It was over two years ago that I embarked on creating an open source electronic medical record. Today I have decided to discontinue work on openEPRS. This rise of other open source projects such as Medsphere put openEPRS at a competitive disadvantage. The complexity and scope of building an EMR is beyond the capabilities of [...]
Really nothing to post on except my increasing level of frustration with Rails security plug-ins and my domain model. This shouldn’t be that difficult given: There are multiple clinical facilities Users can belong to more than one facility Users can have different roles at each facility The application supports an HTML interface as well as [...]
It has been two days since I posted an article on auditing data modifications using the Zend Framework. I have recently published a number of other articles on Zend in general. I noticed a recurring statement that forced me to rethink the pursuit of using alternative frameworks for openEPRS: “X is easier with Ruby on [...]
I decided to spruce up the default page for the openEPRS web services application. The application is implemented using the Jersey RI for JSR-311 REST Web Services. While Jersey provides a nice UI for testing your web services, trying to integrate it into the main application was more trouble than it was worth. Since the [...]
I have posted a few screenshots of the openEPRS installer based on the GlassFish IzPack installer created by Julien Ponge. Julien’s work provides the framework for setting up and configuring the application server. The openEPRS application is installed and configured using custom code that implements the GlassFish addon configurator interface. Thanks go to Brian Chan [...]
Initial project architecture diagrams are now available here. Database entity relationship diagrams are available here. Please check these locations for future updates regarding openEPRS.
Screenshots for the project are now available here. This will be the official gallery which will include all new and updated images.
I decided to post a few screenshots of openEPRS using a new interface based on ExtJS. I also replaced the RoR backend with JSR-311 RESTful web services. I moved the project from Ruby to Java as I was spending more time implementing certain functionality in Ruby which was readily available from a number of open [...]