Collaboration with other projects

In line with recent efforts to improve the meaningful use of healthcare, OpenMRS has actively persued methods to enforce connectivity between piecemeal medical applications. On these grounds, we have encounraged the creation of modules which enable OpenRS to interact with other related systems.

Noteworthy examples of our efforts include interoperability between OpenMRS and OpenELIS (the Laboratory Information System) and OpenMRS to DHIS2 (District Health Information System 2) integration via the SDMX-HD standard.
Furthermore, we also promote the implementation of health data standards which enable the conveniant exchage of medical data. OpenMRS supports the generation and consumption of hl7 messging, the most cmmoinly used health data standard for exchanging infromation. This allows external systems to communicate andexhange medical data in a more coherant manner.

Additionally, OpenMRS is also involved in efforts to promote the development of regional and national level Health Information Exchanges (HIE). This initiative sees the collaboration between multiple health applications to enable connectivity between piecemeal implementations. In this capacity, OpenMRS been adopted as the Shared Health Record (SHR) of the openHIE collaboration initiative emerging to assist in the strengthening of national health information exchanges for the underserved.