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OpenMRS history
OpenMRS company history timeline
In September 2004, Paul and Burke met Hamish at the World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MedInfo) conference in San Francisco.
One of OpenMRS' birthplaces – Moi University Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya (2004)
By the summer of 2005 the development team had a rough version of the software ready for a presentation in Kenya, where they received constructive feedback from other developers about how to better the software.
On February 14, 2006 the team had a stable version of OpenMRS running in Kenya as an unofficial version 1.0. release.
The South African MRC first switched on the system at Richmond Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal at the end of 2006.
In an effort to broaden participation in the project around the world, OpenMRS began participating in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program in 2007.
In April 2008, the OpenMRS team was contacted by the members of the OpenELIS open-source project.
At the close of 2011, the OpenMRS community is preparing to launch an independent not-for-profit organization to help support the project's needs as it grows.
Version 2.0 of the software, which featured a new user interface, was released on February 26, 2014.
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| Company name | Founded date | Revenue | Employee size | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gluster | 2005 | $4.7M | 60 | - |
| Global Healthcare IT | 2000 | $5.2M | 125 | - |
| Regenstrief Institute | 1969 | $50.0M | 100 | 1 |
| Jahnel Group | 2009 | $2.5M | 104 | 35 |
| Intellectsoft | 2007 | $9.1M | 100 | - |
| Sparity | 2010 | $1.5M | 50 | - |
| Altoros | 2001 | $326.4M | 251 | - |
| SysOne | 1967 | $22.0M | 168 | - |
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