Health Informatics

Integrated data-driven decisionmaking

Futures Group helps healthcare providers worldwide collect and use data for improved health outcomes. We provide a set of highly configurable tools with comprehensive reporting capability to clinics and hospitals in resource-poor countries. IQSolutions is a robust set of patient management and monitoring systems and data reporting tools. They enable adaptive patient management, high-quality healthcare, and clinical sustainability. Futures Group designed these tools for use in countries with under-developed infrastructure, including rural areas with intermittent electricity. They do not require Internet access. Each healthcare site has different clinical processes and reporting needs. Our IQSolutions informatics software applications can be configured to meet specific needs and they help staff effectively provide and improve patient care. These data tools are available as open source software (using a Creative Commons license). In return, our expectation is that organizations will use and enhance these products and share their software enhancements with others. IQCare is a robust, comprehensive data capture and reporting system with management tools designed to measure patient outcomes. IQCare helps clinics collect and use data on patient care and presents their status over time. It provides easy, flexible reporting, leading to enhanced data use and analysis. It is currently in use at more than 75 hospitals in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda. IQCare offers a flexible form builder, program management costing analysis, and a stock management module. It can be configured for paperless data entry, and many decision support features are built into the system. HL7, ICD10, and LOINC interoperability standards are part of the base system. Futures Group is the go-to provider for U.S. Government health informatics needs and solar netbooks. IQTools is a highly configurable reporting tool that links to any electronic system and enhances the reporting capabilities and data analysis of any hospital system. It facilitates data validation and automated reporting at the facility and central levels, and across multiple databases. IQMerge combines de-identified datasets to make data analysis and comparison more efficient. Users can look at emerging trends across all health facilities within a country or region, with simple and intuitive interfaces, error reporting, and the ability to merge information with other electronic systems.

Program Areas
population and family planning sexual and reproductive health maternal and child health hiv and aids infectious diseases gender poverty and equity

Technical Services
policy and advocacy research and strategic information ealth markets and private sector h engagement modeling and economic analysis health informatics health systems strengthening strategic consulting program management

Futures Group One Thomas Circle, NW Suite 200 Washington, DC 20005 U.S.A. tel 202.775.9680 fax 202.775.9694 Futures Group Europe, Ltd. 63-64 Margaret Street London W1W 8SW U.K. tel +44 (0) 2076.375.083 Futures Group India, Pvt., Ltd. DLF Building No. 10-B, 5th Floor DLF Cyber City, Phase-II Gurgaon - 122002 (Haryana) India tel 91.124.4702000 fax 91.124.4702042 www.futuresgroup.com

Record of Results:
IQSolutions is used in more than 630 hospital sites and facilities in 11 countries. Futures Group conducted more than 850 strategic information trainings for data managers in four different languages: English, Kiswahili, French and Kinyarwanda. IQCare is an open-source, free electronic medical record system, operational in more than 80 hospital facilities in Uganda, Nigeria and Kenya, plus 15 partner hospital sites. At the patient level, IQCare is managing over 4 million data transactions, 1.4 million follow-up visit transactions, and 741,000 lab visits transactions in Kenya. In Kenya, IQCare is managing more than 118,000 patients.

Futures Group Health Informatics Products: utilizing innovative and unique approaches that integrate health informatics, data demand and information use, and mHealth with traditional solutions.

IQChart is a multi-language patient management information system based on the World Health Organization patient registers. It collects critical information and longitudinal data from Ministry and clinic records, then automatically generates essential information for care, analysis, or donor reporting. Used in more than 120 clinics in Rwanda and Guyana, it is a simple, efficient patient monitoring and reporting tool for low-capacity sites. IQGeo links data from local partner treatment facilities to geographical information, mapping patient communities and health center locations. It maps catchment areas, planned expansion of health services, and more.

IQSMS is a mobile health data collection tool that helps communities and clinical staff gather and report information in rural areas with low resources. Data is easily entered on any brand of mobile phone using easy user prompts. Data is then sent to a central database for aggregation and analysis. The central server performs a quality check to ensure completeness and accuracy of the data and alerts the user if there is a problem. IQSMS can be configured to collect any kind of information with specific data validation checks.

Intel and Futures:

A Unique Partnership
Futures is collaborating with Intel to develop a mobile health architecture that will run on mobile phones, touch screen tablets, and netbooks. This tool will generate tremendous saving for donors and provide proven products that can be scaled up in country regardless of mobile phone or computer device.

IQSolutions Success
In Nyamasheke, Rwanda, Kibogora Hospital serves nearly 700 patients on HIV treatment. It has seen improved health outcomes since introducing IQChart. Before, we faced a big problem identifying patients who were missing appointments. Now at any moment, we can find out, said Jean Claude Nishimwe, a community outreach support officer. We found that many people were very far from the hospital. We also learned that some patients didnt understand why it is important for them to follow the treatment regimen. Based on open source technologies, Futures informatics solutions are scalable, modular, easily customizable, and uniquely engineered for the developing world with minimal infrastructure and training requirements.

Since 1971, Futures Group has developed and delivered innovative, locally relevant, evidence-based solutions to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. For more information, please contact Bobby Jefferson at bjefferson@futuresgroup.com.