OpenELIS Global

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The OpenELIS Global software is an enterprise-level laboratory information system built on open-source web-based technologies that has been tailored for low-and-middle income country public health laboratories.

Approach

The software serves as both an effective laboratory software solution and business process framework. It supports the effective functioning of public health laboratories for best laboratory practice and accreditation.

OpenELIS offers functionality suitable for supporting jobs and workflows of laboratory technicians, laboratory managers, and public health epidemiologists. Laboratory technicians can use the system to capture data on laboratory orders, tests, and results. Laboratory managers can use the system to track laboratory quality assurance processes. Public health epidemiologists can use OpenELIS data in a central data repository for disease surveillance. The system is suitable for use in any clinical lab, but it is specifically designed for public health labs in limited resource settings.

Implementations

OpenELIS is implemented nationally in Cote d’Ivoire, Mauritius, and Haiti. It has implementations in at least 192 labs, with many more using the 1.x version bundled in Bahmni Hospital Operating System.

Resources

• Website: https://openelis-global.org/
• Source Code: https://github.com/I-TECH-UW/OpenELIS-Global-2
• Articles:
  • He Y, Kouabenan Y-R, Assoa PH, Komena P, Iiams-Hauser C, Pongathie A, Kouakou A, Adje C, Kohemun N, Koffi JB, Wagenaar BH, Gloyd S, Flowers J, Abiola N, Puttkammer N, Perrone L. Electronic laboratory information system and HIV data quality: time-series analyses at eight public health laboratories in Cote d’Ivoire. e-Poster presentation at the 24th International AIDS Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 2022.
  • Flowers, J., Sutton P., Bouncy, J. et al. (2010). OpenELIS: Open-source laboratory information system for clinical and reference laboratories: Implementations in Haiti and Cote d'Ivoire. Poster presentation at Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), Washington DC, August 2010.
  • He, Yao and Iiams-Hauser, Casey and Assoa, Paul Henri and Kouabenan, Yves-Rolland and Komena, Pascal and Pongathie, Adama and Kouakou, Alain and Kirk, Mary and Antilla, Jennifer and Rogosin, Carli and Ngatchou, Patricia Sadate and Kohemun, Natacha and Flowers, Jan and Abiola, Nadine and Adjé-Touré, Christiane and Puttkammer, Nancy and Perrone, Lucy A., Development and National Scale Implementation of an Open-Source Electronic Laboratory Information System (Openelis) in Cote D'Ivoire: Sustainability Lessons from the First 13 Years. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4166356 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4166356
  • Kirk, M., Assoa, P., Iiams-Hauser, C., Kouabenan, Y., Antilla, J., Steele-Lane, C., Rossum, G., Komena, P., Sadate Ngatchou, P., Abiola, N., Kouakou, A., Pongathie, A., Koffi, J., Adje, C., & Perrone, L. (2021). Adaptation of an electronic dashboard to monitor HIV viral load testing in Cote d’Ivoire. African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 10(1), 6 pages. doi:https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v10i1.1284