OpenMRS is an open source medical records system or EMR with a global community.
In late August 2010, the OpenMRS community and the REACH Informatics team led a training week in Eldoret, Kenya at the facilities of the USAID-AMPATH Partnership, one of the developing world’s largest and most successful health care programs to fight HIV/AIDS. The week-long training event attracted 15 participants from Malawi, Tanzania, Ghana, Kenya, and Sudan
John Kieti is a Database Specialist at Kenya’s National AIDS Control Council as well as a technology blogger at www.gmeltdown.com. Last week, I had this great opportunity to be a participant at the fifth annual OpenMRS implementers meeting in Cape Town. The meeting brought together implementers, developers, and the leadership of OpenMRS. The meeting was
OpenMRS is planning a Meet-and-Greet at AMIA 2009 in San Francisco on Tuesday, 17-November, at 7:30 pm. We will meet for drinks at the Urban Tavern next to the Hilton.
We’re very excited to announce the 1st Annual Latin American Open Source Health Informatics Meeting (IMeCA 2009) in Lima, Peru the 26-31 of October 2009. The principal objectives of the 1st IMeCA 2009 are: Show the benefits of open source electronic medical record software and community development to empower local organizations Understand the issues and
Joaquin Blaya writes: We just finished a 3 day (July 8-10, 2009) workshop on OpenMRS in Guatemala for Ministry of Health and CDC personnel from different Central American countries… Read the post
On May 26th we had an OpenMRS developers and implementers meeting in Boston at Harvard Medical School. The goal was to introduce people in the US east coast to OpenMRS, and to give developers, users and potential users a chance to meet and learn about the system. We also provided phone and Skype connections for
On June 24-25, 2009, Hospital Albert Schweitzer, in Deschapelles Haiti, is planning to host a mini OpenMRS Implementers Conference. They are doing this specifically for Visitation Hospital in Petite Riviere de Nippes, to help them get setup to run OpenMRS. They wanted to invite anyone else (primarily those in Haiti) who are interested to participate,
We’re now entering the third week of the E-Health: Software Development and Implementation course (or EHSDI) in Rwanda. (Which means this blog post is about two weeks too late, but who’s counting?) The government of Rwanda has chosen to use OpenMRS as a national medical record system, used at all health facilities, as part of
OpenMRS Implementers Meeting – 17-20 June 2008 – Elangeni Hotel, Durban, South Africa. On behalf of the OpenMRS community and our funders, the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Rockefeller Foundation, the World Health Organization, the Fogarty International Centre, National Institutes of Health, USA, and the South African Medical Research Council we invite you
Several OpenMRS developers will be attending the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara from April 14-17, 2008. Ben and Justin will be manning an OpenMRS booth at the DotOrg Pavilion of the exhibition hall. For more information on the MySQL conference please check out the conference website (http://mysqlconf.com/). We’re excited to be sharing the
