What is OpenMRS?Burke Mamlin, MD

What we saw…

Reporting-driven

Top down

Vertical systems

Acute care

Proprietary and predatory

Free Text, lack of standards

Silos

Flat Model

Patient Pulse Weight

John Doe 80 120

Flat Model

Patient Pulse WeightCD4

Count

John Doe 80 120 400

Flat Model

Patient Pulse

Weight

CD4 Count

John Doe 80 120 400

Concept Dictionary

Concept Units

Pulse bpm

Weight lbs

Stacked Model

Patient Observation Value

John Doe Pulse 80

John Doe Weight 120

Concept Units

Pulse bpm

Weight lbs

Concept Dictionary

Concept Units

Pulse bpm

Weight lbs

CD4 Count cell/mm3

Patient Observation Value

John Doe Pulse 80

John Doe Weight 120

Stacked Model

Patient Observation Value

John Doe Pulse 80

John Doe Weight 120

John Doe CD4 Count 400

Toward a Common Infrastructure

Data

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Data

Toward a Common Infrastructure

Data

Data

Data

Data

Data

Toward a Common Infrastructure

Data

Data

Data

Data

DataAPI

Toward a Common Infrastructure

Data

Data

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Data

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OpenMRS

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

http://openmrs.org