OpenMRS is an open source medical records system or EMR with a global community.
EMR4All didn’t begin with funding or infrastructure. It began with the question: “Can we run OpenMRS on a Raspberry Pi?” Figure 1: The first question on Talk by Grace Potman about OpenMRS 3 (O3) on Raspberry Pi, which emphasised the vision of EMR4All in 2023 to become a reality. It was a technical curiosity that
UgandaEMR, an electronic medical record (EMR) system first released by the Ministry of Health (MoH) in July 2016, has become a widely used digital health solution across various healthcare facilities in Uganda. EMR systems like UgandaEMR have significantly improved patient management, clinical documentation and reporting throughout the country. In this article, you’ll learn how UgandaEMR
KenyaEMR, the OpenMRS distribution in Kenya, has contributed significantly to providing accessible healthcare services by automating workflows and improving patient care and management. By providing a digitized and reliable platform, KenyaEMR reduces the dependency on paper-based systems, enabling healthcare facilities to automate tasks, such as outpatient and inpatient management, appointment scheduling, and easy access to
For years, OpenMRS implementers have faced a tough reality: scaling digital health systems, especially across large programs or national rollouts, was tedious, fragile, and often too dependent on manual work. Spinning up dozens of instances meant managing everything by hand, from deployment to upgrades and monitoring. And without native support for clustering or high availability,
OpenMRS plays a vital role in healthcare delivery across diverse implementations, helping clinicians record patient information, manage visits, and track conditions over time. As healthcare organizations increasingly look to data for insights, a challenge has emerged: how can this rich, localized data be shared, analyzed, and understood across systems and countries? This is where the
One of the biggest hurdles that long lasting organizations such as OpenMRS face over the years isn’t just building their solution, but being able to effectively educate and train the people who use, implement, and extend these solutions. And with OpenMRS evolving rapidly over the past decade, keeping up was quite the challenge for newcomers
In this article, Technical Writer Fellow Prince Onyeanuna shares his experience working on the OpenMRS Wiki in 2024. The beauty of working in an open-source community like OpenMRS is that you’re never truly alone. I posted a call for volunteers on Talk, our community forum, and soon, I had a small but mighty team ready
By David Asaolu, July 29, 2024 Emerging technologies have contributed greatly to improving existing software solutions. OpenMRS, a community-driven electronic medical record system, has embraced these advancements to provide excellent healthcare services to patients and a seamless experience for implementers and healthcare professionals. In this article, we will be focusing on the technology behind the
By David Asaolu, July 11, 2024 OpenMRS is a digital health global good that began in 2004 in Eldoret, Kenya, with the initial aim of managing patient information at AMPATH healthcare facilities to combat the HIV/AIDS outbreak. Since then, OpenMRS has developed into a world-leading community and electronic medical record system that improves patient care
By David Asaolu, June 30, 2024 OpenMRS is a world-leading open-source electronic medical record system used in over 80 countries for millions of patients, supporting quality healthcare delivery and research worldwide. Over the past two decades, OpenMRS has continued to improve and evolve the product to ensure that it aligns closely with the community of
