ArticleFrontiers in public health2022
Improving TB Surveillance and Patients' Quality of Care Through Improved Data Collection in Angola: Development of an Electronic Medical Record System in Two Health Facilities of Luanda.
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- Towards Electronic Medical Record (EMR) utilization in developing countries: a conceptual model based on systematic literature review.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2026Pooled it
- Adoption of electronic health record systems to enhance the quality of healthcare in low-income countries: a systematic review.BMJ health & care informatics · 2023Pooled it
- AI-based multimodal integration of genomics and electronic health records.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026Review
- Strengthening comprehensive tuberculosis care in Angola: a scoping review of strategies, challenges, and potentialities in a high-burden setting.Public health reviews · 2026Review
- Enabling data-driven decision-making for innovative health care and delivery in Africa.npj health systems · 2025Review
- Digital health for Tuberculosis control: findings from the piloting of an electronic medical record in Luanda (Angola).BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2025Article
- Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a Community Hospital, Luanda, Angola.Emerging infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Impact of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic on access to health services in Angola: a focus on diagnosis and treatment services for tuberculosis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Observational
- The burden of tuberculosis and drug resistance in 22 Sub-Saharan African countries, 1990-2021: a GBD 2021 analysis and progress towards WHO 2035 targets with projections to 2050.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- The importance of "one health approach" to the AMR study and surveillance in Angola and other African countries.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Review
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Abstract
TB Programs should promote the use of digital health platforms, like Electronic Medical Records (EMR) to collect patients' information, thus reducing data incompleteness and low accuracy and eventually improving patients' care. Nevertheless, the potential of digital health systems remains largely unexploited in low-resource settings. Angola is one of the 14 countries with a triple burden of TB, TB/HIV and MDR-TB (multidrug-resistant TB) and it is among the three countries, together with Congo and Liberia that have never completed a drug-resistance survey so far. The Sanatorium Hospital of Luanda and the Tuberculosis Dispensary of Luanda are the two reference health facilities in Luanda dealing with most of the TB cases, and they both rely entirely on paper-based data collection. The aim of this paper is to describe a three-stage process for the development of a TB EMR system in these two health facilities of Luanda and to share the lessons learned. The description is focused on the activities that took place from March 2019 to January 2020. Main lessons learned were identified in the importance of engaging all the stakeholders in the development process, in the mainstream of the "think digital" transition, in the promotion of a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) culture and in the planning of the system's sustainability. This approach may be replicated in similar contexts where the development of a TB EMR system is sought, and the lessons learned could assist and facilitate the programming of the interventions.
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