Success Stories 2024

The goal of this project is to write up several success stories that will help show the growth of the OpenMRS community and community’s product in 2024, and showcase how those community members made those things possible - i.e. each story should have a compelling What, Who, and How.

Status	Idea/Theme	Priority	What	Who	Consent?	Notes / Info to get started	Draft Link

Status	Idea/Theme	Priority	What	Who	Consent?	Notes / Info to get started	Draft Link
Done - Published	O3: The New OpenMRS Explained and the Investments that made it possible	Highest	Pull together information about the origin and technology of O3. Opportunity to showcase how this is a result of coordinated community investment, direct support from implementers. Mention the TAP mechanism.		N/A	Use info from: Visual history of OMRS O3 onboarding course O3 Dev intro (just the intro) Let’s start there and see what you can make	https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qU-pAKvxOTVuB-cN4G58OnMHyCGyEt9x9dtv3LtQCbI/edit#heading=h.g3qmsj83le9a
Done - Published	A Visual History of OpenMRS	High	Use Designer Onboarding to OpenMRS 3 \| Visual History of the OpenMRS Frontend and your previous work that got removed from the first article to make this one
Done - Published	"The Technology behind OpenMRS version 3"		Take the technical parts we had to cut out from the original O3 article and put in this one It would be awesome if we could highlight this single-spa video since it does such a nice job of explaining the plug-and-play architecture: https://youtu.be/L4jqow7NTVg
Almost Published	KenyaEMR O3 success story: How KenyaEMR leveraged and innovated with the new OpenMRS	High	Show before vs after Explain exactly what steps they took (so others can follow them) Interview team members, ideally quotes from both a non-tech and dev about O3	Palladium-Kenya	Consent granted by Palladium	https://youtu.be/PkLnxMCM6PQ?feature=shared https://talk.openmrs.org/t/hackathon-kenyaemr-forms-migration-from-html-to-json-using-the-3-x-form-builder-13th-17th-june-2022/36878	https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IOaShrl2YAXYfGBhZPeuVv9U11ZK_rrsIaZZJSvRPlo/edit
Almost Published	UgandaEMR+ O3 success story: UgandaEMR’s journey with OpenMRS 3	High	Same idea as KenyaEMR story	METS	Consent granted by METS	https://youtu.be/zZHCYY7fMJw?feature=shared https://talk.openmrs.org/t/national-wide-rollout-of-ugandaemrplus-o3-distro-in-uganda/42154 https://talk.openmrs.org/t/o3-mets-ugandaemr-hackathon-in-jinja-uganda-may-2022/36888	https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mM6VLaYq50POC82cCrRHGnoTHj6yGx821QBJVAtrWaQ/edit#heading=h.pfkzphbrepm
Almost Published	How investments are making OpenMRS more flexible than ever with the new Distro HIS project	High	Several goals: Awareness: Ensure it’s clear community implementation members have been moving forward with building out full HIS (Health Information System) components within the TAP Grant + Squad model, led by UCSF & Mekom Understanding: There should be both simple and then slightly technical explanations of how exactly this distro-his solution is put together. Caution: If we can clearly explain how to draw the lines between Lite vs Not-Lite-Anymore (maybe this is a separate article)	Mekom UCSF	Yes, UCSF agreed ++	Key Contacts: @Gilbert Muthee @Romain Buisson @Dimitri R HIS Components visual/picture: HIS Distro Components visual https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tdfVdFyBNhqoufWSKjk3zQCMgzJQkTy_nLAmGhgPnWM/edit#slide=id.p https://www.ozone-his.com/about/ https://talk.openmrs.org/t/integrating-openmrs-offering-a-practical-pathway-to-implementers/42840 Some earlier drafted thoughts to try and communicate the difference between “Lite/Light-weight” and “Out of Scope” (that I never actually published) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pj4l_Gz1625WHZhwH_9Psj6UUIpnfO00kKwgr18opvU/edit There are some little pictures in here that you may find helpful!	https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OmNMKyf2dwb78suR0joW1DuxVEXt1BpEJGpaoG9pWeE/edit#heading=h.td2w7lnvpgl5
Not Started	How the new OpenMRS supports UHC, billing, and insurance	High	Show and explain the new Billing app. Explain the reason for this vs a full ERP. Explain how it was created in the squad model	Palladium-Kenya UCSF	Permission granted	Confirmed w/ UCSF Key Contact: Please use @Gilbert Muthee (UCSF) , and then @Antony Ojwang &@Keziah Muiruri (Palladium) Please see this post that summarized the work of the billing app to date: https://talk.openmrs.org/t/updates-from-the-billing-squad-progress-achievements-and-future-plans/43073 Screenshots are needed; these can be sourced from both Gilbert and from a recently recorded KenyaEMR demo (request from Grace)
Not Started	How we created our first OpenMRS Online Academy with virtual courses	Medium	Introduce the New OpenMRS online Academy. Share numbers about how many people have registered, certificates issued. How we used synchronous course time to create materials and structure, then converted into digital. Way of scaling personal touch.			Key contact: Grace
Not Discussed	ICAP-Ethiopia’s O3 journey: From Smartcare to OpenMRS	High		ICAP-ETH	Need to get consent
Not Discussed	Scaling the new OpenMRS for NCD: Mekom’s journey with OpenMRS 3 in Cambodia	High	Show and explain OpenMRS useage by Mekom in Cambodia; used for NCD; translated in Khmer; rolled out to >100 sites	Mekom	Not yet
Not Discussed	OpenMRS in a Moodle: How one NGO is helping International Medical Graduates learn EMRs with OpenMRS	Medium	Show how OpenMRS can be embedded in an iFrame, as part of a Moodle. Reference code guidance for iframing. Interview Faimer team for quotes.	Faimer	Not Yet	We have a lightning talk presentation that would be perfect for supporting this write up, and as media for the article. I will have to dig to find it.