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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