- Does OpenMRS able to support multiple Medical Institutions? For instance, we have a four Clinic and want to have single database and OpenMRS instance for all.
- What is the practical purpose of “Locations” in OpenMRS?
- Is there a connection between provides and locations? This is necessary so that when selecting a branch, only those providers that are connected to this branch have to be shown, and not all providers in the system (at the moment the system works like this).
OpenMRS is a web based applications meaning you can access the same instance from anywhere over the internet or some sort of wide area network.
Sorry I prematurely pressed reply before I completed my post
Patient centric data like Observations, Encounters and Visits are associated to a location to record where they took place but you can use them for other purposes for instance, in the reference application one has to select a location of the site where they are logging in from.
There isn’t a strong tie between providers and locations really, most pages that list providers don’t filter them by location, but one can build a custom user interface that does so if they wanted to.