Reference Application Road Map

Obsolete

This page has become obsolete. See the Detailed Technical Roadmap for current information.

Vision

Our current goal is to get a decent starter feature set into the OpenMRS Reference EMR and have it tested and packaged into a new standalone in time for the 2013 OpenMRS Implementers Conference in October 2013.

Reference Implementations

Before we consider a feature to be complete, we believe it should be tested in production in a real-life OpenMRS implementation. That would be the "reference implementation" for the feature in question. It would provide feedback about the specific requirements and user experience of the feature, and help define the feature's future needs.

The tables below indicate both the status of coding up a feature in the RefApp codebase, as well as whether we've identified a reference implementation for that feature, and its status there.

(At present, Mirebalais plays an out-sized role here, but the goal is to have different reference implementations for different features. We still need to define a process around this.)

OpenMRS 2.1

Feature

Description

Status

Reference Implementation

Feature

Description

Status

Reference Implementation

Allergy List

Manage & view patient allergies (e.g., on the patient dashboard)

in development (90%)

 

Static Demo Data

Faster and predictable demo data

In Development (90%)

 

Form Entry

Support for incorporating implementation-specific forms using HTML Form Entry and XForms

Done

 

Future Features

Feature

Description

Status

Reference Implementation

Feature

Description

Status

Reference Implementation

Reporting

Demonstrates the reporting framework by allowing you view a report containing some summary statistics for your system.

not done

done

Implemented in Mirebalais with PIH-specific code. Needs to be ported to RefApp codebase

CIEL Dictionary

Including CIEL dictionary (or most of it) out of the box

not done

 

Account Manager

Manage your users & providers, including roles & privileges, disable accounts, etc.

in development

done

Implemented in Mirebalais. Needs design review and porting to RefApp codebase

Improvements to Permissions

Avoid giving all API privileges to users

NOT DONE

 

Retrospective data entry

Basic support for retrospective data entry within the Reference Application

not done



not done

Ad Hoc Analysis tool (v1)

 

 In Progress

 

Problem List

Manage & view patient problems (e.g., on the patient dashboard and integrated with diagnosis capture)

not done

not done

Anonymous Patients

Support for unnamed John Doe patients

not done

done

Implemented in Mirebalais. Needs to be ported to RefApp codebase

Clinician Facing Patient Dashboard (v2)

Patient summary and dashboard designed for doctors and nurses

not done

not done

Merge Patients

Merge duplicate patient records into one.

not done

done

Implemented in Mirebalais. Needs to be ported to RefApp codebase

Test Patients

Support for tagging & recognizing test/fake patients, so they can be ignored within reports.

not done

done

Implemented in Mirebalais. Needs to be ported to RefApp codebase

Patient Lookup (v2)

Search for a patient by name or ID

not done

not done

Additional Administrative Functions

Concept Management, Manage Locations, App Manager, ...

not done

not done

Simple Dispensing

A form to record medication dispensing events within the patient record

in design in progress

not done

Registration (v2)

Add new patients to the system

not done

not done

Decision Support (v1)

The first trivial example of providing decision-support feedback (includes significant design and back-end discussions)

 

 

Clinical Encounter

Record the entire clinical transaction piece-by-piece as part of a Session, as opposed to via a Form.

 

 

Patient Lists

e.g. "My Patients", "Inpatients on Service XYZ", etc. (Related to RA-202.)

 

 

Program Enrollments

v1: capturing this data; v2: drive available forms/actions based on program state

 

 

Easy Chart Review / Flowsheets

Reviewing the patient's whole electronic record for data points of interest (also has been called "Chart Search")

 

 

See also