OpenELIS Vietnam Progress Update

Here's an update of our progress on the development of the requirements for the Phase I milestone of OpenELIS in Vietnam.  The first two major foci of the Phase I deliverables are now at the point where they are ready to be shared with project stakeholders.  A development/demo site has been installed at the following URL:

https://openelis-dev.cirg.washington.edu/VN_APHLOpenElis/

(For access credentials, contact Jim Sibley)

The Phase I deliverables that are featured in this instance of the application are:

• Inclusion of batch specimen entry screen, allowing quick data entry for multiple specimens

• Inclusion of label printing functionality both outside and within specimen entry screens

The remaining Phase I deliverable is still currently under development:

• Modifications to individual specimen entry, i.e. limiting data entry screen to one page, allowing specimen rejection during specimen entry, etc.

Further, the effort to map the Vietnam test catalog to LOINC is continuing and very close to being complete.  Also, the deployment guide for OpenELIS Vietnam has been updated with a lot more content thanks to the diligent work of Reshma Kakkar.

OpenELIS Vietnam Progress Update

Here's an update of our progress on the development of the requirements for the Phase I milestone of OpenELIS in Vietnam.  As a reminder, the focus of the Phase I deliverables is in these three areas:

1. Inclusion of batch specimen entry screen, allowing quick data entry for multiple specimens
2. Inclusion of label printing functionality both outside and within specimen entry screens
3. Modifications to individual specimen entry, i.e. limiting data entry screen to one page, allowing specimen rejection during specimen entry, etc.

Integration of the first two of these goals is still continuing and is close to completion.  A demo site will soon be available showing off these new features.

Additionally, considerable work has been accomplished on getting the Vietnam test catalog completed and mapped to LOINC (with many thanks to Jerry Sable for his expertise and contributions).  It will soon be ready for integration into the Vietnam version of OpenELIS.

Finally, initial steps have been taken in development of a deployment guide for OpenELIS in Vietnam. A rough outline has been put together and discussions around content have begun.

OpenELIS Global Release 3.3

It is my pleasure to inform you that we released version 3.3 of OpenELIS for production on Friday September 6, 2013. This release comes after a successful acceptance testing process during which OpenELIS end users in country were giving the responsibility to assure that the issues/features/bugs were satisfactorily resolved in the new version of OpenELIS. We are convinced that this new testing process has contributed to reach a higher level of satisfaction among the users. We also believe that the engagement of in-country users in this testing process is a critical step along the path to transition to in-country partners.

This release includes the following:

OpenELIS Haïti

• Test requests can now be sent from iSanté. There is a space on the sample entry for the order number and the ability to assign sample types for tests which can be done on more than one sample type.
• The patient ST number or national ID number is required for tests referred from iSanté.
• Tests that have been referred out will only show the referred out test on the patient report.
• Patient reports have been modified.  The column for referred out and abnormal results has been removed and a column for the collection date and time has been added. Results that fall outside the normal range will appear in bold.
• Workplans have been modified.  There is now a space for the results and the technicians signature.

OpenELIS Côte d’Ivoire

• Added received time to sample intake forms.
• Added usage report.

All

• Bug fixes
• Supervisor signature and date field have been added to the non-conformity report. This is a configurable option. 
• Referral page – The page has been better organized to make it clear what information is from the host lab and what information is from the lab to which the test has been referred.
• Added ability for the site to set the accession number prefix when the application is installed.
  
• Added validation backlog report.
• Add fields for provider information on non-conformity page.
• If no tests are available for a sample type during sample entry the user will be notified and the sample type removed from sample entry.
• Improved layout in admin section.
• Sample collection has been added as a place where non-conformity events can be detected. This is a configurable action.
• User manuals have been updated.

The release is available via the OpenELIS Global GitHub repository:

https://github.com/openelisglobal/openelisglobal-core/releases/tag/oe3.3

Please send us any feedback you may have about the release.

OpenELIS Vietnam Progress

Here's an update of our progress on the development of the requirements for the Phase I milestone of OpenELIS in Vietnam.  The focus of the Phase I deliverables is in these three areas:

1. Inclusion of batch specimen entry screen, allowing quick data entry for multiple specimens
   
2. Inclusion of label printing functionality both outside and within specimen entry screens
3. Modifications to individual specimen entry, i.e. limiting data entry screen to one page, allowing specimen rejection during specimen entry, etc.

Development of the first two of these goals is mostly complete at this time, although there is still work required to integrate the new functionality into the existing code.  The third goal, individual specimen entry modifications, has not been started yet, but some of the work done for the batch specimen entry will be directly reusable for individual specimen entry, i.e. specimen rejection functionality.

Once the batch specimen entry and label printing functionality are fully integrated, we will make a demo version of the code available so that we can start collecting feedback on the progress made so far.

We will attempt to make regular progress updates on this blog fortnightly to keep everyone informed on the development status.

OpenELIS Global Release 3.2

This release includes the following:

We are pleased to announce the release of OpenELIS Global version 3.2.

OpenELIS Haiti

• Add specimen collection date/time and specimen receive time to sample entry since it is a SLMTA requirement
• Add ability to specify the test bench at sample entry time
• A warning message will occur if  a patient report is generated using “patient ID” and that there is more than one patient ID which matches

Open ELIS Cote d’Ivoire

• Côte d’Ivoire regional lab instance was created
• Collection and reception time were added to both the intake forms and reports
• The time of reception, subject no, date of next visit were added to workplan
• Add filter to results screen to search for "en cours" as status
• Add ability to search for patient by lab number, on both sample entry and patient screen
• Add site code field to sample entry (free text)
• Add collection time and received time to both sample entry and to confirmation entry screen

All

• Bug fixes
• A new report, named validation backlog, showing the tests waiting for validation in each test section was created. The purpose of this report is to save the supervisor from having to click through each validation screen. 
• It is now possible to accept a result even if there are no results or the result has not changed during the validation. A checkbox was provided to force the result to technical acceptance.
• The rejection flag on the result entry form as an indicator that a result has been rejected during validation  is now turn on as default.  It can be turned off in the administration panel.
• The association of tests with a panel is tracked.  If the panel is selected then those tests are associated with the panel.  If the tests are selected without selecting the panel then they are not associated with the panel.

The release note are available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zz0yZwmfslnhKsOD_jIpVKQo2UyXHjH5rEgLOqwWQJ8/edit?usp=sharing 

Please send us any feedback you may have about the release.

Growing Our Development Community - Côte D’Ivoire

The OpenELIS development community has two new members! Dr. Constant Kone and Mr. Kamalan Fourier came from Côte D’Ivoire for a month-long intensive training on developing and implementing OpenELIS.

Their training will continue as they help launch OpenELIS at Institut Pasteur in Abidjan over the coming months. Read more about their experience and future plans on the I-TECH News site.

OpenELIS Global Release 2.8.1

The latest OpenELIS release 2.8.1 now available. This release includes the following: 

• Virology analyzer bug fix: Some workflows resulted in the analyzer DNA PCR test being canceled 
• Updated ELISA algorithm (reflex test) for Serology: The Genie II, Western Blot, P24, and Bioline tests were deactivated and replaced by Innolia 
• Viral Load formatting updated to match specifications from RetroCI 
• Result Validation bug fix: Search by lab no. was not working in result validation if there was only one result for the lab no.

Please send us any feedback you may have about the release.