Release Notes 2.0

Introducing OpenMRS 2.0

Release date: 26 February 2014

Today, our community is excited to announce the release of OpenMRS 2.0. This is quite a milestone for us, and we’d like to explain what it means:

• We’re more than just a platform. OpenMRS 2.0 release brings a new focus to OpenMRS. Instead of just releasing a generic enterprise-grade platform and leaving it up to each implementation to configure, OpenMRS 2.0 includes more functionality “out of the box” that should help you be more productive, faster.
• Patient Summary view for clinicians.
• Visit view for data clerks.
• Vital Signs capture, including support for a standalone vitals workstation.
• Diagnosis capture, supporting coded/non-coded, confirmed/presumed, and primary/secondary diagnoses.
• Outpatient vs. Inpatient statuses.
• Multiple wards/services in a facility.

What hasn’t changed: OpenMRS 2.0 is still built on our familiar OpenMRS Platform, including OpenMRS API 1.9.7 and REST web services. We’re building on a decade of experience and effort from around the world to make sure our software is reliable and has a wide and deep support system.

What HAS changed: OpenMRS 2.0 features a completely new and modern user interface, built from scratch to be much more user friendly. Our new UI is still in its early days, so you may find some missing features. We will be continually improving the UI with your help and feedback. For example: in OpenMRS 2.1, we’ll let you add your own forms without having to write a module and we’ll include some pre-built reports along with an ad-hoc query tool. But we think it’s important to show the direction OpenMRS is moving, so current and future implementations can start planning around these changes. For more information on upcoming features, see the Road Map wiki page for OpenMRS 2.0.

You can download OpenMRS 2.0 from our downloads page using one of these options:

• OpenMRS 2.0 Standalone, recommended for new people exploring OpenMRS. A self-contained ZIP archive that includes an embedded database and application server, as well the option to install demo data, so you can quickly test out the new system.
• OpenMRS Enterprise WAR package and a 2.0 Modules ZIP archive, for upgrading an existing implementation to 2.0, or for mixing and matching modules.

Please visit our implementer documentation to learn more about how to setup and use OpenMRS 2.0.

Cheers,
Darius Jazayeri

Additional Technical Details

• Everything is built using reusable components on top of our new App Framework module that lets you build small “apps” using multiple technologies, including the OpenMRS UI Framework, HTML+JavaScript+REST, and the more traditional traditional Spring MVC.
• A higher-level, more opinionated EMR-related APIs in the EMR API module, and a new “encountertransaction” REST web service that lets clients build an encounter in real-time, by making multiple submissions, with improved semantics.
• A core set of configurable apps in the Core Apps module.
• A reference set of concepts, encounter types, etc in the Reference Metadata module.

You can leverage some or all of these technologies to build your own OpenMRS distribution. Learn more about developing for OpenMRS 2.x.

Bundled Modules

1. App Framework v. 2.1
2. App UI v. 1.1
3. Calculation v. 1.1
4. Core Apps v. 1.2.1
5. Data Exchange v. 1.1
6. EMR API v. 1.1
7. Event v. 2.1
8. HTML Form Entry 1.9 Ext v. 1.4
9. HTML Form Entry v. 2.2.1
10. HTML Form Entry UI v. 1.0
11. HTML Widgets v. 1.6.5
12. ID Gen v. 2.7
13. Logic v. 0.5.2
14. Metadata Mapping v. 1.0.1
15. Metadata Sharing v. 1.1.8
16. Name Phonetics v. 1.4
17. Provider Management v. 2.1
18. Reference Application v. 1.0.1
19. Reference Metadata v. 1.1
20. Registration App v. 1.0
21. Registration Core v. 1.0
22. Reporting v. 0.8.1
23. Serialization XStream v. 0.2.7
24. UI Commons v. 1.2.1
25. UI Framework v. 3.2.1
26. UI Library v. 2.0.4
27. Webservices REST v. 2.4

Resolved Issues

Contributors

A huge thanks to the 114 people that have contributed to the code base and helping us to get this far:

Alexandre Corrêa Barbosa	Alberto Saavedra	$usr_nm	Angshuman Sarkar	Aniketha Katakam
arathy jan	Arkadiusz Pień	Arkadiusz Kołodziejski	Ellen Ball	Bhashitha Wijewardhane
Rebecca Lau	$usr_nm	Chris Briesemeister	Ben Wolfe	Chalakanth Reddy
Cosmin Ioan	Ben Coleman	Lamar Myles	$usr_nm	Dadepo Aderemi
Daniel Shorten	David Palacios	Dedunu Dhananjaya	Darius Jazayeri	Daniel Kayiwa
Kithmal H.M.D	David Marcos	Zhaslan Doschanov	Deepak N	Eshan Sudharaka
Fouad Zaryouh	Garima Ahuja	Gaurav Paliwal	Gaurav Saini	Glauber Ramos
$usr_nm	Gurpreet Luthra	David Chan	Guilherme Cavalcanti	Chris Niesel
Hannes Venter	Harsha Kumara	Hemanth S. R	Wesley Brown	Ishara Premadasa
Jean D'Amore	Jeff Black	Jennifer Parise	Jeremy Keiper	Jakub Kondrat
Kaweesi Joseph	Sateesh Kavuri	Kishore Yekkanti	Krzysztof Kaczmarczyk	Lee Breisacher
Łukasz Gąsior	Lluis Martinez	Lech Rozanski	Lukasz Plotnicki	Madawa Soysa
Mário Areias	Sri Maurya Kummamuru	Michael Downey	Michael Pigg	Mike Le
Mark Goodrich	Mike Seaton	Marek Szukalski	Mujir Shaikh	Rohit Mukherjee
Filip Spiridonov	Fernando Freire	$usr_nm	$usr_nm	Jesus Salazar
Nils Eckelt	$usr_nm	Pulkit Bhuwalka	Nyoman Ribeka	Oliver Wilkie
Susan Tan	Piotr Orzechowski	Owais Hussain	Ozge Catalbas	Pamela Mori
Pascal Brandt	Andrea Patterson	$usr_nm	Przemyslaw Gierszewski	Patrick Turley
Rafal Korytkowski	David Sanders	Ryan Crichton	Robert Day	$usr_nm
Bailly Rurangirwa	Sara Fatima	Sashrika Waidyarathna	Shruthi Dipali	Sindu R
Suraj Ponugoti	Suranga Kasthurirathne	Sushmitha Rao	Tom Ryan	Tony Waters
Vinay Venu	Vinkesh Banka	Wolf Schlegel	Wyclif Luyima	Yonatan Grinberg
Individual IT Services	Indraneel Rao	Mr. Marvin	Vatsal Singhal

Download

• Download OpenMRS 2.0 at http://openmrs.org/download, and see the implementer documentation.