HIT System

MEDICAL WEB APPLICATION

The Challenge

Global Health Initiatives GHI required an online system that would facilitate improved communication between clinics, laboratories, and mothers to ultimately improve care for HIV-exposed infants. They needed an application they could use, in clinics based in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, and Nigeria. It would need to be simple to use and would need to record mother and child patient information, all HIV testing results, show critical alerts based on pediatric HIV guidelines and inform the mother of the results via SMS texts for further diagnosis and care.

Online Application
Patient Database
Patient Alerts
SMS Notifications

Deliverables

Working with GHI and Utilizing ColdFusion and MySQL, the online HITSystem application was developed utilizing an algorithm based on the infant’s date of birth to establish alerts for the eight time-sensitive interventions for HIV-exposed infants. Once an infant is enrolled into the HITSystem, they are tracked until they are either 1) determined to be HIV+, initiated on HAART, and linked to lifelong pediatric HIV care, 2) conclusively determined to be HIV-negative at 24 months, or 3) accounted for the rare outcomes of infant mortality or transfer to another health facility. Every step of the EID cascade is monitored by the HITSystem to ensure appropriate service at the right infant age to maximize prevention and treatment outcomes, and targets excessive time lags for laboratory test results.