A/Prof. Terry HANNAN

A/Prof. Terry HANNAN started a discussion "Expert Panel: OpenMRS Implementers: Experiences and Lessons Learned, May 14th to 18th 2012." in the Health IT community.

Many clinical organizations are working to implement an electronic medical record (EMR) or electronic health record (EHR) to digitize their work and improve the care they can provide. However, many have questions about how to choose an EMR and how to implement these programs. To answer these questions, we have been fortunate to obtain access to the knowledge resources of four experts in the field of e-health and OpenMRS implementation. OpenMRS is an open source ...

A/Prof. Terry HANNAN replied to "Expert Panel: OpenMRS Implementers: Experiences and Lessons Learned, May 14th to 18th 2012." in the Health IT community.

Emran, thank you for this positive response. As Moderator I also as did others find that this was an informative and vigorous discussion. I have already begun with my colleagues to compile a discussion brief to be posted to the site soon. I have also collected all the Reply statements and can consider putting them in a single document however I believe these remain on the GHDonline site for permanent access. Terry -----Original Message----- From: ...

A/Prof. Terry HANNAN replied to "Expert Panel: OpenMRS Implementers: Experiences and Lessons Learned, May 14th to 18th 2012." in the Health IT community.

As the Moderator for the recent Expert Panel discussion on OpenMRS implementation I would like to thank all participants. Firstly, to the panel members, Evelyn Castle, Burke Mamlin, Dave Thomas and James Arbaugh I would like to express on behalf of GHDonline our deepest thanks for your commitment of time, energy and knowledge. We are aware of your daily commitments to your ‘routine’ daily activities, not that they are routine by normal standards. Therefore your ...

A/Prof. Terry HANNAN replied to "Expert Panel: OpenMRS Implementers: Experiences and Lessons Learned, May 14th to 18th 2012." in the Health IT community.

To Ron Hebert. Your points add further clarification to the concepts surrounding "free" and you have delineated these clearly. When one observes the OpenMRS developers and Implementers sites it seems as if 'adaptable forms' for data capture is a signficant component of the developments. Does this not reflect a strength of this system that enables it to adapt to local 'point of care' data capture needs? Also is it possible to have references with evaluations ...

A/Prof. Terry HANNAN replied to "Expert Panel: OpenMRS Implementers: Experiences and Lessons Learned, May 14th to 18th 2012." in the Health IT community.

We thank the panelists for their thoughtful contributions to the discussion so far, and hope others in the Health IT community with experience or questions about OpenMRS implementation, or other projects, will chime in and share there thoughts on this discussion as well. I am adding a series of summary points for the discussion so far. Summary points: • B.Mamlin-addresses growth and sustainability of the e-health system. He also refers to the continuing value of ...

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