Hello all--
I've finally gotten a chance to write up some documentation for the Program-Specific dashboard functionality I added, as well a the Programs List and Program Status widgets. You can find the documentation here:
https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Context-Specific+Dashboards
https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Patient+Summary+Widget+Documentation
It's not the most complete documentation, but hopefully it's enough to get people started, and I encourage anyone who uses the functionality and feels they can improve the documentation to go ahead and do so... 
Also, note that we are continuing to develop this functionality, and are planning (hopefully within next couple months) to add the ability to manage patient states via the Program Status widget.
Hope others find this helpful!
fyi @ssmusoke
Take care,
Mark