How can i have multiple gender options other than F/M in openMRS

[ignatiouschihwayi]

Application Name: Standalone Version Number: 2.5.9 Build 0

Question: I am not facing anyissues so far, just wanted to find out if there is any OpenMRS version that i can use that has other multiple gender options besides the default M/F at registration? Or do I have to do some modications so that gender can be expanded? Sorry i may have been a late comer or asking a question that may have been addressed already, anyone who could help me with this as soon as possible is appeciated. I am a freelance developer, there are some private institutions that really needs to implement OpenMRS from my country and they have approached me needing this kind of information

[dkayiwa (Daniel Kayiwa)]

I just want to share some of the past discussions that have happened around this.

Adding non-binary gender to OpenMRS

Currently OpenMRS has only male and female options when choosing gender. But we know that there can be different situations. Adding ‘non-binary’, ‘third gender’ or ‘other’ option becomes more and more popular now. Some countries even have legalized it. According to OpenMRS Atlas, there are 9 countries where non-binary gender is legally present and where OpenMRS works. These countries include Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, United Kingdom and the US. These are on…

What are the semantics of Person.getGender()?

Hi there, could someone help clarify the intended use of the gender field of the OpenMRS Person class? Is it significant that this field is named “gender” rather than “sex”? Is it intended to represent a biological characteristic or a cultural characteristic? Does the field use the values of HL7’s Administrative Sex (http://www.hl7.org/FHIR/v2/0001/index.html) or Administrative Gender (http://www.hl7.org/FHIR/2015May/administrative-gender-map-v3.html)? Or can it be an arbitrary string? Than…

Adding patients with unknown gender

I’m migrating a bunch of patients from an old (non-OpenMRS) EMR into an instance of OpenMRS. The existing data contains lots of blanks in the “gender” column. OpenMRS is not allowing me to save patients without gender. Is there a better alternative to just putting something arbitrary (like “U”)? Are there any problems (especially runtime errors) that one might run into with this approach?

https://issues.openmrs.org/browse/RA-1629

[ignatiouschihwayi]

Okay thank you, let me scan through them

[bistenes (Brandon Istenes)]

The short version as far as I’m presently aware is that gender as supported in OpenMRS is Administrative Gender. This does support “other” and “unknown” as options. At this point the best advice I think is that detailed gender information should be collected separately. You can define a patient attribute, add that to registration, configure it to show up in the header on the patient chart, and it can have whatever values you like (values provided by the concept dictionary).