OpenMRS stories:

saving lives with open source

https://www.pih.org/article/iconic-hospital-in-malawi-to-expand

Cintia Del Rio

https://slides.com/cintiadelrio/openmrs-lca/live

About me

DevOps
OpenMRS infrastructure and Release Automation

OpenMRS

Electronic Medical Record System
- Patient data (revisits)

- Decision support

- Comunication between providers

- Scientific studies

https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/visual-journey-how-bahmni-used

Public global health

Cholera

HIV/AIDS

Tuberculosis

Malaria

Ebola

https://www.pih.org/article/new-year-new-maternity-ward-liberia

Inception

            eSaude - Mozambique

Platform

Reference Application

More than 1800 sites using OpenMRS
More than 6.3 million active patients

Rural and Remote areas

https://medium.com/@possible/shades-of-healing-stories-from-dolakha-dab779240941

Challenges

Power

Unreliable or nonexistent energy supply
- Few hours per day
- Long outages (24h+)

Solar power
Laptops

Network

Limited connectivity
- SIM Cards
- Remote networks (RAN)
- Security patches

Offline-first clients
- Tablets
- Smartphones
- SMS

Patient Identification

Identification Card
Photo
Address
Fingerprint/Iris

https://www.pih.org/article/sierra-leones-newest-fight

Despite the limitless number of issues that plague resource-constrained settings, technology has proven to be extremely transformative.

https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/potential-not-panacea-tech-low-resource-health-delivery

Tuberculosis - Peru

25% population lives in poverty
32,000 people suffering from TB
highest rate of MDR-TB infection in LA

https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/fighting-tuberculosis-in-perus-village-of-hope

The volunteers, nearly all women already active in the community, have proven better at finding and curing people with tuberculosis than white-coated professionals

we have inspired major changes in national and global health policies and overturned assumptions that the drug regimen for the disease is too expensive and too complicated to succeed in poor communities.

https://www.pih.org/country/peru