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2012-02-13 Weekly Meeting

2012-02-13 Weekly Meeting

Feb 14, 2012

Raxa-JSS Weekly Meeting held on 13th Feb, 2012

Agenda and Notes

Participants:

  • Daniel Pepper

  • Susan Wolfe

  • Surajit Nundy

  • Saptarshi Purkayastha

  • Vijita Aggarwal

  • Gregory Kelleher

  • Nathan Leiby

  • Lawrence Panzarella

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Raxa-JSS Weekly Meeting
Feb 12/13, 2012
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JSS-specific

  • Visit to JSS from from the head of the US-based Association for India's Development, which is keen n supporting the Raxa JSS EMR project through a grant being made possible by a private donor in the US. AID, as a 501(c)3 organization can provide tax breaks to people in the US who want to donate to JSS. 

  • Doctors are loving their iPad 2s. 

    • They've started using them to show patients explanations of diseases using the Visible Body app ( http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/visible-body-for-ipad-2-3d/id446207961?mt=8 ). 

  • Saptarshi Purkayastha has come to JSS this week. He has set up two new routers so tours via Skype or Facetime of the Laboratory and patient department/wards are now possible!! Let us know and we'll set up a time to show you around! 

  • Saptarshi is also helping with a village health program survey, help kick off the Registration module sprint, and install the pharmacy module software (iDART). 

  • JSS is looking for people in the US who can lecture on medical topics to nursing students in Hindi

  • Hard to get people to move to Chhattisgarh, so instead proposing to do lectures by Skype/videoconference 10,000 postcards have been printed in New Delhi to solicit help from doctors within India - Dr. Satish in Florida has led this effort. 

Project-wide

  • Photos of the screenshots from the BARC hospital's EMR in DropBox (JSS EMR --> Photos --> All other --> BARC Hospital Mumbai) 

    • Photos/Screenshots are available for comparison 

    • Difficult UI, doctor complaints -> optimistic about our designs 

  • Blog post by Arjun Venkatraman who visited JSS a few weeks ago: http://mojolab.org/?p=154

  • For developers: A very helpful Sencha forum is located at http://www.sencha.com/forum/ 

  • Responsive, active forum Great progress on the new webspace; thank you Susan and Bernardo! More to come! http://raxa.drupalgardens.com/ 

  • Follow us on Twitter - and tell your friends to do so as well!! We have 150 followers so far and getting more everyday #raxa_jss_emr 

  • We've signed up to Code the Change: http://codethechange.org/projects/2012-02-11-code-jam-projects

    • Unfortunately we didn't make much progress with these tasks at the event this past weekend but now the tasks have been clearly articulated we can find volunteers who might be able to take this up. 

Module-specific

  • Registration: Starting a sprint for the Registration module with ten people signed up 

  • 1st meeting is important - anyone on the sprint should create a fork off of Raxa github. 

    • create pull requetss with pull ID. 

    • Add this to the issue you're assigned to. -> this is the phase for codereviews, crucible -> add any 2 developers (not just Saptarshi or Nathan) to do CR -> after CR complete, commit will be merge into main branch (RaxaJSS) -> After commit, post-commit review (make sure issue is complete, close to issue)

    • Process :

      1. Fork

      2. Commit/review

      3. Post-commit review

      4. Close issue

    • Ideally, 1 issue at a time

    • Share best practices learned from the sprint

    • Same practices should apply through the project


  • UI/UX Meeting yesterday with Kathleen, Susan, Riddhima, Darrian, and Saptarshi. Recording is here: https://raxaemr.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/2064411/UI-UX_Call_11-Feb.mp3

    • Need to lock on certain features which will have a common look/feel 

    • People on call have committed to getting their input on various features 

    • Want reusable widgets from look/feel but also similarity from coding perspective, too

    • Riddhima + Avinash worked on UI/UX for Registration module, which is being sprinted on for next 2 weeks


  • Lab: 

    • latest Lab task flows updated by Nancy: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17629168/Lab/Lab%20Task%20Flows%20V1.5%20copy%202.pdf 

    • Roger (lab coordinator) is back from Ghana as of today -Can view "latest items" in Dropbox to see most recent updates 


  • IVR: Update from Shuro. 

    • Fork off of Motech. already connected to OpenMRS

    • Allows "phone in".

    • We have a server at IIT where people are hacking on this, and will soon provide a phone # to call in to try the system. 


  • CHW: Looking into using MOTECH, which uses CouchDB, ActiveMQ, no intermediate data repository (unlike CommCare) and syncs right into OpenMRS as its primary data store.

    • Offline data storage is plentiful, much "business logic" programmed in.. 

    • It runs on J2ME phones, so written entirely in Java. 

    •  Requires converting their XForms into HTML5/JS forms and little else. 

Some resources for MoTECH: