OpenMRS is an open source medical records system or EMR with a global community.
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
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
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
For years, health care workers spent considerable time and effort navigating various guidelines for patient care coming from their own ministries of health as well as global bodies. At the same time, the OpenMRS community has long sought a solution for Decision Support rule authorship and calculation. SMART Guidelines offer countries and global goods a
At some point, all software undergoes a significant evolution. OpenMRS is no different. Since its inception in 2005, OpenMRS has seen its share of technology shifts and updates. Whether it is an update to core technologies and tooling or new features and functionality, these improvements often find their way to OpenMRS implementations through platform, module,
The long awaited OpenMRS Reference Application 2.13.0 has been released! This release is build on Platform 2.5.9 and it falls in openmrs 2.x. line with several bug fixes and new features included. Please see the Release notes for more information. As always, if you find any bugs, feel free to report them in our ticket
This is to let everyone know that the OpenMRS Platform 2.6.0 has been released!. This is a major release version of the OpenMRS API that follows 2.5.8. Something exciting and worth mentioning is that the alpha and beta releases have successfully been tested against the UAT Platform Server, the qarefapp server and openMRS 3.0 with
As the end of the 2022 Fellowship Program was fast approaching, 2022 fellows were given an opportunity (through the OpenMRS Fellowship Symposium) to showcase their work, and share their journey, experiences, and lessons learned. The semi-formal symposium was hosted on 15 November 2022. Six fellows presented at the symposium: Hadijah Kyampeire (Development Fellow), Joshua Nsereko
The OpenMRS Community is committed to being user-driven and has long held community-driven Design Forums. Questions around how we engage users and integrate design into our community processes have periodically surfaced in the community. An entire unconferencing session was dedicated to UI/UX Design Process + Human Centered Design at the 2018 OpenMRS Implementers Meeting. We’ve
On Wednesday, 13th July 2022, we hosted a fellowship all hands to listen to fellows’ learnings and experiences. All hands are the semi-formal gathering of fellows, mentors, and the OpenMRS board, which is hosted in the interval every two months featuring the presentation from fellows and their mentors. The idea behind all hands was; To
