It’s official: OpenMRS v3 is now used in Production in over 1,000 sites!
1,400 to be specific! Across 35 countries.
And these are ONLY the ones that we specifically know about! We believe we are missing some.
The top 5 by site volume are:
860 sites in Kenya by @PalladiumKenya and their network of KeHMIS Implementers, for general OPD, HIV-speciality clinics, and whole-of-facility (142 sites are facility-wide, meaning areas like lab and billing are also included).
163 sites in Uganda by @METS and their UgandaEMR Implementers network, for services ranging from HIV, to MCH, to OPD. See their live public dashboard here showing all O3 (“UgandaEMR+”) sites!
160 sites in Cambodia with Ozone Distro Cambodia, set up by @Mekom, for NCD care (in Khmer)
112 sites in Ethiopia for HIV care, by @ICAPEthiopia
25+ sites world-wide by @ICRC (in English, French and Spanish)
For the full detailed list of sites and countries using O3 (that we know of!), see here.
How to share your numbers
Is your country, organization, or site missing, or the data needs an update? We need to hear from you! Tell us your latest metrics by posting here or contact @beryl and myself via community@openmrs.org!
(Though RDE is still needed after power/network down-time)
Fun Fact: Anecdotally, we have been hearing for a while that most O3 sites are Point of Care sites - meaning the EMR is being used live-time while healthcare workers are tending to patients. In the distant past, OpenMRS was mostly used for Retrospective Data Entry (RDE), meaning healthcare workers used paper which was later entered (often in a back room) by a Data Entry Clerk. This meant data was often used for reporting purposes, but not as much for guiding real-time decision making by clinicians.
And now, we have hard data from the METS team, showing UgandaEMR+ (an O3 distro) being used more for Point of Care than for RDE: 56% of UgEMR+ sites are using the EMR at the Point of Care, while 44% are using the EMR for RDE. (Source)
This shift to Point-of-Care usage means we have more potential than ever to help healthcare workers and patients!
(Of course this also means our system has to be more responsive than ever, since even a few seconds of system slowness per patient can have a ripple-effect on patient queues. This is a big reason we have had a focus on improving O3 performance over the last 2 years.)
I would add that the Ozone Distro Cambodia, which is basically a Khmer-localized O3 w/ Ozone Analytics, has been used to support NCD care across two provinces of Camobodia. This tallies up to about 160 health centres.
WOW! Thank you Dimitri!! I have updated the Wiki page accordingly, and I’ll edit my posts above now to include both this number and the fact that this volume makes that the 3rd largest O3 implementation in the world right now (that I know of)
@grace this is good news, happy to see this massive adoption of O3. Kindly add to this the 112 sites from Ethiopia. @dagimm feel free to add more details and perhaps share the target for the current fiscal year.
Wow Thank you Eudson, I didn’t realize Ethiohri had scaled that much already! Congratulations to @dagimm and the team at @ICAPEthiopia. I have updaed our metrics wiki page and the post above
