The Kellermann Foundation is a nonprofit organization that has aided the displaced Batwa pygmies in Uganda through projects in healthcare, education, and community development.
This project focuses on development of a web application to be used by the maternity ward which will allow for nurses in the ward to effectively enter patient data on one system, dissolving their current pen-and-paper system of recording patient information.
- Brian To - Computer Science
- Rosie Wang - Software Engineering
- Matthew Torres - Computer Science
- Ashish Singh - Computer Science
- Iqbal Matebah - Biology
The web application will allow for efficient monotiring and care of mothers and their new babies during their stay at the ward. Overall, the staff and healthcare providers present in the hosiptal will benefit from the information on a singular and easy-to-use platform for monitoring patient health and and health history.
- Completing the current API accorrding to the template from the IT team in Uganda, improvements made by the Fall 2018 team, and similar existing systems (OpenMRS)
- Expanding the web applicaiton code to include all neccessary fields form the maternity register
- Develop database to allow for patient entries to be saved and retrieved SQL
- Display a table on the web application with existing patient entries
- Integrate SQL scripts developed for maternity ward into the existing hosiptal database
- Edge case testing for patient data fields
- Add in report-generating functionaility for patient records
- Communicating with the Bwindi IT team to determine the next ward that needs to be worked on
For inquiries, email bht170030@utdallas.edu