Introduction

This page coordinates efforts between the many interested groups in the OpenMRS universe. The idea is to identify informal "Working Groups" for each area of development (programming, not organizational or geographic), providing the opportunity for everyone to get some idea what everyone else is doing. Participation is of course not mandatory, but simply encouraged. This is loose, community driven project management.

Working groups are not mutually exclusive. It's ok for their concerns to overlap. Similarly, categorization isn't definitive, but suggestive. The scope and duration of a working group can be broad and long or narrow and short -- if you feel motivated to inform others about some activity that doesn't otherwise have visibility, add it here.

What's important here is that a Working Group is driven by the activity of its members. It is a simple way to recognize and identify common interest. A working group doesn't dictate what people should do, it expresses what people are doing (it is descriptive rather than definitive).

So, if you want to get involved with the OpenMRS community this is the place to start. Take a look at what is going on, think about what you'd like to do, talk to the people working in that area, and just start playing along.

Working Groups

Data Entry

Form entry, mobile data entry

• Members: Andreas Kollegger, Justin Miranda, Chris Kelley, Neal Lesh, Carl Fourie, Mike McKay, Simon Kelly, Christian Allen, Erik Pearson

Data Model

Data model and related implementations (db schema, class definitions) which are central to the entire application.

• Members: User:Ben, User:Paul, User:Burke, User:Akollegger, User:Akanter, Ghislain, User:mikeymckay, User:djazayeri, Christian Allen

Data Transfer

Synchronization, correlation, aggregation, authorization, identification & de-identification of patient data

• Members: User:Akollegger, User:Callen, User:djazayeri,User:nmusinguzi,User:Denis Kaffoko

Data Warehouse

Data warehouse, ETL, Pentaho, OLAP

• Administrator: Justin Miranda
• Group Email: openmrs-data-warehouse-group@googlegroups.com
• Group Webpage: http://groups.google.com/group/openmrs-data-warehouse-group
• Group Members: http://groups.google.com/group/openmrs-data-warehouse-group/members

Decision Support

Improving decision support within OpenMRS

• Members: User:Asangansi, Paul, Martin Were, Burke Mamlin, Moses Ndiritu, Hamish, User:Nlesh, Christian Allen,Denis kaffoko and everyone else (except Elaine...because she's too busy making documentation)

Documentation

Adding documentation to the wiki

• Members: Clemens, Elaine, Justin Miranda, Burke, Andy, User:Michellem, Isaac Holeman

GIS

Using GIS to solve health-care related problems

• Members: Pascal

i18n

Internationalization and localization issues.

• Members: Andreas Kollegger, Andy Kanter, User:Burke, User:djazayeri, User:Patrick Manyika, Michael Downey

Lab

Focus on building and integrating with Lab systems

• Members: User:Nlesh, User:Ada, User:Denis kaffoko,Christian Allen

Mentoring

Supporting and encouraging mentoring of new OpenMRS developers

• Members: User:Burke, User:Paul, User:Akollegger, Christian Allen

Mobile and Wireless Technologies

Mobile and wireless technologies for OpenMRS

• Members: Adesina, Sello Mashamaite, User:simon, Justin Miranda, Christian Allen, Erik Pearson

OpenMRS-OpenEHR Archetypes

Introducing OpenEHR

• Members: Paul Biondich, , Ime Asangansi, Timothy Cook, Isaac Holeman

OpenMRS Concept Cooperative (OCC)

Resource for sharing and aggregating dictionary concepts between electronic medical record systems.

• Members: Paul Biondich, Ben Wolfe, Burke Mamlin, Martin Were, Ime Asangansi, Andrew Kanter, Shaun Grannis

Reporting

Reporting frameworks and report generation

• Administrator: Justin Miranda
• Group Email: openmrs-reporting-group@googlegroups.com
• Group Webpage: http://groups.google.com/group/openmrs-reporting-group
• Group Members: http://groups.google.com/group/openmrs-reporting-group/members
• Other Members: Elaine, Godfrey Kapinga, Knut Staring, Darius, Ada, Simon, Kieran

To join the Google Group, go to the group webpage above and click on 'Join this group'. If you have any issues getting started, send me an email (Justin Miranda).

Standards

Working on meeting standards needs

• Members: Shaheen Khotu, Chris Seebregts, Ercilia, Shabani Cishahayo

eHealth

Applying and integrating telemedicine technologies with OpenMRS

• Members: Ghislain, Adesina, Kurt Brauchli

End-User Interface

Redesigning OpenMRS's user interface to be easiest for the end-user

• Members: User:Bhsiung, User:Djazayeri, Christian Allen, User:Michael

Visualization

3-D, graphs, and other visualizations of medical data

• Members: Christian Allen, User:Bhsiung, Michael Downey

Field Guide

The OpenMRS Field Guide is a new and (very) incomplete resource that aims to help implementers with the nuts and bolts of beginning and sustaining a successful implementation of OpenMRS, from securing electricity to maintaining data quality.

Members: Isaac Holeman, Michael Downey

Point of Care

Work Group Deliverables:

• Describe potential benefits of point of care systems
• Collect case studies of point of care systems in resource poor settings.
• Describe challenges faced by implementers of above case studies.
• Write specifications for how OpenMRS community can address these challenges by:
  • Using thin clients or mobile devices that are appropriate to point of care
  • Adapting user interface to support point of care
  • Adapting data model/software design to support point of care

Members: Isaac Holeman

Working Groups

Help and general support for other working groups. Got questions about any of this? Ask us.

• Members: User:Akollegger, Burke

Capability Building

Structured learning programs that integrate OpenMRS within programs

• Members: User:Amarcelo

HMIS

Discusses the different needs for Hospital Management Information Systems and how OpenMRS can fill those needs.

• Members: User:Ben