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Summary
This is a page to collect notes about migrating data from existing EMRs to OpenMRS. Please add your own experiences and ideas. When we have enough material, we can turn this into a more formal guide.
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You can write software scripts that use the OpenMRS API or web services.
Migration Steps
A migration includes these steps, in any order. Most likely you will iterate through the steps several times as your OpenMRS implementation takes shape.
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Outline of next sections:
Providers
Bare minimum to create a Person is a gender
If Outpatient table lists the provider, make one provider for each name
If not, create a "Staff" person - maybe one per ward (Outpatient Staff, ICU Staff)
Patient Info
Bare minimum to create a Patient is an identifier and a gender
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If your database is very normalized, you have to put the pieces together again before import. Ex: the BloodTypeLab table uses a foreign key on the BloodTypeConstants table (A neg, B pos, etc) . When you run the import script, the obs needs to say "A neg", and not the ID number of the row in BloodTypeConstants.