CODING TO SAVE LIVES
Our Story:Today, MORE THAN 40 million people in DEVELOPING COUNTRIES are infected with diseases like:
Malaria, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and HIV
What We Do OpenMRS provides an open source application to help provide health care to countries in need.
Who are we? OpenMRS is◦A global community◦Volunteers◦People working together to save lives
Our Goals Easier patient and health professional interactionImprove the health of citizens
What can you do?As part of the OpenMRS community you can◦Develop◦Test◦Document◦Translate
How Does This Happen? Information is easily summarised and analysed Reduced need for custom programming
Technology OpenMRS utilises an Java-based web application.◦Runs in◦Small clients◦Large servers
It is easily customizable to preferences. .
Technology in Detail Built on MySQL database Data model◦Concept dictionary is easily accessible
Atlas module◦Map with information on OpenMRS
How to get involved◦Joining the OpenMRS mailing list
◦Joining the internet relay chat (IRC)
◦Contributing ideas and queries to OpenMRS talk
Further information OpenMRS talk: https://talk.openmrs.org/ Wiki page: https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Home JIRA: https://issues.openmrs.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa Demo Server: http://openmrs.org/demo/ Website: www.openmrs.org