Product Roadmap

Owned by Grace Potma
Last updated: Nov 20, 2024
13 min read

Vision

Strategy Themes - and the 4S’s (Stable, Scaleable, Sustainable, and Secure)

Better Care through Better Information.

Stronger digital health ecosystems in countries.

Improve healthcare for millions of people in challenging environments around the world, by empowering Healthcare Workers with the tools they need out-of-the-box.

🎁 Ready for Implementers to scale their work. (Stable)

  1. πŸ“‹ Feature-rich EMR for Outpatient management.

  2. πŸƒ Easier deployment. Set-up wizard to get you started; tooling to make life easier when you scale.

  3. πŸ“Š Sample Reports & some Clinician-friendly Data Viz

  4. πŸ₯ Facility-Wide. Growing into Inpatient care. Prioritizing integrations with non-EMR care areas, like Labs, Pharmacy, Inventory, and Billing/Insurance.

  5. βœ… Tested, Trusted Releases. Rapidly see your bug-fixes & new features in global releases. Mandatory test coverage; test automation in PRs and pipelines; regular release cadence with clear notes and stable versions #'s.

πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ Ready for eHealth Leadership. (Scaleable)

  1. πŸ›οΈ Aligned with Government eHealth Leaders' initiatives (eg HIE, UHC, charge-capture)

  2. ☁️ Cloud-Friendly. Without leaving last-mile sites behind.

  3. πŸ”’ Invest in Security. (Secure)

  4. πŸ”₯ Invest in Standards, like FHIR.

Product Roadmap

About: This is aΒ dynamic space, open to feedback; aΒ home-base where anyone, especially day-to-day Implementers interested in the OMRS roadmap, can see at a glance some key initiatives going on around our community: what's happening, who's putting resources in, what needs more support, and where there are specific opportunities to join.

Subscribe to Updates: To follow new Roadmap additions or changes, subscribe to this page. Short Link to this page:Β om.rs/product

Contact: Have an interesting initiative you want to see on the Community Product Roadmap? Contact Director of ProductΒ @Grace Potma at: grace@openmrs.org and/or Community Coordinator @beryl at: beryl@openmrs.org. We'd love to hear about your priorities and current focus areas!

Criteria: How items get on this Community Roadmap

All of these items are:

  • being conducted in a public community process, with involvement & investment fromΒ 2+ Organizations

  • being shared with /omrs/5 facilitators, and are receiving some degree of dedicated support from OpenMRS Inc

  • likely to provide wide community value (i.e. fit under the definition of "Shared Assets" for community)Β Β 

Done

Recently completed (<1yr)

Now

Actively being worked on, in-progress

Β Next

Emerging as strong community priorities

❄️ Icebox

Ideas and needs with no active work or engagement yet

Done

Recently completed (<1yr)

Now

Actively being worked on, in-progress

Β Next

Emerging as strong community priorities

❄️ Icebox

Ideas and needs with no active work or engagement yet

Wiki

OMRS Inc

  • Created Release QA Team, for careful manual review of EMR before every release

  • Protocol here

OpenMRS Inc PIH Palladium Intellisoft Mekom Volunteers

  • The latest version of the O3 EMR loads faster on low-resource devices

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