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Morning

• Breakfast

• Introductions

• Welcome by Carl Fourie

• Mozambique OASIS team gave an overview of what they were looking for from the conference

OpenMRS Roadmap Overview by Justin Miranda

• Method of input into the roadmap has evolved

  • Conference calls every thursday

  • Would like to get more input from implementers

• Went through the Road map page and discussed some of the planned features

HTML Forms Demo by Darius Jazayeri

• Showed how to create an html

• Demo'd some of the new features in the latest version

• See the module homepage

XForms Demo by Daniel

• Form Entry which has an advanced GWT Designer and supports mobile phone form entry

• Wow!

• See the XForms module page

Overview of DHIS and SDMX-HD by Bob Jolliffe

• Introduction and history

• Expressed reservations about SDMX-HD

• What they have is simple and field tested, but could be improved

• Technical discussion between Darius, Bob and Ryan with an example of the DHIS data format (DXF)

  • Data value has a data element with which it is associated (data element number is unique only within the file)

  • They'd like to use more attributes rather than child elements

• Some time was spent trying to determine if what the reporting module is doing, is what is required by Bob and DHIS

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• Ryan discussed some issues regarding SDMX-HD (some details can be found here)

Afternoon

Lab System Integration Overview

• Ryan gave a short overview

• The BIKA guys gave a short history and introduction

• Some time was spent discussing what data needs to be transferred between OpenMRS and the BIKA LIMS

• Darius suggested basing the dataset on LOINC

• Technical discussion about sample and test identification and processing state management

• Mike gave a demo of the PIH Lab Entry System module (There is no wiki page, but some versions can be found here)

Labs JAD Session

Braai

• Braai