Low power solution for OpenMRS

[yzz...@thoughtworks.com]

Hi all,

My colleagues and I are working on finding a proper solution for deploying OpenMRS in the district where the power supply is not statable.

We have assembled a cubieboard-based device which is a low cost small size hardware for server and already run OpenMRS on it. 

When the power goes done, we plan to use battery for the power supply of the server device.

And also, we wonder which is the most acceptable way to let people use our low power cost server.

After some investigations, here are some solutions:

1. Standard Android device connect cubieboard server
2. A keypad and LCD screen on cubieboard itself
3. ODKClinic an android app can connect to OpenRMS

We have not tried ODKClinic yet, it looks good, does anybody have any experience about it?

With standard android device solution, the health workers can find information about patient conveniently.

But nobody has shared any analysis of how well OpenMRS works on a plain android browser, so we worry about the performance on android.

Because of unstable-power,within the solution, all we cares is about power. 

If you have any suggestion on this, we will be very happy to hear about that. 

[James Arbaugh]

We have been inspired by the work of Baobab in Malawi with their point of service touchscreen clients.

http://www.j2retailsystems.com/docs/pdf_documentBaobab%20Health%20Trust%20case%20study.pdf

 

We are starting to implement J2 225 POS in our clinic here in Haiti.  We plan to power them with a POE+ switch and POE+ splitter.  This will allow us to manage power centrally, as opposed to having receptacles available in the clinic where other devices could get plugged in and overload the system.  Typical power consumption is advertised at 24-watts per device.  This is lower power consumption than most thin-clients with monitors.  It’s not as low power as a tablet, but it may provide a more standard interface.

ODK is on the way out (it doesn’t work with the latest version of OpenMRS per my experimentation).   You may look into mUsima?  I’m hoping this will become the new Android tool of the future…
https://github.com/muzima/documentation/wiki/mUzima-User-Guide-Initial-device-setup
https://github.com/muzima/documentation/wiki/mUzima-User-Guide-Synching-Forms-To-Server

Thanks,

James

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[yzz...@thoughtworks.com]

Hi James,

Thank you for your reply.

I have downloaded mUzima and installed it into android emulator.

I setup OpenMRS server and followed the github tutorial trying to connect mUzima with server.

After entered server address, username and password, the connection is good.

But when come to download cohort step, there are no cohorts shown in the list.

I found that I did't create any cohort at OpenMRS, so I added some, but the cohort list is still empty. 

I google a lot, but can't find any solution to this problem.

Do you know how to solve this problem? 

Any information will be appreciated.

Thank you.

[yzz...@thoughtworks.com]

By the way my OpenMRS server package is OpenMRS 2.0 Standalone.

[James Arbaugh]

I’m glad to hear of your progress with mUzima.  Were you able to find the OpenMRS module that does form conversion for mUzima?  Perhaps that handles the cohorts?  Just a thought.

[Darius Jazayeri]

Two things:

1. Implementers: what would you envision as your ideal unreliable-power setup for your environment. E.g. imagine that Yuanzheng and Xinyu have hardware experience, and the ability to experiment a bit. Is there some deployment scenario that you think would be better than what you've done, but needs some experimentation?

2. @Win, can you please comment on where is the right place for them to ask questions about mUzima (e.g. support, future development)

-Darius

[Nyoman Ribeka]

Darius,

I think Ada is maintaining the dev-list for the muzima project. I will ask her to add him into that mailing list.

[chinedu aniekwe]

Hi, 

Am trying to follow suite with this app since an having challenges getting OpenMRS-JR to work for me. From the wiki, they mentioned installing muzima module in OpenMRS but I cant find this module in the OpenMRS repository. I have also searched the muzima wiki and couldn't find anything. 

Does anyone have an idea on how to get the muzima module for openmrs?

Chinedu

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:42 AM, James Arbaugh <ja...@haitianhealthfoundation.org> wrote:

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Best Regards

Aniekwe Boniface Chinedu

[Yeung, Ada K.]

Hi, all, 

Thanks for your interests in mUzima, a mobile system which should be fully compatible with OpenMRS.  It is not ready for v1 release, and we are working on best open source licensing to use before release.  We will provide updates as soon as we are logistically ready to share with the larger community.  

For those are who are interested in subscribing to our listserv, please let me know and I can add you.

Cheers!

-ada

[yzz...@thoughtworks.com]

Hi james, 

Do you meaning XForms? I have installed it, but it still now work. Any suggestions?

[chinedu aniekwe]

Hi zzhou,

I think James is talking about the mUzima forms module as suggested in the wiki page. It needs to be installed for mUzima to be able to access the forms from OpenMRS. 

- James, I guess that is what your are talking about??

Chinedu 

[James Arbaugh]

Yes, that’s correct Chinedu.  Because mUzima uses Jasson forms, it must convert the xForm to Jasson, and that’s what the “missing” module does.  I saw a demo of the system at the last OpenMRS Implementers meetings, and it looked very promising!

 

Thanks,

James

[Friedman, Roger (CDC/CGH/DGHA) (CTR)]

This is rather interesting but is hard to follow because the subject doesn’t match the topic.