Referring large numbers of students with patients

[maurya (Sri Maurya Kummamuru)]

Hello @hossam,

I would want to point out some points:

• OpenMRS supports providers and patients so, handling many providers wont be an issue.
• You need to host OpenMRS on a public IP to be accessible by providers sitting in their home.
• Presently, there is no restriction for a provider and patient. Meaning if a provider is in the system and there is a patient in the system, the provider can access the patient record - So to meet your need of giving access of patient to the provider you only need to give the patient id that is generated/entered while entering patient details into the system. This will allow the provider to search for the patient.
• If you don’t want a patient to be accessible to a provider not treating the patient directly then OpenMRS does not support this presently but, work is being done to support this as mentioned in this talk post:

Did you miss today's design forum on Relationship-Based Access Control for OpenMRS? No worries!

OpenMRS uses Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) where privileges & roles authorize access to service methods. You can restrict who can access a method, but you can’t control which data can be seen by someone with access to the method. Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC) provides access control to specific instances of data. Watch @szrrizvi’s presentation about Relationship-Based Access Control for OpenMRS: Also see’s @szrrizvi’s earlier post on the topic: