OPD
Outpatient department
The busiest part of any Ethiopian hospital, run as one connected flow from the front desk to the consulting room.
What the module does
- Check-in and visit creation against the patient record
- Triage with vital signs and chief complaint
- Consultation notes, diagnosis and treatment plan
- Coded ICD-10 primary and secondary diagnoses
- Lab, imaging and medication orders raised from the consultation
- Discharge or admission decided from the same screen
Filled dot: available today. Hollow dot: on the roadmap.
Questions
How does a patient book a visit?
Through your hospital's own website, which links to patient.carelink.et. Walk-in patients are registered at the front desk.
Further reading
- EMR versus paper in an Ethiopian outpatient departmentWhat actually changes when an Ethiopian outpatient department moves from paper cards to an electronic medical record — and what does not.
- CBHI claims: how digital claims cut rejectionsWhy CBHI claims get rejected or delayed in Ethiopian hospitals and health centers, and how building claims from the visit record reduces rejections.
- HMIS and DHIS2 reporting from an EMR: what to expectHow an EMR can produce the monthly HMIS report Ethiopian facilities submit to DHIS2, what has to be mapped by hand, and where the pitfalls are.
Bring CareLink to your hospital.
Tell us about your hospital or health center and we will arrange a discovery visit and a quotation.
Prefer to see it working first? We will walk you through a fully configured demo hospital — registration to discharge — on a call or at your premises.