Projects

The following is a list of eHealth Nigeria’s completed eHealth/mHealth projects.

Mobile Community Based Surveillance

January 2011 – Current
The mCBS project was designed to give traditional birth attendants the ability to report vital maternal and child health events in real time using mobile phones. A text-message based system was designed which alerts near-by health officials, as well as the community midwife, when a TBA is witnessing a vital maternal health event. This system reduces the second delay in receiving maternal care (delay in reaching care), because it provides health officials with the opportunity to respond to the event immediately by phone or in person. Also, if a woman is traveling to a health facility, the health officials located at the facility will know that the woman is coming, what maternal complication she is experiencing, and can be ready to treat her when she arrives at the health facility.

The system also serves as a database in which the vital maternal and child health event, how the health professionals responded to the event, as well as the woman and child’s health outcomes, are stored. This provides health officials with up-to-date and accurate health statistics.

GeoMapping for IDU Exploratory Study

December 2010
eHealth Nigeria worked with the Population Council, Nigeria to enhance a project they were working on involving female drug users in Nigeria. One of their objectives was to map out the drug “hot-spots” in 4 different cities across Nigeria. eHealth Nigeria helped them to accomplish this objective by creating an ODK form that collected GPRS, photos, video, and important information about each location.

Minjibir General Hospital

February 2010
eHealth Nigeria did its second EMR implementation at Minjibir General Hospital in Kano, Nigeria. This time, the EMR was designed to cover every ward in the hospital, not just maternal health. The implementation was enhanced with training support from Pathfinder International, which works with the hospital on maternal and child health programs. In one week, the hospital had three computers running OpenMRS with multiple wards participating in the data input process.

Shehu Idris College of Health Sciences and Technology

September 2009
eHealth Nigeria implemented an electronic medical records (EMR) system using OpenMRS for the Shehu Idris College of Health Science and Technology (SICHST) in Kaduna, Nigeria. The project was designed specifically to determine the effect EMRs had on maternal and reproductive health. The three-month process resulted in electronic forms for all clinical areas, greatly reduced data duplication and created a monthly reporting process that takes only seconds.