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  The healthcare industry is a complex organism. Given its complex nature, this industry has taken its time to jump on to the new technology called smartcare.The SmartCare electronic health record system (EHR) has been developed and deployed by the Zambia Ministry of Health (MoH) in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and many other implementing partners. SmartCare is a fully integrated electronic health record system to provide continuity of care or clinical management information system at the facility and district (management/admin) level or A key component in ‘one National Monitoring and evaluation system’.The System is being simplified and making it more hospital friendly starting with the OPD module, supported by CDC through BroadReach HealthCare Corporation. According to Ahmad (2013), there is a critical need for health leaders to demand better data from their health information systems and to instil a culture of information use for policy...

  USAID/Zambia, in collaboration with BASICS and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), for several years has provided both technical and logistic support to the development of a new Health Management Information System (HMIS) in Zambia. Technological advancement has brought evolution in every sector, making the management process speedy and seamless, serving more people worldwide. The healthcare sector is no exception. The arena of healthcare informatics, combined with healthcare data, information technology, and business, has gained a huge boost from technology. Health Information System (HIS) is such a technological boon for the health industry, helping the management of healthcare data with utter efficiency. The implementation of this system helps in improving the quality of patient care, reducing operational cost, making administration data error-free and shaping the entire internal management process more organized.The following are the significance of hmis in the Zambian hea...

 BY: ARCHITEC CEPHAS. (BS. ARCHITECTURE. CBU). COURSE CONTENT UNIT 1: BUILDING MECHANICS 1.1. Beams 1.2. Stress, Strain and Elasticity 1.3. Forces moving about point, and beams 1.4. Shear force and Bending moments 1.5. Cantilever beams UNIT 2: BUILDING GEOMETRY AND TECHNICAL DRAWING 2.1 Introduction to technical drawing 2.2 Principles of technical drawing 2.2.1 Accuracy 2.2.2 Thoroughness  2.2.3 Neatness  2.2.4 Completeness 2.3 Identification and use of drawing equipment 2.4 Mechanical Drawing 2.4.1 Outlines 2.4.2 Title block 2.4.3 Lettering 2.4.4 Dimensioning 2.4.5 Isometric and Orthographic drawing  2.5 Plans, Elevations and Sections  2.5.1 Dwelling houses 2.5.2 Trading premises 2.5.3 Public buildings 2.6 Introduction to Auto-CAD software UNIT 3: TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING 3.1 Brief history of the development of Town and Country Planning 3.1.1 Factors that led to development of Town and Country Planning discipline 3.2 Institutional and legal frameworks for Town...

 Bipolar mood disorder which used to be called manic-depression, is a psychotic mood disorder that affects mood, thinking and behavior. It is characterized by recurrent swings between mania and depression, this is why has often referred to as manic-depressive psychosis. The dramatic shift in mood, emotions and energy level which usually moves from extreme low mood and extreme high mood don't happen moment to moment, they usually happen over several days to weeks. The mood is not stable during an episode as a result it is difficulty to treat because of continuous cyclical or mood shifting. Bipolar mood disorder is an affective (observed mood) disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, thought, energy, activity levels and ability to carry out daily activities characterized by episode of mania and depression. The changes in mood can last for hours, days, weeks or even months. The actual cause is unknown. However, there are some predisposing factors such as: family history of bipolar...

The abnormalities of food animals can be classified as either physiological or pathological. Some of the physiological conditions may be detected both ante- mortem and post –mortem. The same applies to abnormalities that are as a result of Pathological conditions; some may be detected at ante-mortem inspection thou most are appreciated at postmortem. Get Pathological conditions. Download 2.2 Pathological conditions : A pathological condition is one caused by disease, rather than occurring physiologically . As a field, pathology addresses four components of disease: cause, mechanisms of development ( pathogenesis ), structural alterations of cells (morphologic changes), and the consequences of changes (clinical manifestations). 2.2.1 Inflammation:  This is the reaction of the cellular and vascular tissue to injury. It is a property of the body for self defense, whereby it reacts sharply to any stimulus received by it. Inflammation is not a disease which enters from the outsid...

  INTRODUCTION The course is designed to prepare students with appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes to enable them identify and prevent and control various diseases. COURSE AIM: To apply knowledge and skills of communicable and non-communicable diseases in aprofessional attitude UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICABLE DISEASES UNIT 2: COMMUNICABLE DISEASES UNIT 3: NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES: UNIT 4: LEGISLATION ON COMMUNICABLE AND NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.