Blueberry FlashBack screen recorder is to be used to create audio-visual demonstrations of an open source medical record system which will be used for clinical sites throughout the developing world.
[UKPRwire, Tue Jun 05 2007] Blueberry FlashBack screen recorder is to be used to create audio-visual demonstrations of an open source medical record system which will be used for clinical sites throughout the developing world.
OpenMRS, a non-profit open source medical record system developed for use in Africa and other third-world countries, will utilise Flash-based user-documentation, created using Blueberry FlashBack screen recorder.
Paediatrician, Paul Biondich, who initially contacted Blueberry regarding the use of BB FlashBack, said: "OpenMRS is a freely available medical record system, developed with the express intent of facilitating the care of HIV, Tuberculosis, and Malaria within developing countries. OpenMRS is based on the principle that information should be easy to store, summarise and analyse. At its core is a concept dictionary which stores all diagnosis, tests, procedures, drugs and other general questions and potential answers.
"When we contacted Blueberry, we were looking to provide easy-to-assimilate documentation for the system and found BB FlashBack screen recorder to be ideal for creating simple demonstrations of the system."
OpenMRS is a common framework on which medical information systems can easily be built. The application is not dependent on the types of medical information being collected, or on particular data collection forms, and so can be customised for different uses.
Because OpenMRS is a charitable project, Blueberry donated free site licences of the screen recorder to the venture, allowing the developers to create the documentation.
Dr Biondich said: "There are over 40 million people infected with or dying from HIV/AIDS in the world - most of them in developing countries. Prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS on this scale requires efficient information management, which is critical as HIV/AIDS care must increasingly be entrusted to less skilled providers.
"Whether for lack of time, developers, or money, most HIV/AIDS programs in developing countries manage their information with simple spreadsheets or small, poorly designed databases, if anything at all. To help them, we need to find a way not only to improve management tools, but also to reduce unnecessary, duplicative efforts. We believe OpenMRS is the right direction to go to help achieve these aims."
