Interested Collaborator - Mekom Solutions (→ Ozone HIS → OpenMRS 3)

[mks-d]

About You

1. I am submitting on behalf of:

• [ ] Myself (as an individual)
• [x] My company, government or organization
• [x] My open source community

2. What is your name: Dimitri RENAULT

3. If applicable, please type the name of the company, government, organization or open source community on behalf of which you're submitting:

Mekom Solutions    ↳ Ozone HIS      ↳ OpenMRS 3

4. Please type your GitHub ID: @mks-d

5. Can we contact you at your GitHub ID with updates on WHO open source projects? Your information will not be shared further or for any other purpose.

• [x] Yes
• [ ] No

About Your Interest

6. Please consult the ReadMe and indicate the projects on which you're interested in collaborating:

• [ ] Augmented Public Health Intelligence - AI/ML
• [ ] Semantic Web of Public Health Data - open APIs
• [x] Active COVID-19 Surveillance Data Access Layer
• [x] Go.Data
• [x] Other: EMR/EHR and interoperable patient management software in general

7. Please briefly describe how you would like to collaborate on the project(s) above:

Mekom Solutions develops and maintains open-source patient-centric (EMR/EHR) applications made with OpenMRS 3 - the open-source EMR system for our world. We believe that open digital health is a pillar of universal access to healthcare; and we are committed to building it by co-contributing to Digital Public Goods, and specifically to OpenMRS 3.

Disease surveillance is already supported in OpenMRS 3 for HIV and there is no particular challenge nor impediments to extend this to COVID-19. There are a number of native features of OpenMRS 3 that can directly support contact tracing workflows, for instance the management of patient lists and OpenMRS Offline. Furthermore an upcoming COVID-19 OpenMRS 3 package would combine perfectly with WHO's DHIS2 COVID-19 Surveillance & Response Toolkit.

We would like to increase WHO's awareness of OpenMRS 3 by implementing and trying it in the context of disease surveillance. This endeavour shall demonstrate that its potential goes beyond that scope: OpenMRS 3 is a full-fledged EMR system that is able to support frontline health workers at the point-of-care in a wide variety of clinical areas that are of interest to the WHO. It has an extensive ecosystem of donors and contributors, an ambitious roadmap and a proven track record since it has been implemented at thousands of health facilities around the world, including at the national level in many countries.

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A very quick peek at OpenMRS 3:

Fig.1 - OpenMRS 3, patient list for triage

Fig.2 - OpenMRS 3, reviewing lab results

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