WorkingGroups


Introduction

This page coordinates efforts between the many interested groups in the OpenMRS universe. The idea is to identify informal "Working Groups" for each area of development (programming, not organizational or geographic), providing the opportunity for everyone to get some idea what everyone else is doing. Participation is of course not mandatory, but simply encouraged. This is loose, community driven project management.

Working groups are not mutually exclusive. It's ok for their concerns to overlap. Similarly, categorization isn't definitive, but suggestive. The scope and duration of a working group can be broad and long or narrow and short -- if you feel motivated to inform others about some activity that doesn't otherwise have visibility, add it here.

What's important here is that a Working Group is driven by the activity of its members. It is a simple way to recognize and identify common interest. A working group doesn't dictate what people should do, it expresses what people are doing (it is descriptive rather than definitive).

So, if you want to get involved with the OpenMRS community this is the place to start. Take a look at what is going on, think about what you'd like to do, talk to the people working in that area, and just start playing along.

Working Groups

click on the working group title for the working group's home page

BIRT Reporting

Eclipse BIRT


Data Entry

Form entry, mobile data entry

Data Model

Data model and related implementations (db schema, class definitions) which are central to the entire application.

Data Transfer

Synchronization, correlation, aggregation, authorization, identification & de-identification of patient data

Data Warehouse

Data warehouse, ETL, Pentaho, OLAP


Decision Support

Improving decision support within OpenMRS

Documentation

Adding documentation to the wiki

i18n

Internationalization and localization issues.

Lab

Focus on building and integrating with Lab systems

Mentoring

Supporting and encouraging mentoring of new OpenMRS developers

Mobile and Wireless Technologies

Mobile and wireless technologies for OpenMRS

OpenMRS-OpenEHR Archetypes

Introducing OpenEHR

OpenMRS Concept Cooperative (OCC)

Resource for sharing and aggregating dictionary concepts between electronic medical record systems.

Reporting

Reporting frameworks and report generation

To join the group, go to the group webpage above and click on 'Join this group'. If you have any issues getting started, send me an email (Justin Miranda).

Standards

Working on meeting standards needs

  • Members: Shaheen Khotu, Chris Seebregts, Ercilia, Shabani Cishahayo

eHealth

Applying and integrating telemedicine technologies with OpenMRS

  • Members: Ghislain, Adesina, Kurt Brauchli

End-User Interface

Redesigning OpenMRS's user interface to be easiest for the end-user

Visualization

3-D, graphs, and other visualizations of medical data

Working Groups

Help and general support for other working groups. Got questions about any of this? Ask us.