An Opinionated Approach to OpenMRS Concept Management
One of the key strengths of the OpenMRS platform is the concept dictionary, which allows for the mapping of real world health care data needs into concepts that provide the questions and answers.
One of the key strengths of the OpenMRS platform is the concept dictionary, which allows for the mapping of real world health care data needs into concepts that provide the questions and answers.
This is my opinionated guide to OpenMRS (http://openmrs.org) customization for multiple sites, may work for a single site if developer resources are available. This guide is based on 3 years working with the UgandaEMR distribution (https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/UgandaEMR+Distribution) for the Ministry of Health of Uganda, currently in 650 sites across the country (December 2017).
This article was originally published on the METS website at http://mets.or.ug/ugandaemr-bootcamp-2017/ with photos courtesy of Nancy Karunganwa (https://twitter.com/Kanandra26)
Update November 2018: This blog post has been superseded by the OpenMRS SDK (https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/OpenMRS+SDK)