Biplav Shrestha

ORCID: 0000-0003-4156-4913
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Research Areas
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Electronic Health Records Systems
  • Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Medical Coding and Health Information
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Global Health Care Issues

Patan Academy of Health Sciences
2021

Mount Sinai Hospital
2017

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
2017

Contra Costa Regional Medical Center
2017

Globally, electronic medical records are central to the infrastructure of modern healthcare systems. Yet vast majority have been designed for resource-rich environments and not feasible in settings poverty. Here we describe design implementation an record at a public sector district hospital rural Nepal, its subsequent expansion additional facility.DevelopmentThe was solve following elements delivery: 1) integration systems across inpatient, surgical, outpatient, emergency, laboratory,...

10.14236/jhi.v24i2.862 article EN cc-by Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics 2017-06-23

Objectives Rheumatic fever (RF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remain among the major problems children in Nepal. Although these conditions are preventable treatable, lack of proper knowledge resources to diagnose manage rural health centres is a key concern. This study assessed impact educational sessions improve healthcare workers early recognition, diagnosis, management RF RHD far-western Design, setting participants used pretest post-test interventional design was conducted 64 two...

10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059942 article EN cc-by-nc BMJ Open 2022-04-01

Background: Diabetes ranks fourth among the noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in terms of proportional mortality Nepal and is increasingly diagnosed rural population. We aimed to evaluate care delivery diabetes patients a primary hospital that had implemented World Health Organization's Package essential NCDs interventions (PEN) protocol.Subjects Methods: This was descriptive study district hospital. The conducted over 5 months undertaken as part quality improvement project Data were extracted...

10.4103/jncd.jncd_42_18 article EN cc-by-nc-sa International Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases 2018-01-01

Abstract Background: Strategic purchasing mechanisms, including national health insurance, provide opportunities to improve quality and progress towards universal coverage. Nepal’s insurance program (HIP), begun in 2016, is a platform aiming financial risk protection, efficiency, quality, access services. HIP also further engages private-sector providers through strategic purchasing, potentially improving regulation, accountability. Bayalpata Hospital public-private partnership (PPP)...

10.21203/rs.2.20326/v1 preprint EN cc-by Research Square (Research Square) 2020-01-08

The pneumococcal conjugate vaccine has had a substantial impact on invasive disease. Previously, we compared immunity following vaccination with the 10-valent (PCV10) administered at 2 slightly different schedules: 6 and 10 weeks of age, 14 both followed by 9-month booster. In this study, up those participants to evaluate medium-term persistence serotype-specific 2-3 years age.Children from previous studies were contacted after taking informed consent their parents, blood samples...

10.1097/inf.0000000000003223 article EN The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2021-07-20
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