Today Is the Day

Looking back on a year of serving in Kenya

Goals & Achievements

Implementing hospital management features– Registration– Finance– Pharmacy– Lab– X-ray

Goals & Achievements

Implementing hospital management features– Registration: simple implementation– Finance– Pharmacy– Lab– X-ray

Goals & Achievements

Implementing hospital management features– Registration: simple implementation– Finance: Cashier module– Pharmacy– Lab– X-ray

Goals & Achievements

Implementing hospital management features– Registration: simple implementation– Finance: Cashier module– Pharmacy: designed, development in progress• Supporting modules: Inventory and Work Order

– Lab– X-ray

Goals & Achievements

Pilot sites (faith-based and state-run)– Original mission hospital, AIC Naivasha

Medical Centre, moved ahead with different software.

– Alternative: AIC Marira clinic was a good fit• Initial deployment end of November

Goals & Achievements

Pilot sites (faith-based and state-run)– Original mission hospital, AIC Naivasha

Medical Centre, moved ahead with different software.

– Alternative: AIC Marira clinic was a good fit• Initial deployment end of November

– State-run site: Tigoni District Hospital

Goals & Achievements

Pilot sites (faith-based and state-run)– Original mission hospital, AIC Naivasha

Medical Centre, moved ahead with different software.

– Alternative: AIC Marira clinic was a good fit• Initial deployment end of November

– State-run site: Tigoni District Hospital• Participated in pharmacy module investigation• Scheduled for registration & cashier

implementation

Goals & Achievements

Building relationships– Kenyan programmers: Joseph Waweru

Goals & Achievements

Building relationships– Kenyan programmers: Joseph Waweru– CHAK: Refining and effective partnership

Goals & Achievements

Building relationships– Kenyan programmers: Joseph Waweru– CHAK: Refining and effective partnership– Other teams in Kenya:• Administrators at Kijabe Hospital• Kenyan OpenMRS Users Forum: I-TECH, AMPATH,

MVP

Moving Forward

New people at SIM– Mario Somrei: joining in August for up to two

years– Steve & Dawn Exley: visited for a week in June;

Steve is considering filling a project manager position

CHAK– Take on support of OpenHMIS sites, taking

support load off development team.

Moving Forward

Roadmap– Continue developing Phase 1 hospital

management features: 1 to 2 years– Build capacity for implementing at clinics and

hospitals and providing required support

Moving Forward

Future– We long for the future– We plan for the future– We can worry about / live in the future– We need to trust God for the future– We need to obey Him today

Today

“We walk by faith, not by sight”

“Now is the day of salvation”