OpenMRS has global presence as an open source web based medical record system (MRS). It is built on an extensible, modular framework that allows the user to create a MRS that is as simple or complex as needed. OE is a multi-user network accessible analysis and visualization tool that enables users to monitor the populationÃs health from any computer connected to that network. OE was created as an open source solution using features and lessons learned from Enterprise ESSENCE, (Electronic Surveillance System for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics.) OE provides analyses, maps, graphs, charts, crosstabs, as well as detail tables and export functionality.
Objective
By pairing an open source medical record system, OpenMRS, with the Suite for Automated Global Electronic bioSurveillance (SAGES) disease surveillance tool, OpenESSENCE (OE), we have prototyped an open source solution for passive disease and program surveillance using an active medical record system.