OpenMRS stands for 'Open Medical Records System', and is a major open-source project aiming to build medical information systems for developing countries. Their general goal is to provide a low-cost (free) solution for tracking patient conditions. Their specific goal is to fight AIDS in Africa.
Their website is http://openmrs.org/wiki/OpenMRS.
The project is gaining a lot of momentum. They have strong links with organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), corporate sponsorship from companies such as Google, and are already deployed in 12 countries.
The OpenMRS architects are are in the process of adding analytics using mondrian. I have committed to helping them out, and Matt Casters (architect of Pentaho Data Integration aka Kettle) is also …
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