GSoC 2021 at OpenMRS | Community Bonding Period

This blog will cover my experience with the OpenMRS community after being selected as a student in Google Summer of Code. The community period is about three weeks long, where I got to know some amazing persons and discussed about the project.

About My Project: SMART-on-FHIR

SMART is an acronym for Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies. SMART started to build a standard framework that allows the development of “Interchangeable Healthcare Applications”. The vision was for providers at an individual level to have the power to select and use the applications best suited to their needs without forcing every provider in the healthcare organization to use the same apps:

OpenMRS is the world’s leading Opensource enterprise Electronic Medical Record (EHR) system platform. OpenMRS is successfully adopted the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard, which is the backbone for the SMART-on-FHIR functionality. FHIR is a standard for exchanging electronic health records, and we will use FHIR to send the data from EHR to SMART apps.

My project focuses on enabling the OpenMRS to support the SMART App available on the internet.

Community Period:

OpenMRS community is very open and welcoming. Community members have lots of experience and knowledge. They always ready to help you, especially when you are a beginner. They provide you the resource and guide you as well.

Regarding this project, After I got selected, I’m in touch with my mentors Ian Bacher and Siddharth Vaish on OpenMRS Talk. We have discussed our project and set some milestones.

Resources:

Project Discussion Thread: Public discussion can be found here.

Github Repos:

SMART-on-FHIR: https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-smartonfhir

Keycloak-SMART-Auth: https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-contrib-keycloak-smart-auth

Keycloak-Auth: https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-contrib-keycloak-auth