[Gnumed-devel] SoC OpenMRS

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Hi all,

Just for reference on the Google SoC activities at OpenMRS. <you can always 
stay informed by visiting planet.gnumed.de

Jaoa Portela from Portugal will be building a WYSIWYG form designer for the 
HTML form entry module.  As many in the OpenMRS community know, we can use all 
the alternatives for data collection we can find.  Darius made a great module 
for crafting HTML-based forms as an alternative to InfoPath and Jaoa will make 
form building even easier.  Primary mentor: Darius Jazayeri, Backup mentor: 
Daniel Futerman.

Dilupa Munindradasa from India will be integrating a Quartz scheduler into 
OpenMRS.  Justin created our current scheduler that’s responsible for running 
and managing all of the background processes for OpenMRS.  Quartz is an 
open-source enterprise-level job scheduler that can further enhance our 
background job processing capabilities.  We’ve wanted to adopt Quartz for a 
while, but just haven’t had the time.  Dilupa will be able to bring enterprise 
level job scheduling to all of our OpenMRS implementations.  Primary mentor: 
Justin Miranda, Backup mentor: Vibha Anand.

Lu Zhuang Wei from China will be building a serialization service for OpenMRS.  
Web services and some of our core reporting tools depend on the ability to 
efficiently transform OpenMRS “objects” into other formats.  To date, we have 
been using various and sometimes redundant methods to do this work throughout 
OpenMRS.  By introducing a new core service into OpenMRS, Lu will help us 
consolidate and improve our core code.  Primary mentor: Ben Wolfe, Backup 
mentor: Daniel Kayiwa.

Omar Verduga from Mexico will be building a longitudinal data review 
(flowsheet) module for OpenMRS.  Providers, data managers, and researchers 
often depend on quick and intuitive access to historic patient data.  Omar will 
help us build the first version of a cutting-edge clinical data viewing tool 
for OpenMRS. Primary mentor: Paul Biondich, Backup mentor: Maros Cunderlik.

Pavel Konnikov from Russia will be adding global Property types to OpenMRS.  
Many different parts of OpenMRS, from modules to portlets to general features 
depend on global property settings to fine-tune them to fit an implementation’s 
needs.  Currently, managing various settings is fairly clumsy within OpenMRS.  
Pavel will pave the way for much more sophisticated handling of global property 
settings within OpenMRS.  Primary mentor: Dave Thomas, Backup mentor: Justin 
Miranda.

Antoine Nzeyimana from Rwanda will be enhancing data synchronization by 
improving the process needed to create a new node.  Partners In Health has been 
field-testing data synchronization, which allows multiple OpenMRS servers to 
share data.  As the OpenMRS team works to make this a core feature available to 
all implementations, one of the challenges is improving the addition of a new 
server to the network.  Antoine, who helped with synchronization last year, 
will be joining us again to improve this critical piece of the synchronization 
puzzle.  Primary mentor: Maros Cunderlik, Backup mentor: Ben Wolfe.

Harshini Gudiwada from India will be adding role-based home page support to 
OpenMRS.  Several implementations have asked for the ability to have different 
people see a different starting screen when logging into OpenMRS.  Harshini 
will make this possible under the mentorship of Saptarshi, one of last year’s 
Google Summer of Code students.  Primary mentor: Saptashi Purkayastha, Backup 
mentor: Darius Jazayeri.

Nimantha Baranasuriya from Sri Lanka will be building an audit module for 
OpenMRS.  Any one managing large amounts of clinical data knows that quality 
data requires not only safeguards to ensure data errors are avoided wherever 
possible, but also tools to monitor the data for inconsistencies or errors.  
Nimantha will be creating a tool that can be used by any OpenMRS implementation 
to facilitate data quality monitoring.  Primary mentor: Brian McKown, Backup 
mentor: Mike Seaton.

Katherin Kuan from the U.S. will be building video upload capabality for Moca 
mobile devices load ultrasound and other video media into OpenMRS.  Moca has 
built mobile tools that integrate with OpenMRS.  Katherine will help add 
clinical video uploading to the list of mobile possibilities.  Primary mentor: 
Gari Clifford, Backup mentors: Zack Anderson and RJ Ryan.

Jenny Liu from the U.S. will be building authentication and registration 
capabilities for Moca mobile devices integrated with OpenMRS.  Several mobile 
solutions are being built around OpenMRS and they all need a way to 
authenticate and register patients.  While working on a solution for Moca 
mobile devices, Jenny will help create a standard model for mobile 
authorization/registration in OpenMRS for other mobile solutions to use as 
well.  Primary mentor: Zack Anderson, Backup mentors: Gari Clifford and RJ Ryan.

Upul Godage from Sri Lanka will be adding active lists support to OpenMRS.  
Some of the key data elements for any electronic medical record system are 
problem lists and allergy lists.  Upul will help make these a core part of 
OpenMRS.  Primary mentor: Burke Mamlin, Backup mentor: Dave Thomas.

Robert O’Connor from the U.S. will be creating aggregate data entry tools for 
OpenMRS.  While OpenMRS strives to build reports from high quality 
patient-level data, sometimes reports depend on aggregate data from external 
systems.  Robert will allow implementations to enter and manage these data 
within OpenMRS so they can be used by reporting tools.   Primary mentor: Mike 
Seaton, backup mentor: Darius Jazayeri.

Amogha Gundavaram from India will be integrating the OpenEMPI Master Patient 
Index with OpenMRS.  OpenEMPI is an open-source master patient index system.  
As organizations grow, they often need to move control of the master patient 
list from the electronic medical record system to a centralized system, such as 
OpenEMPI.  Amogha will help create a module or messaging solution to integrate 
OpenMRS with OpenEMPI.   Primary mentor: Odysseas Pentakalos, Backup mentor: 
Shaun Grannis.

Saketh Bhamidipati from the U.S. will be enhancing the patient de-duplication 
workflow in the OpenMRS patient matching module.  As implementations grow, 
ending up with duplicate patient records is a common problem.  Shaun is a 
leader in the field of patient matching and mentored a student last year in 
creating a patient matching module for OpenMRS.  This summer, Saketh will 
improve the interface so that patient de-duplication will become a tool in 
every OpenMRS implementation’s arsenal.   Primary mentor: Shaun Grannis, Backup 
mentor: James Egg.

Moses Mugisha from Uganda will be integrating FrontlineSMS with OpenMRS.  
FrontlineSMS is an innovative solution for gathering data via SMS messages, 
even allowing simple forms to be sent to devices and responses collected over 
SMS.  Moses will integrate FrontlineSMS with OpenMRS, allowing simple form data 
using OpenMRS concepts to be collected from mobile phones over SMS.  Primary 
mentor: Daniel Kayiwa, Backup mentor: Paul Biondich.

Felicia Rosemond from the U.S. will be adding global caching support to the 
OpenMRS decision support engine.  We have created a logic engine to support 
complex decision support rules at a low level within OpenMRS.  One of the 
critical improvements needed for this service to become widely used is improved 
caching of derived results.  Felicia will replace the existing rudimentary 
caching in the logic service with a high quality open-source caching library.  
Primary mentor: Tammy Dugan, Backup mentor: Burke Mamlin.
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