The Health Informatics topic explores how clinical data, software architecture, and medical technology intersect to transform patient outcomes and healthcare operations across Africa.
Articles in this section examine the design and deployment of electronic medical records like Tembo EMR, practical implementations of healthcare data standards (such as LOINC, RxNorm and ICD-10), and the digitizing of frontline hospital workflows—from emergency room triage to specialty flowsheets. Readers will also find actionable insights on utilizing clinical informatics to improve patient safety, streamline insurance claim auditing, and structure data for biomedical research.
A medication may have a brand name, a generic name, a source-specific name, and even different generic names depending on where it is used. For usability in public health research and direct patient care, treating all of these as ordinary strings creates a surprisingly difficult…
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Imagine this. A few days after a successful hip replacement surgery, Mr. Adams returned home with a prescription for an anticoagulant to reduce his risk of blood clots. Everything was going well until he developed a persistent headache. Rather than returning to the hospital, he…
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In the Nigerian clinical space, something as simple as "blood sugar" is not actually simple. Depending on the hospital, lab, analyser, and available equipment, "blood sugar" could refer to: Each of these may be recorded differently: To a human, these might seem interchangeable. To a…
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers defines interoperability as the ability of a software (or hardware) to work with other products or systems and allow for information exchange. In healthcare, this is more than just a technical feature. Instead, it is a vital tool…
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