iCareConnec+ Platform

Built on top of OpenMRS, an Open source Medical Records System and a Global Public Good. iCareConnec+ platform takes advantage of System and the global community support provided around the OpenMRS.

The platform expose APIs for missing services like Billing, Inventory, Laboratory Process etc. The extensive APIs for Billing, Laboratory and Invotory services have made the platform to be able to pruduce EMR meeting Tanzania and African countries EMRs Systems standards, laboratory system standard, pharmacy based or point of sell systems

Components of the platform

iCareConnec+ platform offers the following major module

Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)

iCareConnec+ platform was built with the aim of coming up with EMRs Solution. This is the default feature of the platform.

Laboratory Information System

iCareConnec+ has been able to produce Laboratory Information System for the Tanzania National Public Health Laboratory.

Pharmacy Information System

The comprehensive Store/Inventory management and dispensing has made it possible for the platform to support Pharmacy based Information System.

Prerequisites - Development

1. NodeJs (10 or higher)
2. npm (6.4.0 or higher), can be installed by running apt install npm
3. git, can be installed by running apt install git

Setup

Clone repository

 git clone https://github.com/udsm-dhis2-lab/icare.git

Navigate to application root folder

cd icare/ui

Install all required dependencies for the app

npm install

Development server

Duplicate proxy-config.example.json and rename the copied file to proxy-config.json

Copy the following and paste it to the file proxy-config.json

{
  "/": {
    "target":"https://icare.dhis2.udsm.ac.tz",
    "secure": "false",
    "changeOrigin": "true"
  }
}

Start the development server

npm start

Navigate to http://localhost:4200

Build

After making the changes to the backend we build the application so that the omod contains the backend changes by following the steps below:

Navigate to application root folder

cd omods/core

Run the following command to build the application

mvn clean package -DskipTests

Upload the omod to openmrs.

Running unit tests

Running end-to-end tests

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