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2017-03-30 Developers Forum

2017-03-30 Developers Forum

Mar 30, 2017

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Agenda

Minutes

Attendees

  • Matt

  • Maimoona

  • Burke

  • Wyclif

  • Daniel

Agenda

OpenSRP Update

  • Connecting front-line health workers to national health systems.

  • Focused on client-facing applications

  • Bridging the gap between clinical (OpenMRS) and outreach

  • Demo of child immunization application

  • Trying to optimize every interaction

  • Removing forms where possible

  • Have created chat interfaces (e.g., Telegram, SMS, Facebook Messenger)

  • Using a CouchDB database

  • Storing data in a FHIR-like model

  • Do a 2-way sync between OpenSRP and OpenMRS (use Atomfeed module)

  • Using OWA for UI (can call OpenSRP REST endpoints)

  • Server

  • CouchDB

  • Motech + quartz for scheduling

  • CouchDB-Lucene for faster searches

  • OpenMRS and DHIS2 for reporting

  • Mobile client

  • Have integrated with both OpenMRS and Bahmni

  • Created a team management module

  • Allows for hierarchy of teams

  • Keeps track of changes in teams over time

  • Has been really helpful for allowing easier permission management by granting access based on team assignment

  • Created a DHIS location module

  • Enhanced cohort module

  • Created schedule tracking module

  • Described road map

  • Hope to get to a point someone can create a register without having to program in Android

Are there plans to include "dateChanged" as a filter (search parameter) into REST calls?

  • Burke: this is certainly feasible. Not sure if it's on anyone's radar to do.

  • Would need to add at the API level. Wouldn't necessarily need to be all or none (could target a few high priority API methods as an exemplar of how we'd do it for other API methods in the future)

Does OpenMRS have an unattended install (e.g., using Docker)?

  • Burke: I thought we had this

  • Wyclif: I don't think we have this.

  • Daniel: I think we alrady have this.

  • TODO: Need to find (or create) documentation for how to do unattended install

  • Daniel will look into this

Is there an audit module?

  • Wyclif: We created one years ago, but it never reached production level.

  • Burke: I think this was created as a path toward centralizing the audit (changed/updated) attributes.

Questions/Comments

  • Why not use relationships for recording patient-provider relationships?

  • OpenMRS REST service wasn't efficient enough for pulling across teams.

  • Did you consider appointment module for scheduling needs?

  • Needed treatment schedules (e.g., vaccination)

  • Are you using or considering Docker (with Ansible)?

  • Yes. Have a Docker installation. Learning from Bahmni.

  • Does the household register using cohorts?

  • Not yet.

 

Transcripts

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