Case Study: Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) achieves real-time, scalable clinical reporting and interactive dashboards with Elastic

Providing healthcare in rural Kenya using the Elastic Stack

AMPATH is a partnership formed in 2001 between the Kenyan Ministry of Health, Moi University, and U.S. universities to combat HIV in western Kenya. Faced with paper charts and multiple registers that made patient records hard to access and reporting slow and error-prone—despite a data scale of about 8 million visits and 250 million clinical questions—AMPATH needed a way to turn fragmented clinical data into timely, reliable information for clinicians and health officials.

AMPATH implemented OpenMRS and a tablet-based AMRS for clinical data capture, then built an ETL pipeline (MySQL → Logstash → Elasticsearch) and Kibana dashboards to visualize flattened, fast-queryable datasets. The Elastic Stack enabled on-the-fly, embeddable dashboards, reduced weeks-long development cycles, freed developer time, and delivered real-time reporting and monitoring used by clinicians, clinic managers, and the Ministry of Health—improving decision-making and expanding into system monitoring and machine-learning anomaly detection.

Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH)

Jonathan Dick

Chief Medical Information Officer