Hello Community!
I would like to share with you some of the modules we’ve made for Connect for Life distribution. They ware made for CfL, but with some effort they could be used by any OpenMRS distribution.
I would like to know what do you think about them, are these interesting for you, would it be something that you could use in your distributions, maybe even something which could be included in the OpenMRS Ref app?
We really would like to make them as easy to integrate as possible.
SMS module
It is mostly an API module, which can connect to most SMS/WhatsApp/… service providers. We’ve been using it to send SMS and WhatsApp messages over world-wide providers like https://www.vonage.com/, https://turn.io/ and local providers like Rwanda’s based https://www.fdibiz.com/.
It provides a layer between between OpenMRS modules and service provider API. You would write your code against SMS module, and later when deploying a distribution, you would configure SMS to talk with a provider. The configuration can be changed during runtime, you can switch provider without code modifications or system restarts. The solution is contained within-in the module.
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Messages module
The intention of the messages module is to facilitate building Message Services within OpenMRS. A message service is something like Visit Reminder, Welcome message sent for every new Patient, Health Tips sent every week for some period, Pill Reminders etc
The module combines Java utilities to configure such services and UI to fine-tune them.
ETL Lite module
The ETL Lite module allows to connect OpenMRS to any external DB for data pulling. It uses Velocity scripts to transform and load data into OpenMRS. Allows to schedule the “pull” for periodic synchronization. We’ve been using it to pull patients and their planned visits from a 3rd party system.
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