Opal is not a Patient Activity List
We'd love you to get involved by using what we make, reporting bugs/suggesting improvements, and fixing bugs/making improvements. Please refer to the CONTRIBUTING file.
Opal is an open (open governance + open source) commercial NHS IT product by Open Health Care UK
http://opal.openhealthcare.org.uk
Opal aims to solve the patient list problem.
The patient list problem is this: Doctors need ready access to the core information needed to look after their patients such as who their patients are and where they are, what's wrong with them, what the plan is, and what progress has been made against the plan.... The widespread, but suboptimal, solution to this problem is to use a table in a Microsoft Word Document.
NHS Hack Day 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x1yZQP4eoA
Smart Ward 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxS0q1NJwZY
WARNING: OPAL is under rapid, active development to become a framework for building Patient List type applications rather than an application. e.g. at this stage the codebase is likely to be significantly refactored to allow multiple customised instances. Anyone looking to adapt OPAL to their specific ward should get in touch with the friendly OPals (Opal Steering group) !
- We're very friendly
- We can save you headaches
- We are absolutely committed to adapting OPAL to new clinical settings
- We can help getting improvements rolled into OPAL core so that the rest of the community can benefit
Forking at this point going to cause a lot of extra work if you want to continue benefiting from the features, bug & security fixes from upstream - seriously, come chat to us about it. In the future the process and documentation for that kind of customisation will be freely available. (Yay!)
Roadmap: https://github.com/openhealthcare/opal/wiki/Roadmap
Discussion List: https://groups.google.com/forum/?ohc-dev#!forum/ohc-opal
Access: availability of the latest source code, developer support mechanisms, public roadmap, and transparency of decision-making
Development: the ability of developers to influence the content and direction of the project
Derivatives: the ability for developers to create and distribute derivatives of the source code in the form of spin-off� projects, handsets or applications.
Community: a community structure that does not discriminate between developers
GNU Affero GPLv3
http://www.openhealthcare.org.uk
https://groups.google.com/forum/?ohc-dev#!forum/ohc-opal
channel #ohc_dev on freenode
A screencast and demo are here http://opal.openhealthcare.org.uk