HEALTH AND SECURITY RISK MANAGEMENT
TECHNOLOGY
We offer an IT solution that addresses the impact of the digital divide in healthcare by digitalising rural healthcare facilities.
The RuralPiServer was developed over 16 years, by Dr David Carman, a medical practitioner and health IT specialist who has worked extensively in both South Africa and Australia. He created RuralPiServer in response to real-world issues he experienced in rural healthcare facilities. For a few hundred dollars, this EMR system provides a robust and responsive information hub that connects the practitioner to the patient, the ward, third-party lab/PACS systems, and patient monitors to overcome many of the data and connectivity issues experienced in remote locations.
What does Rural PI do?
Features
The RuralPiServer is a combination of lightweight, cost-effective and robust hardware combined with bespoke embedded software to create an integrated EMR that can operate anywhere.
CENTRALISED LAB REPORTS:
Laboratory reports for the ward are harvested from the hospital LIS and the on-site blood gas analyser and displays result trend tables.
CENTRALISED PATIENT RECORDS:
Data sources, such as laboratory results harvested from various sources, are used to collate patient records. These records streamline the admissions process for the ward and clinic, and reduce the need to re-capture demographic information.
CLINICAL NOTES:
Text, high/low resolution photographs, audio dictation and custom HTML interfaces can be captured into a modular note system. Examples of modules are: laboratory reports, diagnoses, referrals, consults, radiology, vital signs and discharge summaries. Any existing paper-based note structure can be transformed into a note module.
PRIVACY PROTECTION:
Authenticated users of the system are assigned to “firms” in order to withhold clinical data from clinicians who have not explicitly assigned that patient to their firm.
FINE-GRAINED 3-DIMENSIONAL ACCESS CONTROL:
Access to patient data is defined according to users per firm, per note module, and per confidentiality status. Each user’s module access is also regulated for the actions: read, write, audit and lock.
REAL-TIME BED AVAILABILITY:
A live bed-state is displayed in real time on a graphical ward map.
PERSONALISED ALERTING:
Clinicians are notified via Telegram and/or email according to their own custom notification settings.
EXCEL-BASED DATA EXTRACTS:
Various Excel reports can be generated for admissions, ward microbiology, resistance patterns, etc.
REMOTE ACCESS:
The server connects to the GSM network for Internet access for clinicians from home, and for technical back-up, maintenance and upgrades.
AUDITABLE:
An audit trail of all data (audit of entry) is maintained. The audit trail is US 21 CFR Part 11 (21CFR11) compliant.
RESEARCH DATA:
The database engine permits 21CFR11-compliant clinical research.
PRIVATE PRACTICE DEBTOR'S CYCLE
A billing system with bespoke stationery with NHRPL coding, transaction reports and age analysis.
RESILIENCE:
Continuity is ensured through automated disaster recovery. All data is stored on mirrored USB thumb-drives, and rebuilds itself in the event of a single drive failure.The operating system and software is stored on a bootable SD card.