Bahmni
| Developer(s) | ThoughtWorks |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 0.90-308
/ February 2018[1] |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | JavaScript, Java, Python |
| Engine | |
| Operating system | CentOS |
| Type | Hospital Information System |
| License | AGPL |
| Website | www |
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Bahmni is a distribution of OpenMRS which is meant to be generally applicable across different hospitals and large clinics. Its target is to provide a comprehensive EMR and HIS for low-resource environments.[2] Thus it bundles various open-source projects, i.e. OpenMRS, Odoo, OpenELIS, and DCM4CHE, into a customizable software distribution.
Features
Clinical service
- Patient registration, e.g. with demographic data and capturing of vitals
- Patient enrollment to treatment Programs for diseases like HIV or other special interventions
- Dashboard with overview over medical records
- Medical records for observations, diagnosis, consultation notes, lab orders, medications and bacteriology samples
- Option to create customized forms
- Ward management: admission and discharge of inpatients
- Upload of radiology images and patient documents
- Report generation, e.g. for visits, laboratory services and smoking history
Laboratory
- Overview over samples to collect
- Form to enter results of e.g. blood, urine or Mantoux tests
- Support for result validation workflow
- Printing and synchronization of the results to the Clinical Service
- Various features for result search and reporting
Stock Inventory & Billing
- Integration of Odoo (pka. OpenERP), e.g. for accounting and warehouse management.
Offline support via Bahmni Connect
- Offline patient registration, observation forms and consultation notes
- Observation forms are customizable
- 2-way-synchronization with the online server once there is a network connection
- A Progressive Web App and an Android app are supported as clients
Radiology
- Integration of dcm4che which supports the DICOM standard for the management of medical images
Reference implementations
The Bahmni website lists the following hospitals as reference implementations:[3]
| Hospital | Location |
|---|---|
| Jan Swasthya Sahyog | Bilaspur, India |
| Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health | Gadchiroli, India |
| Lok Biradari Prakalp | Gadchiroli, India |
| Bayalpata Govt. Hospital, Possible Health | Achham, Nepal |
| Dholaka Govt. Hospital, Possible Health | Charikot, Nepal |
| Kaliganj Upazilla Hospital | Kaliganj, Bangladesh |
| Gazipur District Hospital | Gazipur, Bangladesh |
| Ashwini Gudalur Adivasi Hospital | Gudalur, India[disambiguation needed] |
| Wellbody Alliance Clinic | Kono, Sierra Leone |
| Cure Uganda | Mbale, Uganda |
Project milestones
- November 2012: The project started as a collaboration between the non-profit society Jan Swasthya Sahyog (JSS) and the software development consultancy ThoughtWorks.[4]
- February 2013: Creation of the “Bahmni” organization at GitHub.[5]
- March 2014: The Confluence Wiki for the official documentation was created.[6]
- August 2016: There are ten total Bahmni implementations; five in India, two in Nepal, two in Bangladesh and one in Sierra Leone.[7]
Architecture
As described above, the core idea of Bahmni is to integrate various open source systems, e.g. OpenMRS, Odoo, OpenELIS and DCM4CHEE. The clients can access the application by logging into the respective tools.
At the center of the software system is OpenMRS, which is a Java/Spring application running on a Tomcat server and using MySQL for data-storage. The Bahmni Web component, an AngularJS application delivered by an Apache HTTP server, uses OpenMRS as its backend and communicates with it via synchronous HTTP calls. In order to support the functionality required by Bahmni a number of modules were added to OpenMRS in order to extend its feature set and provide additional REST endpoints.
All other components are asynchronously notified about changes via Atom feed connectors. The data entered there is also synchronized back the same way.
Development
The Bahmni project is primarily developed and maintained by ThoughtWorks. For the communication with the user community and external contributors, the OpenMRS forum is being used[8]. The project management is done in the Jira ticket tracker[9].
See also
References
- ↑ "All Bahmni Releases". bahmni.atlassian.net. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ↑ "Bahmni Distribution". wiki.openmrs.org.
- ↑ "Implementations". bahmni.org.
- ↑ "Bahmni Documentation Wiki". bahmni.atlassian.net.
- ↑ "Bahmni Organization Details". api.github.com.
- ↑ "Bahmni Documentation Wiki". bahmni.atlassian.net.
- ↑ "FAQ". bahmni.org.
- ↑ "Latest Bahmni topics - OpenMRS Talk". talk.openmrs.org. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
- ↑ "Bahmni - JIRA". bahmni.atlassian.net. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
Further reading
- Paper in JMIR Informatics: Open-Source Electronic Health Record Systems for Low-Resource Settings: Systematic Review. Assel Syzdykova et. al. JMIR Med Inform 2017;5(4):e44 DOI: 10.2196/medinform.8131
- Paper in Journal of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth: Customization of OpenMRS for Leishmaniasis Research and Treatment Center in Ethiopia. Assel Syzdykova et. al. 2017;5.
- Paper in Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics: Design and implementation of an affordable, public sector electronic medical record in rural Nepal. Anant Raut et. al. 2017;24(2):186–195.
- Video on YouTube: Fighting Tuberculosis with Open-Source Tech. Doctors without Borders. July 13, 2017
- Blog post on Open Health News: Obama and Biden Blast EHR Vendors for Data Blocking. January 19, 2017
- Blog post on Open Health News: Team Bahmni at the OpenMRS Worldwide Summit. March 18, 2016
- Blog post on Health Affairs: Building Health Care Systems In Post-Earthquake, Post-Constitution Nepal. Duncan Maru, SP Kalaunee, and Shanta Bahadur Shrestha. April 14, 2016
- Blog post from PossibleHealth: Digitizing Healthcare In Rural Nepal. Why Having an Electronic Medical Record Matters. March 10, 2015
- Mentioning as OpenMRS distribution by OpenMRS Inc.: OpenMRS Annual Report 2016, p. 13, OpenMRS Inc., March 2017
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