What Is OpenMRS (in 3 Min) - with captions

What is OpenMRS(in 3 minutes)?Burke Mamlin, MD

A response to HIV

Limited resources

Existing systems overburdened

HIV is a treatable disease, but treating millions requires information

management.

Silos

Existing efforts in silos

Facing the impossible

Regenstrief & PIH in the same boat: an

open collaboration is born.

Toward a Common Infrastructure

Data

Data

Data

Data

DataDataDataDataAPIAPIAPIAPI

Toward a Common Infrastructure

DataDataDataDataAPIAPIAPIAPI

DataAPI

DataAPI

DataAPI

DataAPI

A platform to be shared

Customizable through modules

Lots of help along the way

A growing community

A fun community!

Many implementation sites

OpenMRS

A web-based EMR…

OpenMRS is…

An Electronic Medical Record System

A data model

An API

An HIV system

A TB system

A Primary Care system

A developer community

An implementer community

… and more.

Multiple uses

http://openmrs.org