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

[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