Regenstrief, in collaboration with Partners In Health (Boston) and MRC (South Africa), helped to found the OpenMRS project (OpenMRS.org), an open source effort to build a framework for electronic medical records in resource poor areas.  Much of the design for the OpenMRS project was gleaned from Regenstrief's decades of experience with electronic medical record systems.

History of our work in Africa

Regenstrief is involved with the exchange program between Indiana University School of Medicine and Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya. Several Kenyan scientists and researchers have come to Regenstrief for training in medical informatics. Some of our faculty and graduates have helped create one of the first truly scalable electronic medical record systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. First came the MMRS (Mosoriot Medical Record System), installed within a rural clinic and one of the premier electronic medical record (EMR) systems in Eastern Africa. The AMPATH Medical Record System (AMRS) was then created as the next generation EMR and is focused primarily on supporting the IU-Kenya Program's project to target the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS in Kenya.  AMRS later led to the development of a collaboration, termed OpenMRS.

External Links

See OpenMRS.org