OpenMRS is an open source medical records system or EMR with a global community.
In late August 2010, the OpenMRS community and the REACH Informatics team led a training week in Eldoret, Kenya at the facilities of the USAID-AMPATH Partnership, one of the developing world’s largest and most successful health care programs to fight HIV/AIDS. The week-long training event attracted 15 participants from Malawi, Tanzania, Ghana, Kenya, and Sudan
John Kieti is a Database Specialist at Kenya’s National AIDS Control Council as well as a technology blogger at www.gmeltdown.com. Last week, I had this great opportunity to be a participant at the fifth annual OpenMRS implementers meeting in Cape Town. The meeting brought together implementers, developers, and the leadership of OpenMRS. The meeting was
As many of you know, we are in the process of forming a non-profit organization to support the continued growth of the OpenMRS community. Given that we all deeply believe that the success of this organization relies upon the contributions of people like you, it’s time to ask for a favor. As I mentioned at
INDIANAPOLIS — The OpenMRS community has won the best paper contest at MEDINFO 2010, the 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics. MEDINFO is organized every three years by the International Medical Informatics Association, and is the largest international conference in the field of medical informatics with over 3000 attendees. The best paper award
INDIANAPOLIS — AMIA, the U.S.-based association for medical informatics professionals, has launched a non-profit organization called the Global Health Informatics Partnership (GHIP) to serve as an international center for collaborative initiatives on health informatics. The project includes several leaders in global health informatics, including Health Metrics Network, a partnership hosted by the World Health Organization;
If you’ve been here before, by now you realize the OpenMRS project is looks quite different. In the last two months, we’ve made a lot of changes! Read on to learn what’s new around OpenMRS.org.
To all dedicated and motivated OpenMRS developers and implementers- It is my pleasure to announce the release of 1.7.0 RC. Please help us and the community by taking a few minutes and testing the best features that you currently use and the new features you cannot wait to use. Then, should you be lucky to
To all dedicated and motivated OpenMRS developers and implementers- It is my pleasure to announce the release of 1.7.0 beta. Please help us and the community by taking a few minutes and testing the best features that you currently use and the new features you cannot wait to use. Then, should you be lucky to
I’m very proud to announce 1.7.0 alpha is now available! It is packed with new features! Check below for the highlights. Note, 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 and testing the best features that you currently
OpenMRS is happy to announce two OIP students joining our 2010 summer internships. Sagar Shah (India) will be mentored by Saptarshi on a SimpleFinance Module project and Harsha Halgaswatta (Sri Lanka) will be mentored by Darius on a UI Framework project. Welcome and congratulations to Sagar and Harsha!
