today is the day looking back on a year of serving in kenya
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Today Is the Day
Looking back on a year of serving in Kenya
Goals & Achievements
Implementing hospital management features– Registration– Finance– Pharmacy– Lab– X-ray
Goals & Achievements
Implementing hospital management features– Registration: simple implementation– Finance– Pharmacy– Lab– X-ray
Goals & Achievements
Implementing hospital management features– Registration: simple implementation– Finance: Cashier module– Pharmacy– Lab– X-ray
Goals & Achievements
Implementing hospital management features– Registration: simple implementation– Finance: Cashier module– Pharmacy: designed, development in progress• Supporting modules: Inventory and Work Order
– Lab– X-ray
Goals & Achievements
Pilot sites (faith-based and state-run)– Original mission hospital, AIC Naivasha
Medical Centre, moved ahead with different software.
– Alternative: AIC Marira clinic was a good fit• Initial deployment end of November
Goals & Achievements
Pilot sites (faith-based and state-run)– Original mission hospital, AIC Naivasha
Medical Centre, moved ahead with different software.
– Alternative: AIC Marira clinic was a good fit• Initial deployment end of November
– State-run site: Tigoni District Hospital
Goals & Achievements
Pilot sites (faith-based and state-run)– Original mission hospital, AIC Naivasha
Medical Centre, moved ahead with different software.
– Alternative: AIC Marira clinic was a good fit• Initial deployment end of November
– State-run site: Tigoni District Hospital• Participated in pharmacy module investigation• Scheduled for registration & cashier
implementation
Goals & Achievements
Building relationships– Kenyan programmers: Joseph Waweru
Goals & Achievements
Building relationships– Kenyan programmers: Joseph Waweru– CHAK: Refining and effective partnership
Goals & Achievements
Building relationships– Kenyan programmers: Joseph Waweru– CHAK: Refining and effective partnership– Other teams in Kenya:• Administrators at Kijabe Hospital• Kenyan OpenMRS Users Forum: I-TECH, AMPATH,
MVP
Moving Forward
New people at SIM– Mario Somrei: joining in August for up to two
years– Steve & Dawn Exley: visited for a week in June;
Steve is considering filling a project manager position
CHAK– Take on support of OpenHMIS sites, taking
support load off development team.
Moving Forward
Roadmap– Continue developing Phase 1 hospital
management features: 1 to 2 years– Build capacity for implementing at clinics and
hospitals and providing required support
Moving Forward
Future– We long for the future– We plan for the future– We can worry about / live in the future– We need to trust God for the future– We need to obey Him today
Today
“We walk by faith, not by sight”
“Now is the day of salvation”