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The Kenya Health Work Force Project is a project to move health informatics in Kenya from a paper system to a computer-based database. They are being assisted by the Georgia Tech Research Institute and the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing. [1] [2] It is being led by Martha Rogers. [3]
Maternal and child healthcare. The 2010 maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births for Kenya is 530. This is compared with 413.4 in 2008 and 452.3 in 1990. The under-5 mortality rate, per 1,000 births is 86 and the neonatal mortality as a percentage of under-5's mortality is 33. In Kenya the number of midwives per 100,000 live births is ...
v2.39 / 27 Oct 2022. Type. Health management information system. License. DHIS 1 (1.4): GPL. DHIS 2: BSD. Website. www.dhis2.org. DHIS2 (also spelled DHIS 2, formerly District Health Information Software) is a free and open-source software platform for the collection, reporting, analysis and dissemination of aggregate and individual-level data.
The leading causes of DALYs in Kenya in 2016 included HIV/AIDs 14.65%, diarrhoea diseases 12.45%, lower back and neck pain 2.05%, skin and subcutaneous diseases 2.47%, depression 1.33%, interpersonal violence 1.32%, road injuries 1.3%. The burden of disease in Kenya has mainly been from communicable diseases, but it is now shifting to also ...
Endrov Image and data viewer and editor. It is available under the BSD license. [40] GIMIAS is a workflow-oriented environment focused on biomedical image computing and simulation. It is available under a BSD-style license. [41] Ginkgo CADx Cross-platform open source DICOM viewer and dicomizer.
Health information technology (HIT) is "the application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, health data, and knowledge for communication and decision making". [8] Technology is a broad concept that deals with a species' usage ...
The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) is a state corporation established through the Science and Technology (Amendment) Act of 1979, (since amended to the Sciences, Technology and Innovation Act 2013), during the tenure of Nicholas Biwott as Minister of State, [1] as the national body responsible for carrying out health research in Kenya.
The Health Metrics Network (HMN) was a global health partnership focused on strengthening health information systems in low and middle income countries, launched in May 2005 during the 58th session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) and dissolved on 31 May 2013. [1] Hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, the HMN's ...