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2015-09-17 Developers Forum

2015-09-17 Developers Forum

Sep 17, 2015

How to Join

 

Agenda

  • Quickly review previous meeting minutes (5 min)

  • WIP: AMPATH Update (showcase of their new POC system)

  • Review next meeting agenda

Minutes

OpenMRS Developers Forum 2015-09-17

Audio Recording: https://goo.gl/0x2XNQ

Attendees

  • Burke Mamlin

  • Nicky Kibor Kimaina

  • Erick

  • Willa

  • Michael Downey

  • Ali Habib

  • Serghei Luchianov

  • Daniel Kayiwa

  • Wyclif Luyima

  • Ada Yeung

  • Simon Savai

  • Melissa Kornspan

  • Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne

  • Alfayo Kwatuha

  • Allan Kendagor Kimaina

  • Elly Makuba

  • Saptarshi Purkayastha

  • Darius Jazayeri

  • Jonathan Dick

  • Sri Maurya Kummamuru

Agenda/Notes

  • Review last week's TODOs:

  • Topic Fest: TODO's were simply to add the schedule & notify presenters

  • Get Project Buendia slides and post

  • TODO: Begin looking at "Getting started as a developer" page each week in PM call

  • TODO: Create filter(s) for recent curation

  • TODO: Create filter(s) for recently completed priority tickets

  • TODO: Create a page summarizing these metrics (filters)

  • WIP: AMPATH Update – showcasing their new POC system

  • Using Angular, Angular Formly, REST

  • Patient search, Encounter entry for providers, and basic reporting (e.g., upcoming appts and defaulters)

  • Interact with both native OpenMRS application and a custom ETL server (based on node js) to serve data (raw and calculated)

  • Angular-based Forms using Angular Formly library (handles rendering/processing of forms)

  • Pages contain sections contain questions

  • Pages are rendered as tabs

  • Sections are panels/blocks within a page's tab

  • Questions are listed in order

  • Currently using UUIDs, but plan to allow reference term

  • ETL server

  • Nodejs + HAPI (a node library, not Java HL7 API)

  • Scripts running as cron jobs transform OpenMRS data into an ETL db (flat tables)

  • Reporting features are querying the ETL database

  • Duplicating some features in core or done by others

  • Login

  • Routing

  • Form Entry

  • Plan to use something like ionic to make a thicker app to be used offline

  • Questions?

  • How does this interact with OpenMRS?

  • Angular app deployed in Tomcat next to OpenMRS

  • Uses REST to get data

  • How does this compare to JSON forms?

  • JSON forms was created for the pharmacy system and is not still used.

  • Did AMPATH try HTML form entry? Why not use it?

  • Focusing on building an app that would run on mobile devices (especially tablets used by providers) as easily as desktops.

  • Have you found REST services adequate?

  • ~90% was working

  • Had to do some fixes to RESTWS module

  • After Action Review

  • What did we expect to happen?

  • What actually happened?

  • What can we do better?

  • Next week:

  • Overview of what OMRS support and does not support

  • RefApp 2.3 review

 

Transcripts

  • Audio recording of the call: Listen online or download (available after the meeting)