OpenMRS is an open source medical records system or EMR with a global community.
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,
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
OpenMRS is proud to announce our summer internships for 2009. We are once again participating in Google Summer of Code. We are also mentoring projects this summer as part of our IDRC-funded OpenMRS Internship Program (OIP), which focuses on mentoring and capacity building in developing countries. This summer’s interns come from nine different countries.
The first official release OpenMRS 1.4 is now available for download at http://openmrs.org/wiki/Downloads. This is our new stable release, replacing 1.3.4. Important note: Upgrading to 1.4 will update your database in a way that cannot be undone, so you cannot go back to 1.3 after upgrading. Please be sure to backup your database before doing
OpenMRS is once again proud to announce our participation in the 2009 Google Summer of Code! This will be our third year of participation in the program and the collective mentorship wisdom our community has accumulated over the past couple of years should help make this our best year yet! Last year’s students set a
We now have the long-awaited release candidate for OpenMRS 1.4. You can find this on the pre-releases section of the downloads page. What does “Release Candidate” mean? This is not yet a final release: we recommend that most people continue running their production systems off the latest stable release, which is 1.3.4. But at this
OpenMRS 1.3.4 has been released. This is a bug fix release over the current 1.3.3 release. See the release notes for details. 1.3.4 can be downloaded from http://download.openmrs.org.
OpenMRS 1.3.3 has been released. This is a bug fix release over the current 1.3.2 release. See the release notes for more information. 1.3.3 can be downloaded from http://download.openmrs.org.
We’re now entering the third week of the E-Health: Software Development and Implementation course (or EHSDI) in Rwanda. (Which means this blog post is about two weeks too late, but who’s counting?) The government of Rwanda has chosen to use OpenMRS as a national medical record system, used at all health facilities, as part of
Thanks to a big contribution from the Millennium Villages Project and Andreas Kollegger, we now have a richer way of representing concept names. You can read more about this here. So with that big change, we’re drawing a line in the sand and releasing OpenMRS 1.4 beta. You can find that on the pre-releases page.
