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Open Source Health Information Business Ecosystems in Resource-Poor Environments

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

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OpenMRS 1.7 Now Available

With our thanks and support to the worldwide OpenMRS development community, we are happy to announce that OpenMRS 1.7 is now available for download. If you’d like to try it out first, take a look at our online demo. The latest version of OpenMRS offers increased stability and several new features, including: Problem lists and

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Join us in Washington DC!

Next week, several people from the OpenMRS community will be attending and presenting at the 2nd mHealth Summit in Washington, DC from November 8-10. If you’ll be attending, or in the Washington area, join us next Tuesday evening, November 9, starting around 8:00 PM at Eighteenth Street Lounge for an informal evening of conversation, drinks, as well

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OpenMRS Developer to Speak at Portland State University Nov. 9

Lecture: “Partners In Health: Fighting for social justice and healthcare for the poor” OpenMRS developer Darius Jazayeri will discuss his work with Partners in Health in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda and beyond WHAT: Darius Jazayeri, former Partners in Health (PIH) lead developer and project manager of medical record systems, will give a free talk at PSU

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OpenMRS Training in Eldoret, Kenya

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

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Insights From 5th Annual OpenMRS Meeting

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

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OpenMRS Board Nominations…

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

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