Health records management system for community health centers
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2013-04
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Abstract
Individuals resident in rural areas have the problem of long distances between their
places of abode and the nearest health center. The goal of organizations and
research bodies has been to come up with solutions to bridge this gap. Some
solutions that have evolved include setting up community health centers in various
rural areas and adopting the use of mobile technology to bring health care to the
door step of residents in these areas. Some key aspects of such solutions include
ensuring mobility and providing tools to record data. Due to the ever increasing
number of people who own mobile phones, mobile technology has become one
solution with various areas of interests in order to develop mobile applications that
contribute to solving this problem. A mobile application that provides Community
Health officers with a tool for recording data to be made available to district officers
for decision making will help in various ways to reduce epidemics and assuage
existent epidemics in rural areas.
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Applied project submitted to the Department of Computer Science, Ashesi University College, in partial fulfillment of Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, April 2013
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Ghana, mobile app, community health workers, Health Records Management System