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Product Roadmap

Product Roadmap

Owned by Grace Potma
Last updated: Jan 24, 2025
3 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. 📋 Feature-rich EMR for Outpatient management.

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

  3. 📊 Sample Reports & some Clinician-friendly Data Viz

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

  5. ✅ 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.

🧑‍⚖️ Ready for eHealth Leadership. (Scaleable)

  1. 🏛️ Aligned with Government eHealth Leaders' initiatives (eg HIE, UHC, charge-capture)

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

  3. 🔒 Invest in Security. (Secure)

  4. 🔥 Invest in Standards, like FHIR.

🤝 We Build Together. More ready & responsive than ever. (Sustainable)

  1. Squads. Work mainly happens through Squads, with Global Support Team support as-needed.

  2. 📖 Docs, 🎓 Academy. Documentation is mission-critical to working together and growing our community.

  3. Vibrant Community: Events and local networks. In-person and virtual connection opportunities. Build local/regional communities.

  4. Dedicated Mentorship Time. We mentor change agents.

Flexible Content for Whole-Patient care. (Scaleable)

  1. 🩺 Ready-to-Go Content.

  2. ✏️ Non-Dev Friendly Content tooling. Form building, clinical terminology management, content sharing. Increase what can be done where there’s not as much dev support available.

  3. 🛑 Decision Support that optimizes for pt safety.

  4. 🈶 In Many Languages. Scale through Translation, a translator community.

Product Roadmap

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About: This is a dynamic space, open to feedback; a 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: om.rs/product

Contact: Have an interesting initiative you want to see on the Community Product Roadmap? Contact Director of Product @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 from 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)  

To use the Roadmap interactively: Go to om.rs/roadmapboard or click the button below: (requires community member login)

https://openmrs.atlassian.net/jira/polaris/projects/OMRS/ideas/view/3970980

Timeline estimates: (e.g. Q1/Q2/H1/H2 etc) are subject to dynamically changing resources in our opensource community. They refer to a calendar year timeline (eg Q1 ends and Q2 starts when April begins, etc).

Product strategy: Adopted from Gibson Biddle’s DHM Model. Sustainable, Stable, Scaleable, and Secure are our main themes; however, good product strategy answers the question, “How will your product delight users & community members, in hard-to-copy, sustainability-enhancing ways?”

 

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