Glossary

Common terms you'll run into on the project.

Please add new terms as you come across them. If you don't know what something means, please ask — there's no embarrassment in not knowing a term.

Roles

Admin: Anyone with access to the back-end dashboard, roles and permissions are listed below.

• Owner: Simple tech team members. Has all permissions listed below:

  • View Dashboard for all Organizations

  • View and Download the Overdue list (facility-wise)

  • View and update Adherence follow-ups

  • Manage Organizations, Facility groups and Facilities

  • Manage Admins

  • Manage Protocols

  • Manage Users and approve / deny their access to the Simple mobile app

  • Search Audit Logs

• Organization Owner: Administrators for one or more Organizations, e.g. PATH admins. Has the same permissions as Owner, but limited to the organizations they control. They also can't add organizations.

• Supervisor: Program supervisors, primarily CVHO and STS. Permissions limited to:

  • View Dashboard for Facilities that they have access to

  • View and Download the Overdue list (facility-wise)

  • View Facilities they have access to

  • Manage Users and approve / deny their access to the Simple mobile app

• Analyst: People who just need dashboard data, e.g. an epidemiologist or health expert Permissions are read-only, limited to:

  • View Dashboard for Facilities they have access to (District page only, not User page

  • No overdue list or management access

• Counselor: Call center employee or counselor who will follow up with the patient. Permissions limited to:

  • View and Update the Overdue list

  • View and Update Adherence follow-ups

  • No dashboard or management access

Terms

• Blood Pressure (BP): Combination of systolic and diastolic BP readings in mm Hg

  Recorded as Systolic/Diastolic Ex. 120/80

• BP medicines: Name(s) and dosage(s) of medication currently prescribed to a patient

• BP passport: Physical ID provided to the patient

• BP passport code: UUID printed on BP passport as a QR code, which can be scanned to find the patient.

• BP passport short code: A 7-digit number that summarizes the UUID, which can be entered if the scanner does not work.

• Business ID: IDs other than BP passport that may be associated with a patient (such as Driving License, State Health ID etc.)

• Call list: Used interchangeably with overdue list

• Clinic: Used interchangeably with Facility

• DM: Diabetes mellitus (the clinical term for diabetes)

• Facility:

  • Sub-centre

  • PHC (Primary Health Centre)

  • CHC (Community Health Centre)

  • District Hospital (or)

  • Any Public or Private Healthcare Facility

  • All Facilities are identified by a Facility ID

  • Users can be linked to one or more Facilities

• Facility group: Group of one or more facilities

  • Users within a facility group sync patient data amongst themselves

  • Users outside a facility group do not sync data amongst themselves

• Follow up list: List of all patients who have missed their appointment (including ones without a phone number). Displayed on the web dashboard.

• HTN: Hypertension

• ICMR: Indian Council of Medical Research

• IHMI/IHCI: Indian Hypertension Management Initiative, now called India Hypertension Control Initiative

• Overdue list: List of patients who have a phone number and who have missed their appointment. Displayed on the nurses' phone.

• Organization: One or more facility groups that are part of a single administrative unit

• Protocol: Name(s) and dosage(s) of medication recommended to be prescribed to a patient based on their current BP and BP history.

• Patient log: List of all patients with a BP recorded in that facility. Displayed on the nurses' phones.

• Result of a phone call made with the user's number masked:

  • Completed: Connected to the patient

  • Canceled: User cut the call before it was connected

  • Busy: Patient’s number is giving a busy tone

  • No answer: Patient did not answer

  • Failed: Call failed (likely due to bad phone number or operator-level disconnections)

  • Unknown: Result of the call is unknown

• Security PIN: 4 digit PIN used by the Nurse to login to the app

• User: User of Simple app (i.e. a healthcare work not a patient)