The goal of this project is to write up several success stories that will help show the growth of the OpenMRS community and community’s product in 2024, and showcase how those community members made those things possible - i.e. each story should have a compelling What, Who, and How.
Status | Idea/Theme | Priority | What | Who | Consent? | Notes / Info to get started | Draft Link |
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DONE - PUBLISHED | O3: The New OpenMRS Explained and the Investments that made it possible | Highest | Pull together information about the origin and technology of O3. Opportunity to showcase how this is a result of coordinated community investment, direct support from implementers. Mention the TAP mechanism. | N/A | Use info from:
Let’s start there and see what you can make | ||
DONE - PUBLISHED | A Visual History of OpenMRS | High | Use https://openmrs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/projects/pages/26938255/Designer+Onboarding+to+OpenMRS+3#Visual-History-of-the-OpenMRS-Frontend and your previous work that got removed from the first article to make this one | ||||
DONE - PUBLISHED | "The Technology behind OpenMRS version 3" | Take the technical parts we had to cut out from the original O3 article and put in this one It would be awesome if we could highlight this single-spa video since it does such a nice job of explaining the plug-and-play architecture: https://youtu.be/L4jqow7NTVg |
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ALMOST PUBLISHED | KenyaEMR O3 success story: How KenyaEMR leveraged and innovated with the new OpenMRS | High | Show before vs after Explain exactly what steps they took (so others can follow them) Interview team members, ideally quotes from both a non-tech and dev about O3 | Palladium-Kenya | Consent granted by Palladium | ||
ALMOST PUBLISHED | UgandaEMR+ O3 success story: UgandaEMR’s journey with OpenMRS 3 | High | Same idea as KenyaEMR story | METS | Consent granted by METS | ||
NOT STARTED | How investments are making OpenMRS more flexible than ever with the new Distro HIS project | High | Several goals:
| Mekom UCSF | Yes, UCSF agreed ++ |
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NOT STARTED | How the new OpenMRS supports UHC, billing, and insurance | High | Show and explain the new Billing app. Explain the reason for this vs a full ERP. Explain how it was created in the squad model | Palladium-Kenya UCSF | Permission granted | Confirmed w/ UCSF Key Contact: Please use Gilbert Muthee (UCSF) , and then Antony Ojwang &Keziah Muiruri (Palladium) Please see this post that summarized the work of the billing app to date: https://talk.openmrs.org/t/updates-from-the-billing-squad-progress-achievements-and-future-plans/43073 Screenshots are needed; these can be sourced from both Gilbert and from a recently recorded KenyaEMR demo (request from Grace) | |
NOT STARTED | How we created our first OpenMRS Online Academy with virtual courses | Medium | Introduce the New OpenMRS online Academy. Share numbers about how many people have registered, certificates issued. How we used synchronous course time to create materials and structure, then converted into digital. Way of scaling personal touch. | Key contact: Grace | |||
NOT DISCUSSED | ICAP-Ethiopia’s O3 journey: From Smartcare to OpenMRS | High | ICAP-ETH | Need to get consent | |||
NOT DISCUSSED | Scaling the new OpenMRS for NCD: Mekom’s journey with OpenMRS 3 in Cambodia | High | Show and explain OpenMRS useage by Mekom in Cambodia; used for NCD; translated in Khmer; rolled out to >100 sites | Mekom | Not yet | ||
NOT DISCUSSED | OpenMRS in a Moodle: How one NGO is helping International Medical Graduates learn EMRs with OpenMRS | Medium | Show how OpenMRS can be embedded in an iFrame, as part of a Moodle. Reference code guidance for iframing. Interview Faimer team for quotes. | Faimer | Not Yet | We have a lightning talk presentation that would be perfect for supporting this write up, and as media for the article. I will have to dig to find it. |
