About the Authors

Gerald P. Douglas

gdouglas@baobabhealth.org

Affiliations Baobab Health Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Oliver J. Gadabu

Affiliation Baobab Health Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi

Sabine Joukes

Affiliation Baobab Health Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi

Soyapi Mumba

Affiliation Baobab Health Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi

Michael V. McKay

Affiliation Baobab Health Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi

Anne Ben-Smith

Affiliation Maame Akua, Area 43, Lilongwe, Malawi

Andreas Jahn

Affiliations Department for HIV and AIDS, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi, International Training and Education Center for Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Erik J. Schouten

Affiliations Department for HIV and AIDS, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi, Management Sciences for Health, Lilongwe, Malawi

Zach Landis Lewis

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joep J. van Oosterhout

Affiliation Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi

Theresa J. Allain

Affiliation Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi

Rony Zachariah

Affiliation Operational Research Unit, Medecins sans Frontieres, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Selma D. Berger

Affiliation International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France

Anthony D. Harries

Affiliations International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Frank Chimbwandira

Affiliation Department for HIV and AIDS, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: GPD OJG SJ SM MVM ABS AJ EJS ZLL JJGvO TA RZ SB ADH FC. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: GPD OJG SJ SM MVM ABS AJ EJS ZLL JJGvO TA RZ SB ADH FC. Designed the experiments/the study: GPD AJ. Analyzed the data: ABS AJ. Collected data/did experiments for the study: GPD OJG AJ. Contributed to the writing of the paper: GPD OJG SJ SM MVM ABS AJ EJS ZLL JJGvO TA RZ SB ADH FC. Founder of Baobab Health: GPD. First conceived the idea of the touchscreen point-of-care approach in 2000, and developed and deployed the first touchscreen point-of-care system in Malawi in 2001: GPD. Co-developed the prototype ART EDS software deployed at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in 2006: GPD SM ZLL. Wrote the first draft of the paper: AJ ABS ADH GPD. All authors contributed to the next drafts and to the final paper for submission, which has been seen and approved by all authors. Contributed to, and collated the final draft for submission: GPD. All authors have been involved with the design, implementation and support for scaling up the electronic data system in Malawi. Compiled Table 1 in the paper: OJG. Developed the software: MVM OJG SM. Responsible for the clinical input and assisted with implementation of the EDS at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre: TA JJGvO. Contributed to intellectual content: RZ. Responsible with others for the creation of the EDS task force in the Malawi Ministry of Health that authorised and oversaw the deployment and scale up of the EDS in the country: ADH.