Wonderful! So it appears that you received your funding and are now underway! This is a great project and obviously we are interested in collaborating in Kenya. There is also the question about linking to DHIS2 there as well. I will leave these questions up to the dev community to provide feedback, but I am very excited to hear that you are moving forward!
Best wishes, Andy -------------------- Andrew S. Kanter, MD MPH - Director of Health Information Systems/Medical Informatics Millennium Villages Project, Earth Institute, Columbia University - Asst. Prof. of Clinical Biomedical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology Columbia University Email: [email protected] Mobile: +1 (646) 469-2421 Office: +1 (212) 305-4842 Skype: akanter-ippnw Yahoo: andy_kanter >________________________________ > From: Wesley Brown <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 6:26 AM >Subject: [OPENMRS-DEV] Request for Feedback > > >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 >>Facility Data Module >>Radiology Module >>Register Module >>Registration Module >>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 >________________________________ > Click here to unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list > > _________________________________________ 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]
