Vista mHealth™ - HIV/AIDS - Africa

HIV/AIDS - Africa

Vista mHealth™ is the core of the Vista LifeSciences clinical system for HIV/AIDS implemented in Lesotho, Africa in 2010.

HIV/AIDS is a chronic condition and requires regular medication and medical management. It is essential that HIV positive individuals have access to necessary care.

Lesotho needed a system that could be used in a clinic or mobile environment.  It needed to operate in an “occasionally connected” environment rugged conditions.  These parameters were factored into the network design and solutions that now operate in the clinic and mobile outreach vehicles in Lesotho.

The Vista mHealth HIV/AIDS system allows medical workers to manage patient in clinic and remote environments and was tailored through detailed interviews with users, including nurses, pharmacists, HIV/AIDS counselors, and rehabilitation specialists. The system is designed to be “occasionally connected,” enabling medical providers to travel to patient locations with mobile technologies and access electronic records for patient assessments and interventions.

More than 20,000 patient encounters are active on the system today.

This project was funded by Vista Partners/Vista LifeSciences, PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) and DoD DHAP (Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program). 

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Naval Health Research Center, which helped sponsor this project.