CODING TO SAVE LIVES

Our Story:Today, MORE THAN 40 million people in DEVELOPING COUNTRIES are infected with diseases like:

Malaria, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and HIV

What We Do OpenMRS provides an open source application to help provide health care to countries in need.

Who are we? OpenMRS is◦A global community◦Volunteers◦People working together to save lives

Our Goals Easier patient and health professional interactionImprove the health of citizens

What can you do?As part of the OpenMRS community you can◦Develop◦Test◦Document◦Translate

How Does This Happen? Information is easily summarised and analysed Reduced need for custom programming

Technology OpenMRS utilises an Java-based web application.◦Runs in◦Small clients◦Large servers

It is easily customizable to preferences. .

Technology in Detail Built on MySQL database Data model◦Concept dictionary is easily accessible

Atlas module◦Map with information on OpenMRS

How to get involved◦Joining the OpenMRS mailing list

◦Joining the internet relay chat (IRC)

◦Contributing ideas and queries to OpenMRS talk

Further information OpenMRS talk: https://talk.openmrs.org/ Wiki page: https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Home JIRA: https://issues.openmrs.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa Demo Server: http://openmrs.org/demo/ Website: www.openmrs.org