An Shared Health Record (SHR) hold a subset of a patients health record in order to facilitate sharing of this information between disparate health information systems. This page hold the documentation produced by the Shared Health Record Community group under the OpenHIE project.

For more details about our call that are held twice a month, see: OpenSHR Community Call

Call topics and points for discussion are managed at: https://trello.com/b/prE5M3fh 

Process Overview

As a part of the RHEA project, an HIE has been developed for maternal health in Rwanda. For more information about this implementation see this link. During this implementation, a Shared Health Record (SHR) based on OpenMRS (http://openmrs.org/) was developed. It is expected to work for the pilot implementation of the RHEA project, which is planned to run in a single district of Rwanda; however, it is not known whether this instance and the technology used will scale to a national level.

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