BBC NEWS | Technology | Free medical tool tackles disease - 3 views
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Our mission is to build a health records system in support of direct patient care, on the ground for the very poorest of the poor,"
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Madeline Brownstone on 07 Oct 09Equality of Access
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The Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS) is providing countries, such as South Africa, with an online patient medical record system.
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This article is about the need for OpenMRS in developing countries such as South Africa. This is necessary because it will help improve how people are treated. By knowing about someone's medical history, it can help decrease the spread of diseases such as HIV and Aids. -
The issue is that there is a lack of open medical record systems in developing countries. Because of this diseases are being spread when they can easily be prevented. The thing that people were doing that gave rise to this issue is that in some countries, diseases were being spread at a faster rate then in others because of lack of background medical information. the impact that this has on people is that people in developing countries are spreading diseases at a faster rate. So diseases such as HIV and Aids are spreading in developing countries such as South Africa because of lack of medical background. The stakeholders are patients. The IT system is open medical record system. The area of impact is health. The social and ethical issue is equality of access. By having a medical record of everyone, people will be able to be treated equally because the doctor's will have their whole medical history.
