2016-02-25 Developers Forum

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Last updated: Aug 15, 2016
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Agenda

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  • Project Buendia Update

  • DHIS2 Report Module Update

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Minutes

OpenMRS Developers Forum 2016-02-25

Recording: https://goo.gl/d3W9Va

 

Attendees

  • Burke Mamlin

  • Michael Downey

  • Srimaurya Kummamuru

  • Fabian Tamp

  • tchuenkam ulrich

  • Tim N

  • Achinta Roy

  • Shashank Motepalli

  • Daniel Kayiwa

  • Wyclif Luyima

  • James deGraft-Johnson

  • Vinay Venu

  • Rafał Korytkowski

  • Jamie Thomas

  • Dan Cunningham

  • Vishnu Rao

  • Darius Jazayeri

 

Agenda/Notes

 

Update on Project Buendia <https://projectbuendia.org/>

 

  • EMRE (electronic medical records for emergencies)

  • Tablet app, form-based app, using OpenJDK

  • Coming to close following pilot

 

  • Trip to Chad (Jan 2016)

  • SME in pediatric nutrition

  • 5th year of MSF mission (several years into nutrition crisis)

  • 3 teams w/ 8 staff each visiting one site daily

  • Takeaways

  • Lots of work on stability (some bogus bugs found in the field, nearly all fixed)

  • 8 tablets on a server eventually – after a few hours – overwhelmed the server

  • Health checks were taking 10-15% of traffic (cpu?)

  • Resource-constrained server

  • >6000 obs/24 hours starts to stress the architecture

  • Need to make things very simple

  • For example, green for go & red for stop isn't universally understood

  • Filling in forms is distracting to care

  • May have been exagerated b/c technology was new

  • Logistics are critical in an emergency environment

  • Cannot assume all tablets are always connected

  • e.g., tablets secured overnight, when returned in morning suddenly overwhelm the server

  • Charging tablets

  • Rolling over to tablets from paper

  • Security risk (a fair amount of expensive equipment brought it all at once)

  • Lots of enthusiasm

  • Short-term projects & projects developed during an emergency can be limiting (e.g., need more testing, code clean-up, following conventions, etc.)

  • Formal evaluation process was very informative & helpful

  • Formally evaluating human factors (having someone independent from the project)

  • Formal evaluation is pending

  • Future Work

  • Paying down technical debt

  • Finish formal evaluation

  • Questions (add your questions here)

  • Is there a demo site for EMRE?

  • How long could a tablet run (on battery) with screen off? Could a tablet function as a server?

  • Haven't tried running OpenMRS on a tablet

  • Did you observe care before designing system?

  • 2nd trip to Chad, so, yes, team had observed care previously

  • Did some mock environment testing and then did some early observations on site

 

DHIS2 Report Module Update

  • "DHIS 2 is the preferred health management information system in 47 countries and 23 organizations across four continents. DHIS 2 helps governments and health organizations to manage their operations more effectively, monitor processes and improve communication."

  • Configuration on OpenMRS side

  • Location Attribute

  • Input Report XML

  • DHIS2 server/user/password

  • Export Formats of the reports

  • dxf2

  • ADX

  • Rest API - Know Reports/Locations/Run Reports

  • Teams interested to work with us - Kenya,Ghana, Thoughtworks

  • Reporting Module and ADX Disaggregation

  • GSOC - DHIS2 Web API

 

Transcripts

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