Table 1. Description of Integrated Clinic Enterprise Application modules for clinical patient management.
Module | Function |
Patient clinic registration | To register patients in the clinic and collect information of past medical history |
Patients inactivation | To inactivates patients transferred out, lost to follow up, or deceased |
Visit registration and triage | To register patient visit and record vital signs and presenting symptoms |
Monitoring | To enter and access the information collected during the follow up visits including: Karnosky and WHO staging, new clinical events and opportunistic infections, last menstrual period, contraceptives methods, prophylaxis, ART regimen, reasons for switching and stopping ART, ART toxicities, ART adherence |
Appointment scheduling | To schedule appointments and prevent overbooking |
Lab | To order laboratory tests |
Counseling | To collect socio-economic, marital, religious and sexual behavior data in a rule based approach |
Prescription | To prescribe and dispense drugs |
WHO: World Health Organization; ART: antiretroviral treatment.