Public Health: Notifiable disease reporting, community health workers and campaigns

Comprehensive HIV care and Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) management.

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Public Health in the Bridge HMS Suite: Notifiable disease reporting, community health workers and campaigns

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45 items in 8 areas, every one shipping with the app today.

CCC Enrollment & Records
- Comprehensive Care Clinic enrollmentRegister PLHIV into the CCC with a dedicated HIV care enrollment record threaded with chatter and activities.
- Auto-generated CCC numbersEach enrollment gets a facility-YYYY-sequence CCC identifier auto-built from a no-gap sequence, unique per company.
- One-enrollment-per-patient guardSQL constraint prevents a patient having more than one active HIV enrollment per company.
- Entry point captureRecords how the client entered care across 10 paths including VCT, PMTCT, TB clinic, MCH, STI, antenatal and key-population outreach.
- Patient type classificationFlags newly diagnosed, transfer-in, restart-after-default or vertical-transmission clients.
- HIV diagnosis detailsCaptures diagnosis date, confirming test type (rapid/ELISA/DNA-PCR/VL) and confirming test date.
Population, Disclosure & PMTCT
- Key population taggingClassifies clients into 9 key-population categories (MSM, FSW, PWID, prisoner, transgender, military, fisherfolk, refugee, general).
- Pregnancy & breastfeeding flagsRecords pregnant and breastfeeding status at enrollment for PMTCT tracking.
- Partner disclosure & statusCaptures whether partner was disclosed and the partner's HIV status.
- Index testing trackingRecords index-testing offer and number of index clients reached.
- OVC eligibility flagMarks orphans and vulnerable children eligible for OVC support programs.
ART Regimen Management
- ART regimen master catalogMaintain a configurable library of ART regimens with composition, therapy line and patient-type banding.
- Pre-seeded national regimens (Kenya 2024)Ships 8 ready-to-use regimens: adult TLD 1L, pediatric ABC/3TC/DTG and ABC/3TC/LPVr, 2L AZT/3TC/DTG and LPVr, 3L DRV/r+DTG, PrEP and PEP.
- Therapy line classificationCategorizes each regimen as 1L, 2L, 3L, PrEP or PEP.
- Weight-band pediatric regimensSupports adult and pediatric bands from under-3kg through 30kg-plus for correct dosing.
- Clinical dosing metadataEach regimen carries pill count, food requirement, side effects, contraindications and required monitoring.
- Drug product linkageLinks regimens to drug products for pharmacy and inventory integration.
Viral Load & CD4 Monitoring
- Viral load result registerRecords VL results with sample and result-received dates, copies/ml value and testing lab.
- Automatic VL status bandingAuto-classifies each result as LDL/undetectable, suppressed<200, low-level viraemia 50-999 or virological failure>=1000.
- Automatic suppression flagDerives suppressed and undetectable booleans directly from the VL value.
- Automatic EAC triggerFlags EAC-required whenever a VL is unsuppressed, linking triggered counselling sessions.
- Reason-for-test captureRecords why VL was drawn: routine 6/12-month, suspected failure, post-EAC, pregnancy or post-swap.
- Test method & lab referenceDocuments assay platform (Abbott, GeneXpert, Roche cobas, Alinity) and lab reference number.
Adherence & Counselling
- Enhanced Adherence Counselling workflow
- EAC status trackingTracks each session as planned, completed, missed or deferred.
- Adherence barrier catalogShips 15 pre-seeded, categorized adherence barriers (forgetfulness, side effects, stigma, food insecurity, etc.).
- Barrier tagging per sessionTag multiple identified barriers on each EAC session via many2many tags.
- Adherence assessment fieldsRecords pill-count adherence and pharmacy-refill adherence assessments per session.
- Post-EAC VL linkage & outcomeLinks the follow-up VL and records outcome after 3 sessions (suppressed, switched to 2L/3L, or ongoing EAC).
Clinical Registers
- Opportunistic infection registerRecords OIs across 16 types (TB variants, candidiasis, PCP, cryptococcal meningitis, Kaposi, etc.) with diagnosis date.
- OI severity & outcome trackingCaptures severity and treatment outcome (cured, improved, failed, died, lost) with completion dates.
- Differentiated Service Delivery modelsEnrols stable clients into 8 DSD models including fast-track, community ART groups, adherence clubs and MMD.
- Multi-month dispensingConfigures 1/3/6-month drug supply with refill interval and next pharmacy pickup dates.
- DSD eligibility flagFlags eligibility based on >12 months stable, suppressed VL, no active OI and age criteria.
- Patient outcome eventsRecords outcome events (transfer-out, defaulter, LTFU, death) with date and cause of death.
Appointments & Defaulter Tracing
- HIV appointment schedulingSchedules clinical visits, pharmacy refills, VL collections, EAC and group/club sessions per enrollment.
- Overdue/missed auto-flaggingAutomatically marks appointments missed when the scheduled date passes while still scheduled.
- Appointment status actionsOne-click buttons mark appointments completed or missed.
- Defaulter tracing outcomesRecords tracing attempts and outcomes (returned, refused, LTFU, transferred, died).
- Next-appointment roll-upEnrollment computes the next upcoming non-canceled appointment date.
- Appointment calendar & filtersCalendar view color-coded by type plus filters for scheduled, missed and refill/VL appointments.
Automation & Crons
- Weekly VL-due scanScheduled job scans active patients and auto-creates VL-collection appointments using 6/12-month windows by time on ART.
- Daily defaulter & LTFU scanDaily job auto-flags defaulters at 28+ days and LTFU at 90+ days of missed refills, writing outcome events.
- Daily appointment remindersDaily job posts chatter reminders for next-day appointments with a pluggable SMS-gateway hook.
- Monthly HIV care report auto-generation (MoH 731)Monthly job auto-creates and computes the prior month's HIV care report, in Kenya's MoH 731 format, for every facility with HIV care.

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