Hamish, I also found the Armstrong video very good and have shared it with 
members if our College ACHI, here in Oz. I look forward to the enhancements you 
suggest. Terry



On 03/09/2011, at 6:19, "Fraser, Hamish S.F." <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> The Lance Armstrong video is a good demo and an exciting development for the 
> community. 
> 
> I would very much like to see a conversation evolve in the community about 
> how to share application and UI components. There is great interest in more 
> interactive and visual components for OpenMRS, and some nice examples in the 
> community such as patient registration, OpenMRS-TB, patient summaries, and 
> the reporting framework. Many of these will be showcased at the Kigali 
> meeting. I would also like to see more showcased on the OpenMRS demo site.
> 
> While there will remain a need for some custom components for data 
> visualization, new workflows etc. it would be great to see re-use of most 
> application/UI components allowing all the benefits of testing, documentation 
> and fine tuning that we have seen with HTML form entry and and X-forms for 
> example. We are also looking for opportunities to move the new UI framework 
> forward which could be of particular interest to larger projects thinking of 
> doing signification work with OpenMRS but that would like to benefit from the 
> community support going forward.
> 
> I am sure there are additional cool things going on in the community that are 
> not widely known. Anyone want to send round screen shots or do a demo on the 
> new implementers call?
> Regards
> 
> Hamish Fraser
> 
> Director of Informatics and Telemedicine
> Partners In Health
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Blaya, 
> Joaquin Andres [[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 2:51 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OPENMRS-IMPLEMENTERS] Médecins sans frontières  (aka Doctors 
> without borders) interest in OpenMRS
> 
> Burke,
> The system looks great on adobe connect. Do you know if they have any plans 
> of making their modules open and/or uploading them to the modules page?
> 
> Joaquin
> 
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Chief Technology Officer, eHealth Systems Chile
> Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School/Partners In Health
> Moderator, GHDOnline.org
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Burke Mamlin
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 15:45
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OPENMRS-IMPLEMENTERS] Médecins sans frontières (aka Doctors 
> without borders) interest in OpenMRS
> 
> You can see their demo here:
> http://breeze.iu.edu/p1zyh96i5xy/?archiveOffset=466000
> 
> Take a look at that recording and, if you want more - i.e., you want to get 
> Jeremy & Hui to present within the implementers forum, let 
> Hamish/Andy/Dawn/myself know & I'll get Hamish & Andy hooked up with Jeremy & 
> Hui to get it on the schedule.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -Burke
> 
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Glen McCallum <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>        Burke . Lance Armstrong demo on the implementers call . please?
> 
> 
>        Glen
> 
>        On 2011-09-01, at 10:51 AM, Burke Mamlin wrote:
> 
> 
>                The benefit of doing this with a module is that the full 
> OpenMRS application is still available to you.  We recently had a demo from a 
> Lance Armstrong-funded project where they developed a patient health record 
> (PHR) atop OpenMRS within a module that completely replaced the UI of OpenMRS.
> 
>                -Burke
> 
> 
>                On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Dave Thomas 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>                        Hi.  I just wanted to second this, there are many 
> examples of alternate interfaces that have been built on top of the openmrs 
> api, like the touchscreen registration module we're running here in rwanda, 
> or the mdrtb module.  I've also in the past built a deidentified data entry 
> interface for a large epi study based in lima.  These are all examples in 
> which the user doesn't have to (or can't) interact with the default ui at 
> all.  In some cases the interface seen by the user is role-based, meaning 
> that you can have totally different interfaces for different real-life roles 
> against the same implementation.
> 
>                        D
> 
> 
>                        Glen McCallum <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Thang:
>> 
>> You might want to consider the user interface layer of openmrs separate from 
>> the server platform openmrs. About 80% of OpenMRS is application server and 
>> database software and it is decoupled from the web layer.
>> 
>> From what I've observed (anyone, feel free to correct me) the user 
>> interaction with the system was designed around a certain workflow. This 
>> includes clinicians filling out paper forms then . later ... data entry 
>> clerks transcribing those forms into the system (retrospective capture, as 
>> Andy said).
>> 
>> So if you're considering "physician point-of-care electronic documentation" 
>> around specific topics . it might be worth developing your own web layer and 
>> communicating with the OpenMRS server platform via the Rest API. This would 
>> support your unique workflow and, in addition, you could make the program 
>> appear very basic/simple to the end user.
>> 
>> regards,
>> Glen
>> 
>> On 2011-08-23, at 3:30 AM, Andrew Kanter wrote:
>> 
>>> Thang,
>>> 
>>> There are many ways to hide the complexity of OpenMRS but continue to use 
>>> the application and database as the back end. In MVP, we are using OpenMRS 
>>> in all 10 African countries, with different applications for different 
>>> users at the front end. Our Community Health Workers use ChildCount+ 
>>> (RapidSMS) and this feeds into OpenMRS. Our clinics use OpenMRS primarily 
>>> retrospectively, although we are looking at prospective entry for 
>>> immunizations and children in some places. We also use ODK and xforms to 
>>> capture Verbal Autopsy data and this all goes into OpenMRS.
>>> 
>>> Happy to discuss and will definitely be in Kigali.
>>> 
>>> 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 <tel:%2B1%20%28646%29%20469-2421>
>>> Office: +1 (212) 305-4842 <tel:%2B1%20%28212%29%20305-4842>
>>> Skype: akanter-ippnw
>>> Yahoo: andy_kanter
>>> From: Thang Dao <[email protected]>
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 3:53 AM
>>> Subject: [OPENMRS-IMPLEMENTERS] Médecins sans frontières (aka Doctors 
>>> without borders) interest in OpenMRS
>>> 
>>> Dear Implementers,
>>> 
>>> We at Médecins sans frontières are interested in using OpenMRS data model
>>> to underlie our new generation of medical data collection tools.
>>> 
>>> More and more of our operations are dealing with chronic diseases and/or
>>> states of malnutrition.
>>> 
>>> To support following up our patients, we are thinking of introducing a
>>> medical record system in a pervasive way, yet masking out the complexity.
>>> 
>>> Thus our strategy is to opt for OpenMRS data model, yet introducing only
>>> part of what is needed only, because our field users are not computer
>>> literate.
>>> 
>>> For instance, for our "Street violence" project in Honduras, we collect
>>> data about young children living on the streets (name, sex), the type of
>>> abuse they were victims of (sexual agression, ...), when it occurred (1
>>> hour, 6 hours ago...) and the treatment we provided (basic care, bandage,
>>> condoms distribution, ...).
>>> 
>>> We meet the children again and then collect more data on the encounter.
>>> 
>>> Since strolling the streets of Tegucigalpa with a laptop is the surest way
>>> of being mugged, we tally the children with a paper form and a digital pen.
>>> We go back to the point of care, download data into a CSV file, upload the
>>> file in a local data repository which we would like to build according to
>>> OpenMRS data model. We use QlikView to provide immediate synthesis /
>>> analysis of data to local social workers.
>>> 
>>> So the question are:
>>> 
>>>  Is this a viable option? Keeping the full fledged data structure in the
>>>  database engine, yet feeding it only with data related to operation at
>>>  hand?
>>>  If yes, who has experience rolling out OpenMRS that way?
>>>  If your anser is Yes to question 2, are you going to Kigali? We would
>>>  love to go, but our budget is tight so we need a compelling reason.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cordialement / Best regards / Freundliche Grüsse
>>> 
>>> Thang Dao
>>> Directeur Systèmes d'Information - Médecins sans Frontières (Suisse)
>>> Information Systems Director - Doctors without Borders (Switzerland)
>>> Informationssystem Leiter - Aertze ohne Grenzen (Schweiz)
>>> Rue de Lausanne, 78
>>> 1211 Genève 21
>>> 
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