OpenMRS is an open source medical records system or EMR with a global community.
Background In the process of upgrading the software license for OpenMRS, it seems like a good time to review how we got here and why we’re changing our license. Here’s a brief history of OpenMRS Licensing: 2004 – OpenMRS is born as an informal collaboration between Regenstrief & Partners In Health starting with a data model,
Each month, we highlight one of our community contributors so you have the chance to learn to learn more about the people involved in OpenMRS. This month, our community manager Michael Downey “sat down” virtually with Suranga Kasthurirathne from Sri Lanka to learn more about his story. MD: Hi Suranga. Congratulations on being named the
INDIANAPOLIS AND BOSTON, MARCH 23 — OpenMRS, an Indianapolis-based free software platform for Health IT in the developing world, has received the 2012 Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit. The award was announced on March 23 at the Free Software Foundation’s annual LibrePlanet conference held at Harvard University, and is presented each year
Every month the OpenMRS community highlights one of its contributors in the OpenMRS so you have the chance to learn to learn more about the people involved in the project. This month, OpenMRS community manager Michael Downey introduces you to Lluis Martinez from Spain. More information about the Contributor of the Month program is available
In 2004, work began to build OpenMRS at the AMPATH program Western Kenya. The system would later be switched on in the year 2006 as OpenMRS evolved from a solution at a single clinic to a worldwide collaboration. As we grew, we found that the best ideas come from people with different backgrounds and talents, so
Each month, we highlight one of the contributors in the OpenMRS community, giving you the opportunity to learn more about the people involved in the project. This month, we’re featuring Roger Friedman, a long-time contributor to the project from the United States. OpenMRS community manager Michael Downey had a chat with Roger to talk about
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
