On 8th October, the Cardiovascular Journal of Africa published an article by Joris van Dam, John Musuku, Liesl J Zühlke and others titled ‘An open-access, mobile compatible, electronic patient register for rheumatic heart disease (‘eRegister’) based on the World Heart Federation’s framework for patient registers’.

The authors write that while patient registers are recognized as essential instruments in RHD control and elimination programmes, they mainly consist of paper-based data collection, therefore they sought to ‘assess the feasibility and potential benefits of producing an electronic RHD patient register’.

The authors conclude that eRegister is user-friendly and a ‘low-cost, mobile compatible platform for RHD treatment and prevention programmes’, which ‘reduces the risk of data error, synchronises in real-time, improves clinical operations and supports management of field team operations’.

You can read the article in full on the website of the Cardiovascular Journal of Africa here.