap (as of Sep 2021)
Implementation Summary
__________________________________
KenyaEMR is deployed in 44 out of 47 counties in Kenya, supported by 33 service delivery partners (SDPs)
Total ART patients being managed through the system is estimated at more than 80%
(s
ource: National Integrated Data Warehouse
Integration with other systems
KenyaEMR supports seamless data exchange with other systems within HIS ecosystem through an interoperability layer (IL) which acts as an information broker between systems while enforcing standards. Supported systems include:
NB:
More efforts still being focused on further integration with other systems in the country.
Sample Interface Screenshots