What is OpenMRS?
OpenMRS is an open source electronic medical record system (EMR) system, designed for use in the developing world and first established . Since its beginning in 2004. Today, the system has evolved into a medical informatics platform used on every continent, supporting health care delivery and research in an extremely wide variety of contexts. More information can be found onSee also:
- The about page (mandatory reading).
- Brief textual guide to OpenMRS (very good for context).
- 16-minute introductory screencast.
- 50-minute tech talk video (2007).
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OpenMRS has a modular architecture which allows functionality to be easily added to or removed from the system. We are developing the concept proposal module, which is well explained on its project page.
How can I help?
Sign up at Meetup and join us for the hack night next Tuesday! We need project humans mostly – project managers, developers, translators, QAs, BAs, XDs...
Sign up at Meetup and join us next Tuesday!
If you are familiar with Git and Vagrant, please have a go at you might like to try setting up the development VM. If you run into difficulties, please contact rdoherty@thoughtworks.comnot, we will gladly help you at the hack night.