[Health] Fwd: Health OLPC (OpenMRS)

[Edward Cherlin]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Ellen Ball <eball at pih.org> wrote:
> My name is Ellen Ball.  I work at Partners In Health and am a
> developer/implementer of OpenMRS.

Delighted to meet you. I have been working with people in Free
Software for health applications off and on for several years, and
also in low-cost telemedicine.

Do you know in which countries there is overlap, and thus the
possibility of collaboration on the ground, between OLPC and PiH? See
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments

Haiti seems to be the place to start, and Rwanda is a possibility.

> I have successfully used OpenMRS from
> an XO browser.  It worked nicely, except that OpenMRS has a dependency
> on MS InfoPath for form entry.  We are moving to a non-propriety option
> (xforms), but currently our main method of entering data is using
> Infopath.
>
> Let me know if I can provide additional help,
>
> Ellen Ball
> Partners In Health
> Boston, MA USA
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jason Grey Faulkenberry <jgfaulkenberry at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 6:26 PM
> Subject: Health OLPC
> To: arjun at laptop.org
>
>
> Hello,
>   My name is Grey Faulkenberry and I am part of a group called Global
> Brigades.  We are a non-profit organization that began in Honduras,
> and now also have projects in Ghana, India, and Panama.  We do a
> number of types of projects including business brigades and
> microloans, water brigades with various purification projects, and
> numerous health projects including chimneys and latrines.
>    I am personally involved primarily with our medical brigade
> program, and will be it's director next year.  I am writing because I
> am interested in purchasing some XO laptops later this year in the buy
> one get one opportunity.  I wrote to the main website and they
> directed me to talk to you about what you have done and accomplished.
> I also wanted to see if there were opportunities where I might be able
> to help with your project.  Finally, I was wondering if you know of
> anyone that successfully setup an electronic medical record on an XO
> laptop.  I saw that a number of people were using VistA.  This is
> great, but I was wondering if anyone has tried OpenMRS.  It's an
> electronic medical record, but is a free open-source program.  Its
> website is http://openmrs.org/wiki/OpenMRS.  I think this could have
> some advantages over VistA.  It is already being used in multiple
> developing countries for many purposes and it is based on a data model
> with a concept dictionary, allowing it to be growable.  It was started
> by Paul Farmer, known at least in the medical circle, as the "Father
> of International Medicine."
>   Again, I just wanted to get in touch, because I hope to be able to
> use some of your projects in the future. Let me know if there's anyway
> I can help out.
>
> Sincerely,
> Grey Faulkenberry
>
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