OpenMRS is an open source medical records system or EMR with a global community.
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
Our community has grown and evolved significantly over the years, and sometimes we need to reorganize the way we do things. Based on feedback from OpenMRS community members we’ve gone back to the drawing board and put together a slate of OpenMRS-related calls that should make our community more effective, and improve collaborations in the
We’re proud to announce OpenMRS Answers, a new resource to get support in the OpenMRS community. Check it out now: https://answers.openmrs.org/ The Answers service works in cooperation with other OpenMRS support resources including our mailing lists and wiki, to serve as a clearinghouse for people to ask questions about using or developing with OpenMRS. Along
I’m pleased to announce the availability of OpenMRS 1.8.2. In this minor release, below are the bugs that were fixed with one major one: (Major) A fix to display the last 3 encounters for a patient on the form entry tab on the patient dashboard which was broken. The concept statistics page was also fixed for
The OpenMRS community is pleased to announce that we will have 16 smart and talented university students working with us over the next several months as part of Google Summer of Code 2011. In alphabetical order by first name, they are: Balachandiran Ajanthan Christopher Zakian Emanuel Claesson Gaurav Paliwal Gauthami Pingili Goutham Vasireddi Jelena Skorucak
Write code. Save lives. The OpenMRS community is pleased to announce that it has been selected to participate as a mentoring organization for a 5th year in Google Summer of Code™. We’ve enjoyed participating in this great program in the last 4 years and are even more excited about the projects and mentors we have available this year.
The OpenMRS leadership team met in Boston earlier this month to review OpenMRS priorities. Before meeting, we asked for your feedback on OpenMRS priorities to help guide the road map over the next year. Your feedback really helped inform our discussion and focus our priorities. We heard very clear priorities for improving existing functionality and
How is OpenMRS being implemented in India? What !?! you can run a full-instance of OpenMRS on the Android? Find out how recent Harvard School of Public Health graduate Jon Payne is travelling the world and leading new projects with D-Tree International. In this video interview, OpenMRS community volunteer Glen McCallum talks to Jonathan Payne
Here’s a shout out to our friends at ThoughtWorks. They had a code jam on the OpenMRS Flowsheet Module a few weeks ago and knocked out over half a dozen key tickets in a single day as well as making progress on others. The Flowsheet Module is being installed into OpenMRS at AMPATH in Kenya
