tmccormi wrote on Wednesday, October 14, 2015:
The Peace Corps is currently rolling out an electronic health record (EHR) system based on OpenEMR, an open source EHR, to 77 countries across the world. OpenEMR has been translated to 34 languages and implemented at more than 20,000 medical facilities in 184 countries. The Peace Corps worked with the OpenEMR community to upgrade and enhance OpenEMR into the world’s most sophisticated distributed EHR. The Peace Corps had to invest in an open source solution as it required an EHR that could be used anywhere from countries with advanced Internet service to Peace Corps volunteers serving in the bush in Africa with no Internet access. No proprietary EHR vendor could possibly deliver a solution that could accomplish what the Peace Corps needed. Thus the apps developed for the Peace Corps at the GHC Open Source Day will not only help the Peace Corps, but by being open source apps they can be integrated into OpenEMR and help tens of millions of people around the world seeking medical care at facilities running OpenEMR.
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http://www.openhealthnews.com/hotnews/grace-hopper-open-source-day-2015-turning-point-open-health-and-humanitarian-open-source-pro