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The EMR4All Journey: How a Volunteer-Led Mission is Transforming Digital Health in Remote Communities
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 Potma 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…
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UgandaEMR+ O3 Success Story: UgandaEMR’s Journey with OpenMRS 3
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…
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KenyaEMR O3 Success Story: How KenyaEMR leveraged and innovated with the new OpenMRS
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…
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How OpenMRS Is Embracing Cloud Hosting and Clustering
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,…