Thanks to all who joined today’s well-attended TAC call for a discussion on a reporting strategy for the OpenMRS community! Notes are available under 2022-01-31 on om.rs/tacnotes.
We discussed the goals of leveraging existing tools to provide a standalone solution for reporting/analytics that can be scaled, when needed, to separate server(s) or into the cloud:
We focused on the four areas of (1) change data capture, (2) transform, (3) data store, and (4) reporting/analytics and want to keep in mind that a primary consumer of analytics will be the EMR itself:
We enumerated some of the tools available for each of these areas, discussing pros & cons of each, and decided to use the Analytics Engine Squad spaces (Slack and Thursday calls) to move the conversation forward, centering discussion on four key areas:
- Change Data Capture (CDC)
- Data processing pipelines and transforms
- Analytics data store
- Reporting tools and Business Intelligence
Thanks @akimaina, @achachiez, and @mseaton for your leadership in this space. As a next step, let’s continue the conversation on how to move forward in #analytics-engine on Slack (e.g., to plan a next call).
Cheers,
-Burke 