1. OpenMRSDevelopers and Implementers Meeting Boston Hamish SF Fraser Partners In Health Division of Global Health Equity, BWH Harvard Medical School

2. Welcome 3. Agenda 9.30coffee/tea 10.00 Introduction Hamish Fraser 10.15 What is OpenMRSBurke Mamlin Examples in the field 10.45 AMPATH, Kenya, including on home based care Burke Mamlin 11.00 Rwinkwavu, Rwanda, includingsupport for clinical care, and synchronization between sites Hamish Fraser 11.15 South Africa/Zimbabwe/Mozambiqueand OASIS Chris Seebregts 11.30 Millennium Villages Project, includingvocabulary management and internationalization Andrew Kanter Features of OpenMRS 11.45 Research data management , Web forms, disease surveillance, use of OpenMRS in the US Darius Jazayeri 12.00 The OpenMRS VisionHamish Fraser 12.15 Panel discussion and Q&A Fraser, Mamlin,Seebregts, Kanter 4. Agenda - afternoon 1pm: Lunch, cafeteria, New Research Building (not included) 1pm: Lunch, cafeteria, New Research Building (not included) 2.00 Breakout sessionsPreliminary titles, OpenMRS deployment in the field Others may beOpenMRS API and module development proposed byStandards, integration of OpenMRS, including, DHIS audience OpenMRS use in the US Reporting and data export 3.30Break,coffee, tea 4.00 pm Report from breakouts, wrap up 4.45 Close 5. Faculty

Dr Hamish Fraser , Co-founder OpenMRS collaborative,Director of Informatics and Telemedicine Partners In Health, AssistantProfessorHarvard Medical School

Dr Burke Mamlin , Co-founder OpenMRS collaborative, Developer of initial design for OpenMRS, Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University

Dr Christopher Seebregts , Co-Founder OpenMRS Collaborative Senior Manger in Biomedical Informatics, South African Medical Research Council andDirector of the Postgraduate Program in Biomedical Informatics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Darius Jazayeri , Co-designer of OpenMRS Lead software developer, Partners In Health

Ben Wolfe , Co-designer of OpenMRS Lead Software Developer, Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University

Justin Miranda , OpenMRSdeveloper

Dr Andrew Kanter,Asst. Prof. of Clinical Biomedical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia University and Director of Health Information Systems/Medical Informatics for the Millennium Villages Project, Earth Institute, Columbia University

Mike Seaton , Developer, OpenMRS and Partners In Health

Evan Waters , EMR team lead, Partners In Health, Neno, Malawi

6. Breakout session sign-up

Please sign up for breakout sessions on the white boards or suggest different titles. We will discuss the breakout plans in the panel session.

We plan a split between developers and implementor topics

7. Software in the Public Interest Prize

Darius Jazayeri

was the 2009 recipient of theAntonio PizzigatiPrize for Software in the Public Interest.

Awarded for his 8 years developing open source medical information systems for developing countries

Prize money funded this meeting

8. Motivation for the meeting

Rapid expansion of OpenMRS, now in more than 15 countries

Unprecedented interest in medical information systems for global health

Stimulus bill and interest in all things EMR

We need to grow the organization and better understand the needs of healthcare professionals and developers

Evolution of the role of open source software in healthcare

9. 10. OpenMRS sites - fall 2008 11. Goals

To inform people in the US especially Boston area about OpenMRS

To engage people in discussions around the needs for EMR systems in resource poor environments

To foster the community of developers and users of OpenMRS

To encourage new collaborations