Making Progress!
After almost a week of being stalled, I’m finally making good progress on OpenMRS. The problem turned out to be a stupid one: Corrupted files that I had downloaded from the OpenMRS site. Once I got onto the forums, the very responsive developers there were able to help me figure out the problem.
Geek details after the jump.
With a faster internet connection, this problem may not have come up at all. If it had, it probably would have taken less than half a day to figure out. I credit two things with getting me through this infuriating bottleneck. First, Global Strategies lent me the wireless card that will be installed at the hospital when I leave. It’s no broadband, but at 30Kb/s-80Kb/s, it’s a several times faster than the shared connections that are otherwise available (plus, I can work from the house, at night.) Second, I found the IRC channel where the OpenMRS developers and admins hang out.
Next up: actually translating all the paper forms that the clinic uses, here, into digital ones. Unfortunately, creating these in OpenOffice is still a little iffy, and I don’t have access to a copy of Microsoft Office 2007 to do it with InfoPath. At least I know where to ask questions, now.
Related Posts:
- OpenEMR and OpenMRS (September, 2007)
- Bloody Effing Hell (September, 2007)
- Neal Lesh: OpenMRS, Information Systems for Medicine in the Developing World (November, 2007)
- Live from Goma (August, 2007)
- Work Update (September, 2007)
September 13th, 2007 at 8:26 am
My least favorite kind of technical problem, like breaking your brain on a riddle and then being told “oops, wait, I said that wrong”. Congrats on getting through it.