2006-04-27 Developers Conference Call

OpenMRS is growing

• Zambia Group, Malawi Group, ...
• Discussed options for growing the group
  • Define modules that are needed?

• Changes coming to subversion
  • Using /trunk, /branches, and /tags

• Unit Testing
  • How to test the UI?

• Updates from RG
  • Data model changes coming
    • Adding addresses for users
      • We talked about making users and patient extend person
        • Duplicate names/addresses for users? Or re-model and even allow person to be the subject of obs? (to allow observations about users, etc.)
    • Sets - we will separate sets from classes
    • Synonyms - synonyms will be classified as alternate names or lookup phrases, we will add concept_synonym.lookup_only (or something like that) as a bit
    • Answers - we will add answer_class and answer_set to concept_answer table
    • identifier_type.preferred and/or identifier_type.required to promote and/or require use of identifiers

• Transaction processing (Justin)

Discussion Points:

• PIH needs to schedule a walkthrough of RG's order entry system