OpenMRS is an open source medical records system or EMR with a global community.
Editor’s Note: Starting in 2013, we will be highlighting an OpenMRS contributor every month, giving you the opportunity to learn more about the people building the OpenMRS software and community. More information about the Contributor of the Month program is available on the OpenMRS wiki. We welcome your feedback about the program and your nominations
At a glance: OpenMRS is moving the code from our SVN server to a new Git repository on GitHub. If you have the openmrs code checked out on your machine, you will have to make the switch! See Using Git. OpenMRS code has been self-hosted on a Subversion server for the last 7 years. That
Congratulations to the 18 students selected by OpenMRS to participate in Google Summer of Code™ this year! A total of 1,122 students were selected to participate with 180 different open source projects. As the organization administrators for the program, we are thrilled to announce our 6th and largest year of participation yet in the annual event
It is my pleasure to announce the release of OpenMRS 1.9.0 RC3 (Third Release Candidate) which you can get from the downloads page. It has a number of bugs fixed in the core application and some bundled modules. See changes since the second release candidate in the release notes. We have also made more improvements to
We are happy to announce the release of OpenMRS 1.9.0 RC2 (Second Release Candidate) which you can get from the downloads page. It has a number of bugs fixed in the core application and some bundled modules. See changes since the first release candidate in the release notes. The standalone version has a new option
Thanks to everyone who tested our alpha release of 1.9. We have released 1.9 Beta which you can get from the downloads page. See the changes since alpha in the release notes. We have also released a module to help you test this beta using your existing data. Read more about it from: Release Testing
Today during our weekly OpenMRS Implementers Forum, Ali Habib, Director of Informatics for Interactive Research and Development (IRD), gave a demo on IRD’s use of the MDR-TB module. According to Ali, “Tajikistan has one of the highest rates of MDR-TB in the world, and there was a need for improved data collection and management for
Earlier this year, OpenMRS participated once again in Google Summer of Code, a worldwide program organized by Google’s Open Source Programs Office to expose university students to the world of free and open source software, and encourage those students to become long-term contributors to projects that interest them. OpenMRS has been participating in Summer of
I’m pleased to announce that OpenMRS 1.9 alpha is now available! You can download it here. Note that this version of OpenMRS is a pre-release and not considered worthy for production use. Please help us and the community by taking a few minutes to test the best features that you currently use and the new
Recently, I had the rare privilege of attending the annual implementers conference of OpenMRS, my Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring organization. Thanks largely to the conference sponsorship by Google, OpenMRS was able to fund my week-long visit to Kigali, Rwanda. I travelled over 4,500 miles to Rwanda, and spent a week meeting with core
