Makerere University School of Public Health
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OpenMRS Conference in Uganda Redefines Global Health IT Collaboration
Hundreds of developers and health experts gathered in Uganda this past December to attend the OpenMRS Implementers conference. This event has in many ways redefined the global health IT landscape. This is the first OpenMRS conference that has been officially sponsored by the government of a nation, setting the stage for future conferences that can bring together open source developers and government officials to build national health IT solutions. Read More »
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Uganda: Government Embraces Open Source Electronic Medical Records System
The Ministry of Health has introduced an electronic medical records system to, among other things, track patients' history countrywide. The system targets patients who visit both public and private health facilities around the country. Under the new initiative, an individual's medical information can be electronically shared from one department to another while observing confidentiality. The government has started with HIV/Aids patients, but will later enroll it to all clinical aspects of medicine to boost the referral system...
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OpenMRS 2016 Implementers' Conference
The OpenMRS Implementers meetings began in 2006 as a way to bring members of the community together during a dedicated amount of time to collaborate, share implementation experiences, and find ways to improve OpenMRS. This year’s 2016 event is a blend of topics that include sessions covering traditional OpenMRS implementer as well as overarching OpenMRS topics. These sessions coincide with the planned as well as the unconference sessions. The meeting will provide an opportunity for health care team members, informaticians, developers, implementers, and end users to collaborate and innovate. As a result, developers improve their technical skills in OpenMRS, implementers share best practices from implementations, users and health care team members propose and prioritize their top features for future releases of the software to ensure that their needs are met.