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The Eb@le-Santé EuropAid project (2009-2012) is a partnership between Belgian and Congolese (RDC) institutions. The main aim is to improve health care in RDC via electronic records [4] [5] [7] and educative medical teleconferencing [1]. Therefore we equip four academic hospitals with a server providing medical software, linked workstations in a local area network at the hospital and interconnections to the academic network Eb@le that interconnects seven universities in the country. The project also aims at educating local teams towards both technical and medical autonomy. Currently, the main equipment in the four locations (the university teaching hospitals of Kinshasa, Lubumbashi, Bukavu and Kisangani) is installed and the local teams have started recording medical patient records. The project’s methodology aims at solid registration of complete patient records, resulting in high quality data, improving the care of the patient and, enabling swift reporting [10][11] and data-mining for research on anonymous epidemiological data. Moreover, correct and adequate administrative data become available to the hospital management and teleconsulting/tele-education components complete the package.
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Nyssen, M., Verbeke, F., Remon, M., Hallet, Y. (2013). Eb@le-Santé: Networked Electronic Health Records in Academic Hospitals in RDC. In: Jonas, K., Rai, I.A., Tchuente, M. (eds) e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries. AFRICOMM 2012. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 119. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41178-6_28
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