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Table 1 mHealth and eRecord systems in use at surveyed health facilities

From: Interoperability opportunities and challenges in linking mhealth applications and eRecord systems: Botswana as an exemplar

eRecord systems/mHealth applications Description DBMS Public Hosp. (n = 7) Private Hosp. (n = 2) Public clinics (n = 3) Private clinics (n = 3) Total
Integrated Patient Management System (IPMS) An integrated and centralised patient medical record system with 12 interoperable modules. Currently at all public hospitals, and some clinics Microsoft SQL (Relational) 7 – 3 – 10
Patient Management Information Systems (PIMS) A standalone system for management of HIV patient’s medical records and used in clinics and health posts, which do not have IPMS Microsoft SQL (Relational) – – 3 – 3
R-Care Health information system which supports clinical, financial and procurement modules Procedural Languages PL/SQL (Relational) – 1a – – 1
Sukraa Hospital Information Management System Sukraa health information system supporting all clinical data management and linked with the SAP suite for supporting the billing module Microsoft SQL (Relational) – 1a – – 1
Laboratory Information Management System (Senaite) An open source system customised for specific laboratory workflows (complete circle of laboratory specimen sample) Zope Object Oriented database (Non-relational) – – – 1 1
TriMed systems Patient administration services from registration to discharge from the hospital, including billing and medications Microsoft SQL (Relational) – 1b – – 1
District Health Information System (DHIS2) An open source Web based system used for capturing aggregated data on patient diagnosis at each of the health districts Postgre-SQL (Relational) 7 – – – 7
OpenMRS An open source system for capturing/storage of TB patient’s data MySQL (Relational) 7 – – – 7
Mobile Telemedicine (Kgonafalo) mHealth application to communicate patient data and images between facilities and specialists at referral hospitals. Services included: oral medicine, radiological services, dermatology and cervical cancer screening MySQL (Relational) 1 – – – 1
Arcus Air (web based) Used within medical wards (EMR) for medical record keeping and related clinical services MongoDB (Non-relational) – 1b – – 1
Optima Used for patient registration, billing and report generation Microsoft SQL (Relational) – – – 3 3
  1. DBMS—database management system
  2. SQL – Structured Query Language
  3. a, b—refer to two Private hospitals that both used two different systems
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

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