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This project is being considered as a potential project for 2014 Internships. If you are a potential intern and are interested in working on this project, please discuss it in detail with the mentor(s) listed here before submitting your internship proposal.
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Many international communities are looking for low-bandwidth, low-resource solutions for hosting and connecting to OpenMRS via 2G or 3G networks. They need a version of OpenMRS that can be accessed easily through a mobile browser or a laptop connected to a low-bandwidth ISP.
The classic use case for this module would be a health worker using a tablet or smartphone in a 2G area; we should not be concerned with feature phone web page rendering problems. Similarly a satellite uplink or tethered phone in a low connectivity area would be ideal for demonstrating the benefits of using this module in place of the reference application.
We have a real-world situation that an engineered solution would directly impact; the RHEA Maternal Care workflow is a combination of several OpenMRS HTML Form Entry forms. A good solution would allow for capturing this data over a 2G connection, either on a computer with a low bandwidth uplink or on a mobile device. In this scenario, we can assume the following:
See the WHO MNCH Guidelines and RHEA OpenMRS maternal workflow forms for more information.
I believe the key to this will be smart UI design and a style guide that allows for minimal page entities while conveying the right amount of information and functionality. We might trade off automation for page load timing. We could also investigate how to preload some data and allow the phone to catch up and enable automation after the user has some way to view the bulk of the data.
9 Comments
Akshika Wijesundara
very thoughtful
Akshika Wijesundara
Hi, I would like to know more about this project. How can I contact you ?
Jeremy Keiper
We can chat in IRC sometime or over email.
Akshika Wijesundara
Can I have your email address, So that I could directly contact you
. I would like to try this out for GSOC 2014
Jeremy Keiper
Akshika, you can begin the process by creating a proposal and submitting through Google Melange. We can discuss the proposal through that mechanism, and you can also find me on IRC or through the mailing lists.
Suraj Ponugoti
Hi,can I know for which openmrs version we should do ? I mean for openmrs 1.11 or openmrs emr 2.0.
Jeremy Keiper
Suraj, I would like to have this work with OpenMRS 1.9.7 platform (OpenMRS 2.0 release).
Shubham Rai
Jeremy Keiper I have submitted a project proposal. Could you kindly review it and give some pointers as to where I can improve and what I have missed.
Akash Agrawall
Jeremy Keiper I have submitted the project proposal. Whenever time permits kindly review it and suggest some improvements.
Thank you,
Akash