ePAR Dev Notes
Dr. Moses Ndiritu (MBChB, Mphil, CRD) is a clinical epidemiologist
with 10 years of clinical practice, 5 years in clinico-epidemiological
research and over 3 years of web-based programming. Dr. Ndiritu's
interest in programming began way back in 1988 at Starehe Boys Centre
where he learnt several programming languages and systems analysis. He
grew up in the times when IT was viewed as a "lesser course". Dr.
Ndiritu had to choose to join medical school over continuing with a
diploma level IT training at his former secondary school as taking one
meant forfeiting the other. His intense interest in computing was
rekindled during his studies in Epidemiology and Advanced computing at
the University of Cambridge in 2001/2002. He quickly grasped the science
of epidemiological study design, data analysis and perfected his
statistical programming skills in a number of statistical programs. In
2004, he began self-taught studies of python, C++ and PHP but took a
break until 2006 when he undertook another self-taught crash course in
web programming with PHP. He immediately developed a paediatric clinical
information system for use by clinicians at the point of care to aid in
the collection of routine health information for his epidemiological
work. He soon realised that ICT could be deployed to not only assist in
research but to improve clinical service. From that point, his interest
in designing and improving eHealth solutions has steadily increased
leading to the birth of the ePAR in 2009 when he installed it at Thika
Level 5 Hospital for a clinical and microbiological surveillance. Dr.
Ndiritu is studying a PhD with Open University UK and considers the
development of the ePAR as a major outcome of his PhD in epidemiology.
His immediate goal is to finish the PhD, continue to develop ePAR and
build outpatient and MHealth modules for the ePAR.

