Openmrs Blog
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A Visual History of OpenMRS Software
By David Asaolu, July 11, 2024 OpenMRS is a digital health global good that began in 2004 in Eldoret, Kenya, with the initial aim of managing patient information at AMPATH healthcare facilities to combat the HIV/AIDS outbreak. Since then, OpenMRS has developed into a world-leading community and electronic medical record system that improves patient care…
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O3: The New OpenMRS Explained and the Investments that made it possible
By David Asaolu, June 30, 2024 OpenMRS is a world-leading open-source electronic medical record system used in over 80 countries for millions of patients, supporting quality healthcare delivery and research worldwide. Over the past two decades, OpenMRS has continued to improve and evolve the product to ensure that it aligns closely with the community of…
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The Types of FHIR Guides Growing in the OpenMRS Ecosystem
Across the Global Goods industry, there is growing momentum about how to use FHIR to achieve interoperability, or evidence-based content guidance. However, there also seems to be confusion when we just talk about “a FHIR Implementation Guide (IG)” without clarifying the type of IG that we mean. For example: This year we have heard other Global…