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🚑 Field Guides

Field Useage

Using the Hikma Health EHR system in the field and on location

Potential Use-cases

The Hikma Health EHR system has been used in many different kinds of contexts, and across a whole spectrum of available resources.

Some of the common use-cases are:

  1. Health Vans
  2. Tent-like Clinics
  3. One person dispensaries
  4. Telemedicine providers
  5. Multi-clinician rural health centers
  6. Multi-departement hospital systems
  7. Brief Country wide health missions across all the above contexts
  8. And more …

Know your context

Where you plan to use the Hikma Health EHR will determine the constraints you are going to be faced with.

Before usage of Hikma Health in your location, you should first consider:

  • Who are your users?
    • How many users do you expect to have?
    • Do all your users have the same permissions across the system?
    • Do you expect your users to share access to devices? Or will each user have their own tablet/mobile phone?
  • Do you have any specific security & privacy concerns?
    • Are these concerns within your organizational structure?
    • Are these concerns fear of external actors?
  • What is your electricity supply like?
    • Is it stable?
    • Do you have load shedding?
  • What does your internet availability look like?
    • Are you using mobile network providers (Telco)?
    • Do you have 2g/3g/4g/5g availability?
    • Is your internet stable, intermittent, or unavailable?
  • What does your regulatory climate look like?
    • Do you have reporting requirements?
    • Are there data sovereignity requirements you must comply with?