A talk on how Open Source software can make an impact in rural & resource constrained hospitals in India and Africa. I cover JSS, SEARCH and Ebola situation, and how Open Source software like Bahmni, OpenMRS and others are helping. This is based on my experience working on Bahmni team at ThoughtWorks. This slide was presented at GIDS, Bangalore (Apr 2015).

1. Humanitarian Open Source
Software
Gurpreet Luthra, Lead Consultant

2. Agenda
• Humanitarian Open Source Software
• JSS Hospital
• Bahmni
• SEARCH Hospital
• Ebola & OpenMRS
• Further References

3. About Me - Gurpreet Luthra
• 13+ years, Developer & Lead Consultant
• Java/Scala/Ruby/Web/Open-Source
• Twitter: _zenx_

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6. http://www.jssbilaspur.org/about/people.phpThe People:

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http://www.tompietrasik.com/2013/01/07/jss-india-public-healthcare-film/

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http://www.tompietrasik.com/2013/01/07/jss-india-public-healthcare-film/

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http://www.tompietrasik.com/2013/01/07/jss-india-public-healthcare-film/

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http://www.bahmni.org/developer/

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Bahmni - Screenshots

13. Challenges of Building
Software for JSS
• On-site BAs
• Internet for Deployment?
• Agile without Showcases?
• Software as a bottleneck?
• What if the system breaks down? Backup?
• UX Challenges
• Low Cost Devices
• Training non-Windows people
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First Deployment - Jun 2013

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http://www.thoughtworks.com/clients/jss

16. SEARCH Hospital
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23. SEARCH
• Dr Abhay Bang and his wife
Dr Rani Bang
• Dec 1985
• 50% drop in Infant
Mortality Rate
• Masters in Public Health
from John Hopkins
University
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24. SEARCH
• Hospital Services
• Women’s Health
• Child and Neonatal Health
• Alcohol Prevention & De-addiction
• Research on Rural and Tribal Health care
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25. SEARCH
• S.E.A.R.C.H: Society for Education, Action
and Research in Community Health
• 25,000 patients each year
• 20 bed indoor facility
• 450+ surgeries each year (special camps)
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26. SEARCH
• Excel Based Registration
since 2011
• 65000 rows
• Research
• Study & Control Areas
• Surveys
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27. 3+ Months Pre-deployment
• Made Bahmni customizable (not just JSS!)
• Lots of Jasper Reports
• Patient Registration Card
• Migration Scripts
• Krishna font transformer
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Krishna Font

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https://github.com/Bhamni/bahmni-java-utils/blob/master/font-transformer/src/test/java/org/bahmni/fonttransform/
KrishnaFontTransformerTest.java

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20 Day Deployment

33. • Mobile !?
• Electricity !?
• Internet !?
• LAN !?
• Data Errors
• Krishna Font to
Unicode Errors
• Linux !?
• Backups !?
• 32 bit machine?
• Remote Support?

34. Learnings
• Local YUM Repo
• Carry QA Database
• Scripts for one click Backup
and Deploy
• Infra skills
• Local Language support (non-
trivial)
• Carry everything! (keyboards,
extension chords, network
cables, stickies, boards, etc)
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• Real System, Real Feedback
• Team Viewer, AirDroid
• Migrations on SSD / Vagrant
• Single view of system status
• Daily Dairy
• Local Stackoverflow??
• Training/Backup Laptop

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36. Ebola - Sierra Leone
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Dr David Walton

37. Ebola - Sierra Leone
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38. Ebola - Sierra Leone
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39. Ebola - Sierra Leone
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https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/projects/Ebola

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https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Getting+Started+as+a+Developer
Get Started!

42. http://colourmyworld.me/2014/07/05/quote-of-the-dayjune-052014/

43. Further References
• http://www.thoughtworks.com/global-health
• http://www.thoughtworks.com/clients/jss
• http://www.bahmni.org/
• http://www.jssbilaspur.org/
• https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Getting
+Started+as+a+Developer
• http://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/
unique-production-issue-jss

44. Gurpreet Luthra
http://techie-notebook.blogspot.com
_zenx_

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