OpenMRS is an open source medical records system or EMR with a global community.
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
I’m glad to announce that OpenMRS 1.8.0 beta is now available! You can download it here. It is faster and optimized for better performance than the prior releases in several ways, since our main focus for this release was to address the performance bottlenecks in the core application and a couple of modules as the
Ben Wolfe is a core developer for OpenMRS. This information has been cross-posted from his blog. Over time the messages in our Spring message.properties files grow stale. When a developer updates/changes code he/she doesn’t necessarily go to the messages.properties and remove all the keys that they removed from code. This has no detrimental effect on
What does a sponsor/funder think of OpenMRS? In this video interview, OpenMRS community volunteer Glen McCallum talks to Roger Friedman of the US Centers for Disease Control Global AIDS Program. He overseas HIV-related projects in several countries world-wide. Here he shares incite from years of experience implementing clinical systems in low-resource settings.
During September and October 2010, the OpenMRS community nominated individuals to serve for and represent the community on the new, not-for-profit organization’s board of directors. From 29 November to 12 December 2010, an open election was conducted to elect one member from the group of nominees. We are pleased to announce that Joaquín Blaya has
I’m glad to announce that OpenMRS 1.8.0 alpha is now available! you can download it here. I’m confident that it is faster and more optimized for better performance than the prior releases in several ways, since our main focus for this release was to address the performance bottlenecks in the core application and a couple
This article by Dawn Smith about OpenMRS was originally posted in the December 2010 issue of Open Source Business Resource (OSBR), which focuses on Humanitarian Open Source projects. Healthcare is a distinctly information-centric business. The care environments that effectively capture, process, and re-use clinical information are typically more efficient and produce better healthcare outcomes. These functions are
