Technological advancement has transformed many aspects of clinical practice all over the world. Healthcare providers are adopting the use of mobile apps in their pursuit of easing clinical operations as well as improving the management of healthcare setting workflow. mUzima for Health Providers app is equipped with great features and outstanding services to support the course. We, at mUzima, focus on optimizing current features and continuously introducing new features to make sure that user experience and user interaction improves in every new release.
On that note, we are pleased to announce the official release of mUzima for Health Providers version 2.7.0 and mUzima Core version 1.7.0, our second release of 2020! In mUzima for Health Providers 2.7.0, we’ve put an emphasis to ensure that our community can use our app with as little friction as possible. We are dedicated to meet the needs of healthcare providers who use our mobile application.
What is new?
As with our every major release, we’ve added some of the new features and made some enhancements as highlighted below;
> Support for additional languages, namely Hindi and Gujarat besides English, Swahili, French and Portuguese.
> Features for index case testing, such as enabling person demographics update and Person Observation processing.
> Support for up to Android 10
> Bug fixes and several UI enhancements for improved user experience.
Additional features in mUzima v2.7.0
Here are some of the features that make mUzima for Health Providers the most robust release:
Clinical Summary feature
The summary report feature is built to render abstract patient reports and summaries to the mUzima application. The feature utilizes the OpenMRS reporting module to design and generate HTML reports. Patient clinical summary aids healthcare providers in making clinical decisions.
Setup configuration level settings
The setup configuration level setting was introduced to provide more flexibility in the use of mUzima app features. For instance, it is possible to enable some features of the app for a given program and disable the same features for another program in an implementation that runs multiple programs on the same OpenMRS instance.
Support for picking GPS locations from within a form
Data collection process was made much easier with the introduction of GPS location picking within a form. The form can capture accurate location coordinates from the respondents. This is achieved by allowing the app to access the location on the device.
Support for defining relationships within a registration form
mUzima registration forms allow the relationship between entities to be defined. It helps to identify the persons’ close contacts and their relationship for easy contact tracing or relaying of information.
> The download of a subset of a cohort filtered by location or/and provider
> Support for opening a form from another form
> Relationship feature (Linkage of index person on the mobile app as well as viewing of relationships)
> Multi-theme feature (dark/night mode and light/day mode – available under settings)
> Geomapping feature (Ability to locate patient address on google maps and get directions to their location important especially for patient tracing)
> Manual sync widget to sync all items if automatic sync is set off
> Concept parsing using UUID’s (Ability to use concept UUIDs on forms in addition to ID’s)
Availability of v2.7.0
This new version (mUzima for Health Providers 2.7.0) is available for download on various platforms. You can download and install the application from Google Play Store
The released module (mUzima core-module 1.7.0) is available on OpenMRS Addons portal
It should be noted that the application enforces a module compatibility check i.e. v2.7.0 of the app will not allow the users to log in if the muzima-core module version installed is not the latest (v1.7.0) Please install the latest version to enjoy the new features and improvements.
Release Team
Despite the unprecedented challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, a very committed and dedicated team made it possible for this mUzima for Health Providers release. Thank you to this version release manager, Simon Savai, and to everyone else on the team for making this release successful!
We, at mUzima, are committed to making more improvements and enhancements in the future. Thank you to our community for your continuous support.
