Greetings! OpenMRS provides a great clinical data gathering and analyzation tool as well as a wonderful platform for an integrated hospital management information system (HMIS). However, the business management pieces to implement such a comprehensive HMIS within OpenMRS are not complete and those pieces that do exist lack an overall cohesiveness. The Christian Health Association of Kenya (CHAK) would like to fill that gap and add a comprehensive HMIS suite that is built on top of OpenMRS.
Our goal is to be the go-to solution for HMIS software at hospitals that cannot afford expensive commercial software packages. We will create the core modules required to work within an HMIS ecosystem which we will define. This will eventually entail creating modules to handle every aspect of hospital management along with the necessary connections to other modules, though this is a goal that may not be reached for some time. While we will be working with specific hospitals for our implementations we will design each module to be used in many varied environments. We know that some modules to do this type of work already exist and, where possible, we would like to extend these modules. In a quick survey of the current OpenMRS modules that provide some HMIS features we found the following: Billing Module <https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Billing+Module> Facility Data Module<https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Facility+Data+Module> Radiology Module <https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Radiology+Module> Register Module <https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Register+Module> Registration Module<https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Registration+Module> Simple Pharmacy Module<https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Simple+Pharmacy+Module> If there are other applicable modules that we have missed please let us know. We are writing here to both announce our effort to the OpenMRS development community and ask for your help. We are currently in the design phases of this project and hope to take advantage of the great wealth of information the OpenMRS developers have to share. As mentioned before, we also hope to build on top of some of the excellent HMIS modules that already exist, unless there are objections to this. Questions Going Forward 1. Can/Should we reuse any of the OpenMRS supporting services. Like any software project we will need: 1. Project management space 2. Bug tracking 3. A public web site 4. A wiki and documentation 5. Source code hosting 6. A build server We have already set up an empty github repository at https://github.com/OpenHMIS/OpenHMIS as that provides many of the above for free and will add members to it as requested. 2. Can/Should this be created as just a set of modules or something more concrete that sits on top of OpenMRS? Thanks very much, we appreciate any feedback that you may have! -The OpenHMIS Team *OpenHMIS Team Info* Vincent Kiarie HMIS Manager CHAK, Nairobi KENYA Stephen Letchford, MD FACP FAAP Medical Director CHAK Working Group member AIC Kijabe Hospital, Kijabe KENYA Meshack Kawinzi Medical Informatics Intern CHAK, Nairobi KENYA Wes Brown Senior Software Developer CHAK, Nairobi KENYA [email protected] IRC: ibewes _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-devel-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l]
