2016-02-25 Developers Forum

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Agenda

• Quickly review previous meeting minutes (5 min)
• Project Buendia Update
• DHIS2 Report Module Update
• Review next meeting agenda

Minutes

OpenMRS Developers Forum 2016-02-25

Recording: https://goo.gl/d3W9Va

Attendees

• Burke Mamlin
• Michael Downey
• Srimaurya Kummamuru
• Fabian Tamp
• tchuenkam ulrich
• Tim N
• Achinta Roy
• Shashank Motepalli
• Daniel Kayiwa
• Wyclif Luyima
• James deGraft-Johnson
• Vinay Venu
• Rafał Korytkowski
• Jamie Thomas
• Dan Cunningham
• Vishnu Rao
• Darius Jazayeri

Agenda/Notes

Update on Project Buendia <https://projectbuendia.org/>

• EMRE (electronic medical records for emergencies)

• Tablet app, form-based app, using OpenJDK

• Coming to close following pilot

• Trip to Chad (Jan 2016)

• SME in pediatric nutrition

• 5th year of MSF mission (several years into nutrition crisis)

• 3 teams w/ 8 staff each visiting one site daily

• Takeaways

• Lots of work on stability (some bogus bugs found in the field, nearly all fixed)

• 8 tablets on a server eventually – after a few hours – overwhelmed the server

• Health checks were taking 10-15% of traffic (cpu?)

• Resource-constrained server

• >6000 obs/24 hours starts to stress the architecture

• Need to make things very simple

• For example, green for go & red for stop isn't universally understood

• Filling in forms is distracting to care

• May have been exagerated b/c technology was new

• Logistics are critical in an emergency environment

• Cannot assume all tablets are always connected

• e.g., tablets secured overnight, when returned in morning suddenly overwhelm the server

• Charging tablets

• Rolling over to tablets from paper

• Security risk (a fair amount of expensive equipment brought it all at once)

• Lots of enthusiasm

• Short-term projects & projects developed during an emergency can be limiting (e.g., need more testing, code clean-up, following conventions, etc.)

• Formal evaluation process was very informative & helpful

• Formally evaluating human factors (having someone independent from the project)

• Formal evaluation is pending

• Future Work

• Paying down technical debt

• Finish formal evaluation

• Questions (add your questions here)

• Is there a demo site for EMRE?

•  Download link: http://builds.projectbuendia.org/

•  Download and install "CLIENT MASTER" onto Android device, set server to "dev.projectbuendia.org"

• How long could a tablet run (on battery) with screen off? Could a tablet function as a server?

• Haven't tried running OpenMRS on a tablet

• Did you observe care before designing system?

• 2nd trip to Chad, so, yes, team had observed care previously

• Did some mock environment testing and then did some early observations on site

DHIS2 Report Module Update

•  DHIS2 <https://www.dhis2.org>

• "DHIS 2 is the preferred health management information system in 47 countries and 23 organizations across four continents. DHIS 2 helps governments and health organizations to manage their operations more effectively, monitor processes and improve communication."

• Configuration on OpenMRS side

• Location Attribute

• Input Report XML

• DHIS2 server/user/password

• Export Formats of the reports

• dxf2

• ADX

• Rest API - Know Reports/Locations/Run Reports

•  DRM - Project - https://issues.openmrs.org/browse/DRM-8?jql=project%20%3D%20DRM

• Teams interested to work with us - Kenya,Ghana, Thoughtworks

• Reporting Module and ADX Disaggregation

• GSOC - DHIS2 Web API

Transcripts

• Audio recording of the call: Listen online or download (available after the meeting)