Integrated e-Diagnostic Approach (IeDA) in Burkina Faso and Mali
Improving the quality of medical consultation for children in rural clinics in Burkina Faso and Mali.
Project start date : 01/01/2014
Last updated : 15/03/2023
Beneficiary country : Burkina Faso Mali
What problem does the initiative address ?
Nearly 1 in 10 children dies before the age of five in Burkina Faso, mostly from preventable and/or treatable conditions such as malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea and malnutrition. Indeed, despite having life-saving commodities for these diseases (antibiotics, oral rehydration salts, zinc, antimalarials, etc.), the low quality of care results in many children not receiving the treatment they need. In order to improve the diagnosis and treatment of sick children, the World Health Organizat...
Detailed description of the initiative
Integrated e-Diagnostic Approach (IeDA) was developed in 2013 with the Ministry of Health of Burkina Faso to significantly improve the performance of primary healthcare workers in using national guidelines for the management of sick children. IeDA is integrated with DHIS2, the health management information system deployed in Burkina Faso by the Ministry of Health (MoH), and sends regular data to that system.
IeDA improved quality of care at the primary healthc...
What is the proposed solution added value ?
IeDA does not only improve the recording of data but also the quality of the medical consultation and the prescription, and does so in the peripheral health centers the least equipped but the most frequented of the health system. In addition to offering a digitized patient record and an a diagnosis aid, IeDA has the specificity to make possible to close the information loop by enabling district management teams to identify the profile of consultations conducted in each health center ...
6 000 000
Number of beneficiaries since launch
42 Full-Time equivalents
42 Employees
1 Volunteers
1 Service providers
6 000 000
Number of beneficiaries since launch
Target audience
- Healthcare professionals and structures (hospitals, healthcare centres/clinics, health networks)
- Young children (0-5 years)
Project objectives
- Decreased mortality
- Decreased morbidity
- Improved treatment
Materials used
- Tablet
Technologies used
- Mobile app (Android, iOS, Windows Phone, HTML5, etc.)
Offline use
Yes
Open source
Yes
Open data
No
Independent evaluation
Yes, evaluated independently
About the sponsor
Terre des hommes, Lausanne
Largest Swiss Children’s Aid Organization, Terre des hommes Lausanne improves the health and protection of some 4.2 million children and their families every year in 38 countries.
Sector : Institutions (Communities, public authorities, NGOs, foundations, etc.)
Country of origin : Afghanistan
Contact : Sponsor website Project website
Partners
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Dimagi
Industrial (Startups, enterprises, etc.)
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London School Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Academic entities (Universities, research laboratories, etc)
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Faculté de Medecine de Geneve
Academic entities (Universities, research laboratories, etc)
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Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne
Academic entities (Universities, research laboratories, etc)