Jaroka Electronic Health Record System provides opportunities for further Research and Analysis
Mardan Facility has been operational from September, 2008 based on the experience of one and a half year and a number of events & activities arranged before and after its opening the project has proved itself creatively successful and well received in the area.
Our hospital UMTrust is located in Zahidabad at the border of Buner District and therefore, we have seen a huge influx of refugees in our area in Summer 2009. There are more than 50,000 patients we have treated in year 2009. Out of which there were around 15,000 IDPs we have treated in rural Mardan in the days of regular operations.
A sample of 30,000 patients out of a total 50,000 reflects that 50.97 % are females, 29.01% are children and 20.02% are males.
It is amazing to see such enormous ratio of female patients in the underserved rural area of Mardan. Among these patients majority were women and children, which emphasizes the main objective of the Jaroka Telehealth Project i.e. to reduce maternal and child mortality cases.
Our calculation is dependent on run-time data gathered. The electronically saved records allows our doctors to see much more of a person’s medical history than do paper files. It also enhances practice efficiency. The real data that is being gathered with the help of OpenEMR provides research opportunities for us as well as stakeholders involved in our project.For example: With the help of data analysis we came to know the most common diseases in the area, statistics of patients for each month, requirement of medicines , preventive measures for diseases etc.
Currently our records collected by OpenEMR software showed that mostly people in Mardan are suffering from URTI/LRTI diseases. And patients suffered from this disease category were total in number of 5879. For your understanding you can view Patient Distribution Graphs below with respect to different disease categorize.
Patient Distribution Graph w.r.t Diseases.
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