User manual

From PANACeA THIRRA

User Manual

Introduction

The full name of the project is Portable System for Telehealth and Health Informatics in Rural & Remote Areas.

THIRRA is an Open Source project under the PAN Asian Collaboration for Evidence-based eHealth Adoption and Application (PANACeA), funded by the IDRC. The source codes are hosted by Sourceforge.

THIRRA is a web based application primarily for use over the narrowband Internet. As such, the user only needs to have internet connectivity and a web browser that supports XHTML, such as Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome, etc.

THIRRA utilises the database models from PCDOM PrimaCare Electronic Medical Records and Clinic Management System developed by the Primary Care Doctors Organisation Malaysia, licensed under the PCDOM Public License.

The license for the software is the Mozilla Public License v1.1.

Modes

The THIRRA research project will be testing the intervention slightly differently in the 3 partner countries.

Biosurveillance - Sri Lanka

Electronic Health Records System (EHR) - Malaysia and Nepal

Offline EHR - Malaysia

Although there are 3 different modes to use THIRRA, at its core is the patient records. They use the same database model, albeit for different purposes.