{"url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-11-10/cure-international-electronic-medical-records-rollout","markdown_url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-11-10/cure-international-electronic-medical-records-rollout.md","title":"CURE International Moves 8 Hospitals to Digital Records","headline":"CURE International Completes Electronic Medical Records Rollout at Eight Children's Hospitals With Thoughtworks","description":"CURE International moved all eight of its pediatric hospitals from paper to the Bahmni electronic medical records system.","section":"Partnerships","published_at":"2026-11-10T06:10:58+00:00","modified_at":"2026-11-10T06:10:58+00:00","author":"News Desk","key_takeaways":["CURE International's eight children's hospitals, seven in Africa and one in the Philippines, now run on the open-source Bahmni electronic medical records system.","Thoughtworks customized and deployed Bahmni across the network, adding allergy and blood crossmatching alerts, electronic drug charts and real-time surgical readiness tracking.","CURE extended its managed services support with Thoughtworks for a further year, covering platform upgrades, stability and operations across all eight hospitals."],"companies":[{"name":"CURE International","is_primary":true,"profile_url":"https://akta.pro/company-profiles/000t3fx/cure-international","website":"http://cure.org"},{"name":"Thoughtworks","is_primary":false,"profile_url":"https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0000dcx/thoughtworks","website":"http://www.thoughtworks.com"}],"source":{"publisher":"PR Newswire","title":"CURE International completes electronic medical records rollout across its eight children's hospitals with Thoughtworks","url":"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cure-international-completes-electronic-medical-records-rollout-across-its-eight-childrens-hospitals-with-thoughtworks-302933263.html"},"other_sources":[],"tags":["Partnerships","CURE International","Thoughtworks"],"body_markdown":"CURE International has moved clinical records at all eight of its pediatric hospitals from paper to the Bahmni electronic medical records system, working with Thoughtworks, the technology consultancy said in a [PR Newswire](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cure-international-completes-electronic-medical-records-rollout-across-its-eight-childrens-hospitals-with-thoughtworks-302933263.html) announcement on November 10, 2026. The hospitals, seven across Africa and one in the Philippines, provide surgical care at no cost to children with treatable disabilities.\n\n## How the Bahmni Rollout Reached Eight Hospitals\n\n[CURE International](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/000t3fx/cure-international) previously ran much of its clinical work on paper, with notes written by hand, carried between departments and re-entered later. Each hospital has its own specialties, infrastructure and staffing. [Thoughtworks](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0000dcx/thoughtworks) customized and deployed Bahmni, an open-source hospital management system it incubated for low-resource settings, across the network. The rollout builds on a partnership that began in 2023, when CURE first engaged Thoughtworks to digitize care in its children's hospitals.\n\nThe work covered four priority areas. For safer clinical care, the partners added high-visibility alerts for allergies and the need for blood crossmatching, supervisor approval for changes to medication records, dosing guidance linked to each child's weight and a new variable dose protocol. On the wards, they introduced electronic drug charts, automated nursing tasks and ward-level inpatient dashboards, and a routine medication round now takes three clicks instead of seven. Operating theaters gained real-time tracking of each patient's surgical readiness and a suggestion for a replacement patient when a scheduled surgery cannot go ahead. The platform upgrade helped deployments reach each site 60% faster and caused 45% less disruption to patient services.\n\n\"Taking eight hospitals from paper to digital without interrupting care is a monumental challenge,\" said Kevin de Smidt, Chief Technology Officer at CURE International. \"The Thoughtworks team learned how our clinicians actually work, allowing us to roll out a system that lets our teams spend less time chasing paperwork and more time focused on providing world-class surgical care to the children we serve.\"\n\nSteve Obana, Senior Vice President for Life Sciences and MedTech at Thoughtworks, said healthcare platforms in these environments cannot afford downtime or instability. Thoughtworks' Managed Services team continues to run deployments and day-to-day operations across the network.\n\n## CURE International's Hospital Network at a Glance\n\nAccording to akta.pro [company records](https://akta.pro/company-data), CURE International operates eight pediatric hospitals in Africa and the Philippines serving patients from 23 to 24 additional countries. The same records list more than 370,000 surgical procedures performed to date and more than 5.6 million patient visits. CURE partners with COSECSA to host surgical residencies and fellowships and with PAACS to train local surgeons through a residency program.\n\n## Features Returning to the Open-Source Project\n\nFeatures built for CURE, including inpatient care and monitoring and a digital medication administration record, are being contributed back to the core Bahmni project, making them available to other hospitals deploying the platform in low-resource settings. CURE has extended its managed services support with Thoughtworks for a further year, covering platform upgrades, stability and operations across all eight hospitals.\n","publisher":{"name":"News for Agent","url":"https://newsforagent.com"}}