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OpenMRS and Pentaho Collaborate to
Enhance Open Source Health Management
Other Topics:
Medical
Digital Imaging
Marketwire
Aug 21, 2008
Community-Developed Electronic Medical Record System Teams With
Pentaho to Develop Integrated BI and Data Warehousing
Capabilities
ORLANDO, Florida - Pentaho, the
commercial open source alternative for business intelligence
(BI), and Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS) , a
community-developed open source enterprise electronic medical
record system, today announced collaboration to enhance
integration between the OpenMRS system and Pentaho's open source
BI suite. The integrated system demonstrates the power of the
open source model to deliver real-world impact via community
development to address user populations that are unable to
acquire or maintain traditional proprietary medical records
systems due to high software acquisition and maintenance costs,
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Open
Medical Record System (OpenMRS®) formed in 2004 as an open
source medical record system framework that enables the design
of customized medical records systems with little to no
programming knowledge. The group is focused on supporting
developing countries where AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria
afflict the populations. Up to 95 percent of the 40 million
people living in developing countries are infected with or dying
from HIV/AIDS. Proper prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS
requires organized dissemination and management of countless
patient details. , Traditionally, based on factors like lack of
time, developers, or money, most HIV/AIDS programs in developing
countries have managed information with simple spreadsheets or
poorly designed databases or without any computer technology at
all. OpenMRS and Pentaho have come together to improve health
management tools while reducing unnecessary, duplicative
efforts. Critical information can be handled more efficiently
and effectively, making the care providers better able to focus
efforts on their patients and address their healthcare needs.
"We are working hard to grow the OpenMRS community, since we
believe this is the best way to help patients within developing
countries through a robust and extensible medical record system
foundation," said Paul Biondich M.D. and IT Project Lead for
OpenMRS. "Pentaho brings proven open source tools and the right
expertise to help reduce the amount of redundant efforts in
collecting, managing, and analyzing health services
information."
Pentaho allows OpenMRS sites to extract and
integrate data from the OpenMRS operational system to enable
faster and more complete reporting and analysis. This kind of
capability becomes more and more important as OpenMRS
installations throughout the world scale in size and complexity.
In the current phase, the teams are working with users and
community members to create data extractions and develop
analytical data models with Pentaho Data Integration which can
then be used for reporting and analysis using Pentaho's popular
Mondrian OLAP project.
Community members are invited to help support this important
initiative by providing feedback, or assisting with modeling or
other development tasks. Interested users and contributors can
find out more at: http://openmrs.org/wiki/Reporting_ETL_and_OLAP_Project
"This effort is a perfect example of the difference communities
can make, and a unique opportunity for open source software to
help address a global problem in a new way," said Doug Moran,
vice president of community at Pentaho. "We look forward to
working with the OpenMRS team and the community to show the
benefits that open collaboration can bring to healthcare
providers around the world."
About OpenMRS
OpenMRS
is a multi-institution, nonprofit collaborative led by
Regenstrief Institute, Inc. (http://regenstrief.org), a
world-renowned leader in medical informatics research, and
Partners In Health (http://pih.org), a Boston-based
philanthropic organization with a focus on improving the lives
of underprivileged people worldwide through health care service
and advocacy. These teams nurture a growing worldwide network of
individuals and organizations all focused on creating medical
record systems and a corresponding implementation network to
allow system development self reliance within resource
constrained environments. To date, OpenMRS has been implemented
in several African countries, including South Africa, Kenya,
Rwanda, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Uganda, and Tanzania.
This work is supported in part by organizations such as the
World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control
(CDC), The Rockefeller Foundation, and the President's Emergency
Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
About Pentaho Corporation
Pentaho Corporation is the
commercial open source alternative for Business Intelligence
(BI). Pentaho Open BI Suite provides comprehensive reporting,
OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration, data mining and a
BI platform that have made it the world's leading and most
widely deployed open source BI suite. Pentaho's commercial open
source business model eliminates software license fees,
providing support, services, and product enhancements via an
annual subscription. In the years since Pentaho's inception as
the pioneer in commercial open source BI, Pentaho's products
have been downloaded more than three million times, with
production deployments at companies ranging from small
organizations to The Global 2000. For more information, visit
www.pentaho.com. |
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