OpenMRS is an open source medical records system or EMR with a global community.
Recently, I had the rare privilege of attending the annual implementers conference of OpenMRS, my Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring organization. Thanks largely to the conference sponsorship by Google, OpenMRS was able to fund my week-long visit to Kigali, Rwanda. I travelled over 4,500 miles to Rwanda, and spent a week meeting with core
Our community has grown and evolved significantly over the years, and sometimes we need to reorganize the way we do things. Based on feedback from OpenMRS community members we’ve gone back to the drawing board and put together a slate of OpenMRS-related calls that should make our community more effective, and improve collaborations in the
We’re proud to announce OpenMRS Answers, a new resource to get support in the OpenMRS community. Check it out now: https://answers.openmrs.org/ The Answers service works in cooperation with other OpenMRS support resources including our mailing lists and wiki, to serve as a clearinghouse for people to ask questions about using or developing with OpenMRS. Along
I’m pleased to announce the availability of OpenMRS 1.8.2. In this minor release, below are the bugs that were fixed with one major one: (Major) A fix to display the last 3 encounters for a patient on the form entry tab on the patient dashboard which was broken. The concept statistics page was also fixed for
I’m pleased to announce the availability of OpenMRS 1.8.1. In this minor release, a couple of bugs have been fixed and a few minor enhancements have been added. There are no database changes since OpenMRS 1.8.0. As a reminder, we now offer a new “standalone” version of OpenMRS. With this version, everything you need to
I’m pleased to announce the availability of OpenMRS 1.8. Recently, we asked the OpenMRS community for suggestions on how to improve the performance of our system in “real world” implementations. After collecting a lot of feedback, we’re proud to announce this latest version, which is less focused on new functionality, and more focused on making existing
The OpenMRS community is pleased to announce that we will have 16 smart and talented university students working with us over the next several months as part of Google Summer of Code 2011. In alphabetical order by first name, they are: Balachandiran Ajanthan Christopher Zakian Emanuel Claesson Gaurav Paliwal Gauthami Pingili Goutham Vasireddi Jelena Skorucak
I’m glad to announce that OpenMRS 1.8.0 RC is now available! You can download it here OpenMRS 1.8.0 RC has a number of bugs fixed in the past couple of weeks in the core application and some bundled modules. See the release notes for the complete list of bug fixes. You can download OpenMRS 1.8.0 RC
Write code. Save lives. The OpenMRS community is pleased to announce that it has been selected to participate as a mentoring organization for a 5th year in Google Summer of Code™. We’ve enjoyed participating in this great program in the last 4 years and are even more excited about the projects and mentors we have available this year.
The OpenMRS leadership team met in Boston earlier this month to review OpenMRS priorities. Before meeting, we asked for your feedback on OpenMRS priorities to help guide the road map over the next year. Your feedback really helped inform our discussion and focus our priorities. We heard very clear priorities for improving existing functionality and
