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 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 Cote d'Ivoire Progress

I wanted to take a moment to update you on our progress on the priorities for this upcoming release of OpenELIS in Cote d’Ivoire.  For release of OpenELIS 2.8, we are focused on finalizing functionality for LNSP laboratory based on the validation testing and additional requirements we received from our trip in July.  In addition to that, we have been hard at work on the following additional high priority items:

•       Audit Trail (traceability) of all steps through the workflow, status changes, and values for orders, samples, patients, tests, results, and reports

More on the specifics of the audit trail are written up in several blog posts here:  http://openelis.blogspot.com/search/label/audit-trail    (Your feedback to improve this feature is more than welcome!)

•       System stability improvements, including the elimination of the “it’s not your fault” issues, and an improved standard server build method that will drastically ease and improve the installation of OpenELIS

•       Dynamic selection of reflex test algorithms and tests within the algorithm

•       Non-conformity reporting and workflow improvements

•       Making calculated values display as text rather than as a data entry field

•       Additional analyzer interfaces

•       Updating test catalogs for LNSP and IPCI

•       Updating meta-data for lookup values for LNSP and IPCI

•       Overall usability improvements

•       Text revisions/corrections and bug fixes

We have decided to delay the OpenELIS 2.8 release in order to give us additional time for testing of the finalized features for this release, and to align it better with our plan for training in the last of October/first of November.  We plan to release 2.8 at end of day on Friday, 26^th October.

In order to not delay urgent improvements though, we released OpenELIS 2.7.3 as an interim patch for Retro-CI specifically.  This release addressed the issue with CD3 results not appearing in biological validation after they were accepted by the lab technician.  I wrote a blog post about our troubleshooting of this issue and the resolution with the release:  http://openelis.blogspot.com/2012/09/superstitious-behaviors-in.html

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