An end-to-end, data driven approach to improving healthcare delivery in our world's poorest communities

The people of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, fled to seek refuge after the earthquake in 2010. Temporary earthquake resettlement camps evolved over the years into permanent communities in the periphery outside the city-center. Our founder, a board certified internal medicine and cardiology physician, became involved with healthcare delivery in Haiti through a medical trip to a community called Jerusalem. While providing medical care out of an open-air community health clinic, the frustration of fragmented care, lost paper medical records, and lack of ability to monitor longitudinal patient health trends sparked the creation of Global Health Coalition (GHC), a 501c3 nonprofit. At the onset, GHC adopted a core value of global health sustainability and thus OpenMRS, an open-source electronic health record (EHR), was leveraged so our efforts could foster the growth of other NGO’s solving a similar challenge in global health. Through extensive needs assessments and customization of the EHR to fit the community of Jerusalem, the health clinic, and the medical providers, GHC successfully deployed the EHR in January 2017. From there, GHC turned their focus towards building a framework for realizing improve health outcomes through healthcare data visualization. Customized data dashboards allow our partners to follow health trends, evaluate effectiveness of health interventions, and easily access health data. GHC and our partners have seen first-hand the impact an EHR and data analytics platform has in enabling more effective and efficient healthcare delivery, even in remote communities with scarce electricity and internet.