CHITS in Action

Last Thursday (Nov. 25,2010) we had a meeting with Ms. Marie Irene Sy of the Pasay City Health Office (Lagrosa Health Center) to discuss a few things and see CHITS in action. General Workflow of CHITS in Lagrosa Health Centers Upon arrival of patient at the health center, the health center officer checks if the [...]

A First Look at OpenMRS

OpenMRS is a community-developed, open source, enterprise electronic medical record system platform. As it exists, OpenMRS is already a fully developed medical record system. It is on its 1.7 version. I have tried downloading it and using its demo online http://demo.openmrs.org/openmrs/index.htm. Necessary features for patients’ record tracking are there, and there are lots of Admin [...]

A Meetup w/ Dr. Alvin Marcelo

We consulted Dr. Alvin Marcelo, one of the pioneers of CHITS,  to further broaden our understanding of CHITS. He had the following points. 1. that the current CHITS that you know (LAMP) will soon be replaced with one that runs on an OpenMRS backend. The interface will still be CHITS (forms, workflow, etc) but we [...]

User Authentication

I’ve been working for over a week trying to figure out how to use one of GAE’s Services, the Users.  This provides user authentication through, of course, Google. I thought I was doing wrong since the login page did not looked like the Google login page. I searched and studied different authentication methods such as [...]

Interface

The image below is the home page of our application. This is almost exactly how the original CHITS looks.