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New Release Managers for 2015

We are pleased to announce release managers for upcoming OpenMRS releases. Both are Google Summer of Code 2015 students who volunteered to be release managers. Yay! (FYI – you can follow release plans and progress on the OpenMRS Technical Road Map page) Tharunya Pati (tharunya) is the Release Manager for Reference Application 2.3 Tharunya has recently moved

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OpenMRS Leadership Growth and Spreading the Word

[box type=”info”]In this letter originally posted on OpenMRS Talk, our project leader Paul Biondich describes new developments in OpenMRS community organization and outreach efforts.[/box] Dear OpenMRS Community, If you hadn’t already noticed, our community is in a period of unparalleled growth and evolution.  I wanted to draw your attention to a couple specific activities, and

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Introducing the OpenMRS QA Team!

I am happy to announce that thanks to SolDevelo ( http://www.soldevelo.com/ ) , an Open MRS Quality Assurance Team has been formed! We are a team dedicated to help maintaining software quality. So far we are involved in testing the OpenMRS Reference Application module, but hope to handle also other modules in the future. We

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OpenMRS 2.2 Released

I am happy to announce that OpenMRS 2.2 has just been released today, 04/23/15. This is the latest version of OpenMRS 2.x versions. OpenMRS 2.2 releases includes the latest UI with more functionality “out of the box” that should help you be more productive, faster. This wouldn’t have been possible without the contributions of various volunteers from our

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OpenMRS joins Open Source Initiative as Affiliate Member

Partnership highlights core values of both organizations in ensuring access to all members within communities. The Open Source Initiative ® (OSI), recognized globally for their work in promoting and protecting open source software and development communities, announced today the Affiliate Membership of OpenMRS®, a free and open source health IT platform. The OpenMRS community works

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OpenMRS Platform 1.11.0 Released

We are very glad to announce to you that; OpenMRS Platform 1.11.0 has just been released today, 11/01/15. Here is the solution to your previous challenges with OpenMRS platform. The release contains atleast 210 bug fixes, 76 new features, 24 tasks, 27 sub-tasks and 53 Database changes plus 9 changes module developers wouldn’t want to miss looking

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OpenMRS Platform 1.10.1 Released!

OpenMRS 1.10.1 has just been released. The release mainly contains a re-work of the order entry API and some bug fixes. A huge thanks to the people that contributed code to this release: Daniel Kayiwa, Darius Jazayeri, Deepak N, Paweł Muchowski, Radoslaw Puzdrowski, Rafal Korytkowski, Rohan Poddar, Vinay Venu, Wyclif Luyima. Not to mention all the

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Ebola: A Call to Action for OpenMRS

Friends, The OpenMRS community has long recognized that in many of the countries where our software is used, the public health system is weak. Over the past several months, the world has been faced with the consequences of this weakness in West Africa, as nations struggle to contain the deadly Ebola virus. Without more effective

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Let’s Get Together: OpenMRS Event Announcements

In 2006, a small group of OpenMRS implementers gathered outside Cape Town, South Africa, to share some of their early work using the platform to improve health care delivery in their respective countries. Since then, groups of implementers have hosted the community in other places around the world, including Rwanda, Philippines, and Kenya. These face-to-face

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Recovering from Heartbleed

Friday, 11 April 2014 If you’ve followed the news from this past week, you may have heard about the “Heartbleed” security issue that’s affected a large part of the Internet. I wanted to take a few moments to update you about what we’ve done to recover from this issue and protect the data of contributors

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