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OpenMRS 1.6 Beta Released

Hi All, Thanks to everyone who tested our alpha release of 1.6, we’re releasing 1.6 Beta. You can get it on the downloads page. We’ve made only two significant changes since the alpha: We’ve implemented “core modules” properly, meaning that we may now have modules that are required by core, and OpenMRS will not start

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OpenMRS 1.6 Alpha

Hi OpenMRS Community, Our first alpha preview release of OpenMRS 1.6 is ready! First off, I’d like to thank the 35 developers who contributed code to this release: Agnor, arthurs, ayeung, ball, bmckown, bwolfe, cliff.mcintosh, dfuterman, djazayeri, dthomas, emendez, ewolodzko, hkwathome, jamesm, jmiranda, Keelhaul, Knoll_Frank, luzhuangwei, madanmohan, mkopinsky, mogoodrich, mseaton, msheley, n.nehete, nribeka, Pascal, r0bby,

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OpenMRS 1.6 Alpha Released

Hi OpenMRS Community, Our first alpha preview release of OpenMRS 1.6 is ready! First off, I’d like to thank the 35 developers who contributed code to this release: Agnor, arthurs, ayeung, ball, bmckown, bwolfe, cliff.mcintosh, dfuterman, djazayeri, dthomas, emendez, ewolodzko, hkwathome, jamesm, jmiranda, Keelhaul, Knoll_Frank, luzhuangwei, madanmohan, mkopinsky, mogoodrich, mseaton, msheley, n.nehete, nribeka, Pascal, r0bby,

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OpenMRS 1.5.0 Released!

1.5 is packed with new features! Simplified upgrades Simplified initial startup and deployment Ability to store large “complex” observations Better support for UTF-8 characters Improved memory management Automatic UUIDs added for all objects/rows A larger and more detailed list of features can be found on the release notes page. To upgrade from 1.3/1.4 to 1.5,

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Latin American Open Source Health Informatics Meeting, Oct. 26-31, Peru

We’re very excited to announce the 1st Annual Latin American Open Source Health Informatics Meeting (IMeCA 2009) in Lima, Peru the 26-31 of October 2009. The principal objectives of the 1st IMeCA 2009 are: Show the benefits of open source electronic medical record software and community development to empower local organizations Understand the issues and

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OpenMRS Workshop for Central America

Joaquin Blaya writes: We just finished a 3 day (July 8-10, 2009) workshop on OpenMRS in Guatemala for Ministry of Health and CDC personnel from different Central American countries… Read the post

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OpenMRS Meeting in Boston

On May 26th we had an OpenMRS developers and implementers meeting in Boston at Harvard Medical School. The goal was to introduce people in the US east coast to OpenMRS, and to give developers, users and potential users a chance to meet and learn about the system. We also provided phone and Skype connections for

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Mini OpenMRS Conference in Haiti

On June 24-25, 2009, Hospital Albert Schweitzer, in Deschapelles Haiti, is planning to host a mini OpenMRS Implementers Conference. They are doing this specifically for Visitation Hospital in Petite Riviere de Nippes, to help them get setup to run OpenMRS. They wanted to invite anyone else (primarily those in Haiti) who are interested to participate,

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Darius Jazayeri wins 2009 Pizzigati Prize for Public Interest Computing

Darius Jazayeri has won the 2009 Pizzigati Prize for Public Interest Computing from the Tides Foundation, partly for his work on OpenMRS. Darius has worked on open source medical records in developing countries with Partners in Health for eight years where he is the lead software designer, and has been one of the lead designers

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