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Gordon Otieno Odundo Chief Executive Officer

Gordon Otieno Odundo Chief Executive Officer. Technology Innovations for Better Health Management Electronic Health Records in Private Sector. AERIAL VIEW Gertrude’s Children's Hospital( google maps 2011).

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Gordon Otieno Odundo Chief Executive Officer

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  1. Gordon Otieno Odundo Chief Executive Officer Technology Innovations for Better Health Management Electronic Health Records in Private Sector

  2. AERIAL VIEW Gertrude’s Children's Hospital( google maps 2011) Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital, Nairobi ,Kenya is one of the few hospitals in Sub-Saharan Africa that is dedicated solely to the provision of healthcare for children

  3. Gertrude’s Children's Hospital Main Entrance

  4. Problem Statement • The need for Patient records portability due to many satellite • locations . Efficient medical documentation coupled with better • provision of care as a result of decision support systems that give • alerts on drug , food allergies and reduce prescription errors. • Huge storage requirement coupled with records misplacement is • a great concern.

  5. Process

  6. Proper Documentation – use of systematic templates , ICD10 and ICPM • Reduction of typo and prescription errors. • Drug and food alerts – reduce sentinel events • Patient Information portability & interoperability • Laboratory results available real time • Increase in revenue through efficient and automatic billing • Real time reports to support administrative functions and research

  7. Lesson Learnt • Challenges are getting the right system and full system adoption by staff • Electronic Health Records increase Efficiency , business processes and higher level of patient care • In 2010 , Obama administration announced spending of $975 Million by 2014 on 100,000 hospitals for EHR • Administration set Mandatory implementation of EHR by 2014 • Kenya Scenario – Private hospitals should embrace EHR to reduce cost of healthcare & improve care.

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