Data BRIDGE: Building Reliable Information from Data Generated in Everyday clinical practice for newborn care in sub-Saharan Africa

Fri 12 July

Strangeways Research Laboratory

In this talk, Timothy Tuti will discuss his ongoing research that is designing and implementing a paper-to-digital information pipeline to support clinical surveillance and service improvement at scale in sub-Saharan Africa using a learning health systems approach.

His focus is on neonatal hospital care because the majority of deaths occur in this group. There is poor availability of routine clinical data and use in decision-making. The impact of global heating, antimicrobial resistance, and environmental pollution on neonatal conditions and outcomes is largely unknown.

Paper-based clinical records can play a valuable role in clinical surveillance and service improvement, especially in rural and public healthcare facilities. In these settings the introduction of electronic record keeping would disrupt workflows, introduce additional costs, and overburden the already overstretched workforce.

Cost: Free