Published on in Vol 6, No 1 (2014):

OpenESSENCE:  Disease Surveillance through Medical Record System Integration with OpenMRS

OpenESSENCE: Disease Surveillance through Medical Record System Integration with OpenMRS

OpenESSENCE: Disease Surveillance through Medical Record System Integration with OpenMRS

Authors of this article:

Charles Hodanics1
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By pairing an open source medical record system, OpenMRS, with the Suite for Automated Global Electronic bioSurveillance (SAGES) disease surveillance tool, OpenESSENCE (OE), we have prototyped an open source solution for passive disease and program surveillance using an active medical record system.