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Release Notes 3.8.0 DRAFT IDEAS

Release Notes 3.8.0 DRAFT IDEAS

[ 1 🔦 Key Points ] [ 2 👷 Contributors ] [ 3 🔦 Highlights for Implementers ] [ 4 📸 Example Visual Changes ] [ 5 🔍 Detailed Changelog ]

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🔦 Key Points

  • 📆 Cut Date: 2025-____

  • 📆 Release Date: 2025-____

  • Release Manager: ______

  • Key Features:

    • Chart Search AI Feature

      • Interate, incorporate feedback from the community

      • Audit logging for every AI-generated suggestion accepted or rejected by clinicians

    • Growth Chart

    • Security Improvements

      • Continuation

    • Billing Features (Continuation)

      • Auto-generation of bills from procedure orders (extending the drug + lab pattern)

      • Epic:

    • Notification feature

    • Duplicates Prevention

      • PIH & DRC are interested. PIH to contribute towards the requirements.

    • Drugs Administration

      • A priority for PIH, and they are already documenting the requirements.

    • Program Enrolment

      • PIH drafted some requirements & @Dennis Kigen has picked this task

    • Print ID Card at Registration

      • PIH is interested and is a priority - Dave to follow up with Mike.

    • Draw on Image (eg Body Diagram)

      • ICRC is interested - they have image annotation in 02, but would like this for 03 (this has prevented them from moving to O3)

    • Make the installation of OpenMRS Simpler

      • James Kariuki (CDC)

        • Beyond these current options: Using Docker and Docker Compose, OpenMRS SDK, and Standalone Installation

    • Diagnosis and Conditions

      • PIH Interested - not a priority

      • Whether Diagnosis and Condition need separate concept classes?

      • Distinction between Diagnosis (encounter-bound) and Condition (longitudinal)?

      • Promotion from Diagnosis to Condition with clinician confirmation

    • Medications App

    • Drug Order Sets MVP

    • Beautiful + Configurable Login Page

  • ⚠️ Breaking Changes:

    1. _______

  • Where to find it: Demo at o3.openmrs.org (admin/Admin123) or download here: openmrs.org/download/

👷 Contributors

Special thanks to the following community PR reviewers:

DIGI: @Ian Bacher
OpenMRS: @Dennis Kigen, @Jayasanka Weerasinghe, @nethmi, …
PIH:
Palladium:
METS:
MSF Madiro:

Template note: Reach out to @beryl; she will be the primary builder of this list.

Thank you so much to the following contributors - you make releases like this possible! Alphabetically by Organization affiliation:

  • CSaude:

  • Health IT (UoN):

  • ICRC:

  • Intellisoft:

  • Madiro:

  • Mekom:

  • METS:

  • OpenMRS Support:

  • Palladium-Kenya:

  • PIH:

  • UCSF:

  • UW ITECH DIGI:

  • Independent Contributors:

Thank you Translation Contributors!

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Contributor Metrics

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Breakdown of contributors by Organizations, based on # of PRs committed in this release. (Source)

# PRs included: ___

# of Orgs involved: ___

% from OpenMRS Inc. Global Support: ___%

🔦 Highlights for Implementers

Change: Brief description.

 

Change: Brief description.

 

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📸 Example Visual Changes

 

 

🔍 Detailed Changelog

Code:

Distro RefApp

  • Reference Application 3.5.0 (<-- needs hyperlink like this)

Frontend Modules

Backend Modules

Tickets:

Platform Tickets: https://openmrs.atlassian.net/projects/O3?selectedItem=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin%3Arelease-page