OpenEMR Success Stories

Overview

Plan to place clinic success stories here. Can be entries such as:

• A review type entry (a snapshot in time) on this page
• A link to an article/blog/sourceforge review/case study entry
• A link to a blog that describes the deployment over time

We are a start-up in the Bay Area of California called MediGrail LLC. We think of our company having a profit and a non-profit side. The OpenEMR implementation described below is a part of the latter.

*  Time-frame December 2011 to January 2012
*  Location Western, rural Kenya and the government facility is called Siaya District Hospital
*  Contact DR OMOTO JACKTON, TEL +254 -721-761484
*  Address  MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT, SIAYA DISTRICT HOSPITAL, P. O. BOX 144 SIAYA, KENYA, Postal Code 40600
*  Equipment  
*  An Intel Atom Supermicro server with 4 GB RAM and a 32 GB SSD drive which is the firewall and a Linux boot
server - running pfSense (pfsense.org)
*  An Intel Atom Supermicro server with 4 GB RAM and a 2 TB drive which is the file server, IM server and
future inter-department phone switch running on Ubuntu Linux and mounting user directories via sshfs.
*  Intel Xeon Sun server with 6 GB RAM and two drives which is the application server during the day and
backup server at night. The application is ofcourse OpenEMR (open-emr.org) and bacula.org for backups. 
*  The backbone is provided by HP Procurve 9078a Gigabit switches connected via Fiber Optic cables
*  Currently 40 Panasonic toughbook laptops
*  Inverting Opti-ups UPS and APC UPS