OpenMRS is an open source medical records system or EMR with a global community.
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
This is to let everyone know that the OpenMRS Platform 2.6.0 has been released!. This is a major release version of the OpenMRS API that follows 2.5.8. Something exciting and worth mentioning is that the alpha and beta releases have successfully been tested against the UAT Platform Server, the qarefapp server and openMRS 3.0 with
As the end of the 2022 Fellowship Program was fast approaching, 2022 fellows were given an opportunity (through the OpenMRS Fellowship Symposium) to showcase their work, and share their journey, experiences, and lessons learned. The semi-formal symposium was hosted on 15 November 2022. Six fellows presented at the symposium: Hadijah Kyampeire (Development Fellow), Joshua Nsereko
Speak with any OpenMRS implementer, community member, or stakeholder about the challenges they face and you will probably hear about the headaches OpenMRS reporting causes and the limited availability of experienced developers. We’ve talked about the different ways we’re tackling OpenMRS reporting challenges in previous blogs and Talk posts. The question is……. What about our talent pipeline? When OpenMRS received
Am pleased to announce that the long awaited openmrs platform 2.4.0 is released: https://talk.openmrs.org/t/openmrs-platform-2-4-0-released/31455 The highlights in this release include: Replaced the fhir module with fhir2 module and support for R4 Upgraded spring to 5.2.9. Upgraded Hibernate to 5.4.21. Added support for Java 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 while not losing support for
It’s a moment of happiness for the OpenMRS community as we announce the OpenMRS Reference Application 2.11.0 release.It’s built on the OpenMRS Platform version 2.3.2 and includes updates and bug fixes of over 40 modules, unfortunately or fortunately we didn’t bundle spa module which was considered a hot cake at the beginning. Please see the
The last we heard from the OpenMRS Quality Assurance Team, they were wrapping up a deep dive into our community’s quality assurance practices and had five key findings to share: Selenium is already set up for testing the OpenMRS Reference Application. OpenMRS core has robust CI testing in place. Better, more effective QA relies on
I would want to gladly announce the awaited Reference Application 2.10.0 Release.It’s built on Platform 2.3.0 and includes bug fixes to over 40 modules.With this release, 1) we removed the Chart Search Module From the Reference Application Modules list2) we also developed the Growth Chart Module for Reference Application, but also not bundled with in the distribution.3) Another
In recognition of the long awaited OpenMRS Platform 2.3.0 release, special thanks goes to the community contributors who offered their time and commitment tirelessly towards this achievement. Contributing to this cause has been an exiting and challenging experience for many contributors. To some contributors, there was zero knowledge about development, yet they are now quite
