OpenMRS — Digital Square: Blog

Global good partners in profile: Annah Ngaruro, ICF

Each quarter, Digital Square shines the spotlight on global goods and innovators in our community through our Global Goods Community Newsletter. Annah Ngaruro is a Project Management Institute-certified Project Management Professional and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional with 20 years of experience developing and supporting health information systems for variety of US government agencies. She is currently the DATIM Data Exchange and Interoperability portfolio lead responsible for providing the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy (S/GAC) Program Results for Impact Monitoring and Epidemic Control (PRIME) with portfolio leadership and product ownership for the data exchange and interoperability portfolio within the DATIM systems teams.

Global Goods, PeopleDigital SquareDecember 4, 2020OpenMRS, COVID-19, Global good, Profile, CommunityComment

OpenMRS: Creating a pipeline of experts to transform digital health

When it comes to sustainability, one of the challenges faced by many open source digital solutions is the availability of sufficiently skilled developers to support and maintain the core product. At OpenMRS, the community discovered that greater adoption strained the availability of a small number of experienced developers, project managers, business analysts, and technical writers.

Global GoodsDigital SquareDecember 3, 2020OpenMRS, Fellowship Comment

Global good partners in profile: Rita Sembajwe, RTI International

Each quarter, Digital Square shines the spotlight on global goods and innovators in our community through our Global Goods Community Newsletter. This interview was first shared in May 2020.

Global Goods, PeopleDigital SquareSeptember 15, 2020OpenMRS, COVID-19, Global good, Profile, CommunityComment

FHIR-based Interoperability Solution for OpenELIS and OpenMRS

The recent emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of strong laboratory systems for detecting outbreaks of infectious diseases, as well as for other personal and population health purposes such as monitoring HIV viral load suppression among patients receiving antiretroviral treatment, or measuring pathogen resistance to antibiotics.

Global GoodsDigital SquareJune 25, 2020OpenELIS, OpenMRS, FHIR, Global Goods, InteroperabilityComment

Global good partners in profile: Steven Wanyee, IntelliSOFT Consulting Ltd.

Each quarter, Digital Square shines the spotlight on global goods and innovators in our community through our Global Goods Community Newsletter. This interview was first shared in May 2020.

Global Goods, PeopleDigital SquareMay 22, 2020OpenMRS, COVID-19, Global good, Profile, CommunityComment

The power of community—improving OpenMRS Sync 2.0 after its release

Earlier this year, we shared our work on OpenMRS Sync 2.0. Here is an update on our continued work!

OpenMRS is a patient-centric medical record application that documents the details of interactions between health care providers and patients. The software gathers a patient’s treatment details into a single patient chart. The Sync 2.0 module improves the synchronization of data by providing a way for health workers to manually sync their data at a central office. As a long-time contributor to the OpenMRS community, SolDevelo saw the importance of these features. We began developing Sync 2.0 as a pro bono effort before pursuing funding through Digital Square. SolDevelo worked as the main coders on this software module.

Global GoodsDigital SquareOctober 4, 2019OpenMRS, Global Goods, Global Good, SolDeveloComment

Solving the sync challenge: OpenMRS Sync 2.0

Digital health continues to change the way health systems reach communities around the world. However, when internet connectivity is limited or intermittent, health workers do not reap the full benefits of digital tools. This is a barrier that SolDevelo is working to remove. Last year, SolDevelo began working on a new module for the Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS), an open source medical records platform.

Global GoodsDigital SquareMay 21, 2019OpenMRS, BandwidthComment

Digital Square investing in nine proposals to strengthen digital health software tools

Digital Square is pleased to announce that nine proposals were selected for investment as part of our third round of funding, Notice C, which included two announcements, Notice C0 and Notice C1. A total of $1.26 million is being invested into these digital health software tools by multiple donors. One of these donors, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), committed a total of $151,827 to coinvest alongside Digital Square’s funding for Notice C1. Notice C was implemented using Digital Square’s Open Proposal Process and Platform (OPP&P). Concept notes and proposals were publicly posted, giving submitters the opportunity to find collaborators and provide and receive feedback from peers. The iterative feedback and proposal process allowed submitters to refine and strengthen their concepts before final submission. More information on our proposal process can be found here.

Global Goods, Digital SquareDigital SquareDecember 26, 2018Investment, Notice C, OpenLMIS, OpenMRS, OpenELIS, mHero, OpenHIE, DHIS2, Bahmni, Nepal, Open Application ProcessComment

Digital Square investing in 10 proposals to strengthen digital health software tools

Digital Square is pleased to announce that ten proposals were selected for investment as part of our second round of funding, Notice B. More information on the criteria for funding can be found in the Call for Proposals—Notice B, located on the Digital Square Wikipedia page. A total of $1.2 million is being invested into these digital health software tools. The funding recipients have also committed a total of $400,000 to co-invest alongside Digital Square’s funding.

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