OpenMRS Implementers Meeting

It is my first time to attend the OpenMRS conference. The event took place in Kigali, Rwanda. Rwanda is a beautiful hilly country area with perfect climate and warm smile of people. I felt very connected in some way as the country where I am from also had dark history of genocide as in Rwanda...

It gave me such a surprise to see an African country moving ahead even far better than some countries in Asia with regard to electronic medical record system. I think Cambodia itself has more to learn from the existing implementation of medical record system from Africa. The cultures are different but we are developing countries and the context of people in terms of economic scale are very similar.

NGOs such as Jembi, Ampath, PIH and Baobab have demonstrated very good success examples of OpenMRS implementation. OpenMRS has a very strong community and even African countries have the local capacity to be able to do customization of the tool base to their specific needs. One example that was demonstrated during the meeting, there was implementation of OpenMRS with touch screen and mobile data collection and reporting.