FYI, the MVP eHealth team and I will be in NBO from Feb 27 - Mar 2 for a training. We will be busy, but might still allow some time for a discussion over dinner, etc...
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 12:04 PM >Subject: Re: [OPENMRS-DEV] Request for Feedback > > >Thanks for the kind welcome! > > >We would love to discuss what functionality should and should not belong >within the OpenMRS ecosystem; we have been having much the same discussions >ourselves and could certainly benefit from you experience. Given our similar >goals and our relatively close proximity it seems like we should definitely >try to get together at some point. Dr Letchford had wanted us to try to >arrange a trip out there to meet with you folks and see the work you've done; >perhaps we could set something like that up? Though if you or any of the >AMPATH team are ever in Nairobi we should definitely try to meet up! > > >We are really just getting started and will being having design meetings to >create the specifications for the first two modules we plan on building >(registration and finance) in the upcoming weeks. Because this is a new >effort I am hoping to just use github from the start, rather than have to >transition to it at some point in the future. I haven't used the issue >tracking or wiki but I assume that they are good enough for what we'd need, at >least at the start. > > >Our next stage, as I see it, is really to create the specs for the >registration and finance modules and then see how well that fits with what is >currently available. On that note, it may not make sense to try and force a >finance system into OpenMRS but my thinking is to try and include as much as >possible in it to reduce the number of external dependencies. > > >We have been thinking about this for a long time and are excited to be finally >working on it! Hopefully we can work together to benefit both of our efforts. > >I look forward to (hopefully) meeting you in the future! >-Wes > > >On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Jeremy Keiper <[email protected]> wrote: > >Jambo, and welcome to OpenMRS! >> >> >>I work from the USA with AMPATH in Eldoret and would love to talk sometime >>about our common efforts. Our experience so far has been to focus on OpenMRS >>as the master patient record and build systems either to interface with it or >>be embedded based on their use. It is definitely easier to write a module >>and utilize the OpenMRS infrastructure, but some systems can be more quickly >>or more efficiently built on top of other open source projects. If the >>information is medical in nature, or useful to evaluating the patient record, >>it certainly makes sense for that application to be a module. If the >>application simply needs access to certain patient information, perhaps it >>belongs outside. >> >> >>We also have hosted several modules in the OpenMRS-provided subversion >>repository, and have a few projects in JIRA related to those modules. These >>modules are meant to be shared with the community, so it makes sense for us. >>We also have an area in the subversion repository for custom builds for >>AMPATH, although we stopped needing custom builds since 1.8 came out. We >>also maintain our own JIRA for internal development issues that are unrelated >>to the OpenMRS community, and we hope to move to Git sometime in the future >>as OpenMRS slowly gets there. >> >> >>Again, welcome to the community! Members of the AMPATH development team are >>frequently in Nairobi, so perhaps we can meet in person sometime soon. >> >>Jeremy Keiper >>OpenMRS Core Developer >>AMPATH / IU-Kenya Support >> >> >> >> >>On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Andrew Kanter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>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 >>>> >>>> >>> >>>________________________________ >>> Click here to unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list >> >> >>________________________________ >> Click here to unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list > >________________________________ > 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. 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