Global Laboratory Initiative software (GLI)
June, 2018 → February, 2022
Alberto Abelló, Besim Bilalli, Sergi NadalDescription
The Global Laboratory Initiative (GLI) is a program developed by the Probitas Foundation in 2010 with the objective to strengthen the capabilities of clinical diagnostic laboratories working with a multidisciplinary team in vulnerable areas. It consists in four phases:
- Phase 1: Needs assessment
- Phase 2: Strengthening basic infrastructures and providing laboratory equipment
- Phase 3: Training local staff in laboratory management and diagnostic techniques
- Phase 4: Promoting other health programs appropriate for each context
- Phase 5: Measuring the effectiveness, efficiency and impact.
Thus, a software tool was created and developed by a multidisciplinary Probitas team for the management of those laboratories, with the objective of maintaining a database collecting and managing patient data, samples and results, which allows drafting epidemiological and logistical management reports. GLI Software is organised into four modules:
- Patient Registration
- Tests request and results recording
- Report production, validation and interpretation
- Overview of stock and database management
Despite being currently working at full capacity in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Mali (for a total of 8 laboratories), GLI-software is currently in the process of improving its capacity and performance. Hence, this is the framework of this project aiming at the improvement of GLI-Software migrating it from a desktop application to a client-server architecture that allows its scalability and further improvement.
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