2012-02-06 Weekly Meeting

Raxa-JSS Weekly Meeting held on 6th Feb, 2012

Agenda and Notes

Attendees:

  • Nathan Leiby (Seattle, WA, USA)
  • Daniel Pepper (enroute to Bilaspur on train somewhere in Maharashtra, India)
  • Surajit Nundy (Delhi, India)
  • Bhushan (Virginia, USA)
  • Judy Wawira (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)

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Raxa-JSS Weekly Meeting
Feb 05/06, 2012
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JSS-related updates:

  • Fantastic pharmacy pictogram designs are now uploaded to DropBox
  • Acquired equipment: two new routers that will be installed this week so we can give a tour to people who want to see a larger view of JSS
  • Put up recruitment posters at one of the largest teaching hospital in Bombay

Raxa JSS EMR-related project-wide updates:

  • Mapping interface - Nathan defined a need for mapping interfaces.
  • Have a look at our atlassian OnDemand instance here: https://raxaemr.atlassian.net
  • Creating a new website, as well, for our public apperance
  • Two additional potential summer interns for the summer (from U W)
  • We have over 110 people on our shared DropBox folder and over 100 followers on Twitter
  • We gave a Raxa JSS EMR presentation to the OpenMRS community (Shuro can fill in)
  • we are point-of-care
  • we would interface with lots of their web APIs, hopefully improve those
  • how to make our project not just for JSS. how can others build upon it? how to be more generic?

Google Summer of Code progress (Saptarshi)

  • just announced for 2012 http://code.google.com/soc/
  • looking for mentors and sub-mentor (backup) from people already involved on the project
  • Paul Biodich (head of OpenMRS) is hoping to get back to us soon about their plans. May be able to share some of their spots with us, else, will need to apply on our own.
  • Great conf call with the lead developer of the world's foremost open source patient interactive software, Indivo
  • Shuro + Daniel Pepper spoke to Daniel Haas, lead developer of Indivo
  • We're starting to spec out the "patient-facing" module. Our patients might be less educated, low access to computers, low literacy
  • Google Health, Microsoft Health Vault (private) vs Indivo (open-source). Give people access to their medical records
  • Indivo currently in use a Boston Children's hospital
  • Important security and privacy
  • Plan to continue this collaboration, adapting on learnings of Indivo

A clearer articulation of coding conventions

  • Sencha + ExtJS4
  • Sample apps in our GitHub repository
  • More definitive statement tba on coding conventions
  • github ... forking and commiting ... all off of the main branch?

Module-specific updates:

  • Lab: great progress; while not a conf call per se, we did make great progress with a series of decisions on which roles / users to make wireframe for.
  • UI/UX team: should have a call this coming week.
  • getting copies of where people are up to with their designs
  • compiled a list of where people needed to find commonality (registration + lab)
  • do we have resident development expert on Sencha (Saptarshi, Shuro, and Nathan)
  • which widgets that we can / cannot use
  • what are implications for non-touch interface
  • http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/ <-- Sencha Touch 2.0 for the touch interface
  • http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/ <-- ExtJS4 for the desktop interface
  • Screener: Bhushan
  • UI/UX developer working on screens for screener
  • very important to build some basic screens to motivate developers
  • Registration: module to be implemented at JSS in near future ( This is a new and exciting chapter in the evolution of health information systems!!)
  • OPD: Vinay (great new designs from Darrian)
  • CHW: Greg or Judy update
  • Judy, Naval, and Greg are active. Others are busy or on vacation.
  • Working on a task manager for community health workers
  • Would like to do a demo in about 2 weeks (Feb 19th)
  • IVR: update from Bhiksha or Shuro