- 1. OpenMRSDevelopers and Implementers Meeting Boston Hamish SF
Fraser Partners In Health Division of Global Health Equity, BWH
Harvard Medical School
2. Welcome 3. Agenda 9.30coffee/tea 10.00 Introduction Hamish
Fraser 10.15 What is OpenMRSBurke Mamlin Examples in the field
10.45 AMPATH, Kenya, including on home based care Burke Mamlin
11.00 Rwinkwavu, Rwanda, includingsupport for clinical care, and
synchronization between sites Hamish Fraser 11.15 South
Africa/Zimbabwe/Mozambiqueand OASIS Chris Seebregts 11.30
Millennium Villages Project, includingvocabulary management and
internationalization Andrew Kanter Features of OpenMRS 11.45
Research data management , Web forms, disease surveillance, use of
OpenMRS in the US Darius Jazayeri 12.00 The OpenMRS VisionHamish
Fraser 12.15 Panel discussion and Q&A Fraser, Mamlin,Seebregts,
Kanter 4. Agenda - afternoon 1pm: Lunch, cafeteria, New Research
Building (not included) 1pm: Lunch, cafeteria, New Research
Building (not included) 2.00 Breakout sessionsPreliminary titles,
OpenMRS deployment in the field Others may beOpenMRS API and module
development proposed byStandards, integration of OpenMRS,
including, DHIS audience OpenMRS use in the US Reporting and data
export 3.30Break,coffee, tea 4.00 pm Report from breakouts, wrap up
4.45 Close 5. Faculty
- Dr Hamish Fraser , Co-founder OpenMRS collaborative,Director of
Informatics and Telemedicine Partners In Health,
AssistantProfessorHarvard Medical School
- Dr Burke Mamlin , Co-founder OpenMRS collaborative, Developer
of initial design for OpenMRS, Research Scientist, Regenstrief
Institute, Indiana University
- Dr Christopher Seebregts , Co-Founder OpenMRS Collaborative
Senior Manger in Biomedical Informatics, South African Medical
Research Council andDirector of the Postgraduate Program in
Biomedical Informatics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
- Darius Jazayeri , Co-designer of OpenMRS Lead software
developer, Partners In Health
- Ben Wolfe , Co-designer of OpenMRS Lead Software Developer,
Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University
- Justin Miranda , OpenMRSdeveloper
- Dr Andrew Kanter,Asst. Prof. of Clinical Biomedical Informatics
and Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia University and Director of
Health Information Systems/Medical Informatics for the Millennium
Villages Project, Earth Institute, Columbia University
- Mike Seaton , Developer, OpenMRS and Partners In Health
- Evan Waters , EMR team lead, Partners In Health, Neno,
Malawi
6. Breakout session sign-up
- Please sign up for breakout sessions on the white boards or
suggest different titles. We will discuss the breakout plans in the
panel session.
- We plan a split between developers and implementor topics
7. Software in the Public Interest Prize
- was the 2009 recipient of theAntonio PizzigatiPrize for
Software in the Public Interest.
- Awarded for his 8 years developing open source medical
information systems for developing countries
- Prize money funded this meeting
8. Motivation for the meeting
- Rapid expansion of OpenMRS, now in more than 15 countries
- Unprecedented interest in medical information systems for
global health
- Stimulus bill and interest in all things EMR
- We need to grow the organization and better understand the
needs of healthcare professionals and developers
- Evolution of the role of open source software in
healthcare
9. 10. OpenMRS sites - fall 2008 11. Goals
- To inform people in the US especially Boston area about
OpenMRS
- To engage people in discussions around the needs for EMR
systems in resource poor environments
- To foster the community of developers and users of OpenMRS
- To encourage new collaborations