Summer of Code 2008

April 25, 2008

Summer of Code 2008

Woohoo yaaayyyyy … After delayed for a week, Google finally announce the list of accepted students for this year Google Summer of Code and guess what, I’m on the list. Wooohhhhoooo … I was so excited when I saw my name in the list which means I’m accepted as an intern student in OpenMRS for the 2008 Google Summer of Code (GSoC 2008) wooohhoooo yaaayyyy …

Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS) formed in 2004 is an open source medical record system framework for developing countries. For this year GSoC, OpenMRS have so many projects to offer to the students. I’ll be working to Extend Patient Matching Analyzers and Heuristics Support. This blog is dedicated to post any progress that I made on this project.

Right now, I’m still trying to understand current implementation of the patient matching in OpenMRS. My mentor, Shaun Grannis, give me some journals and publications to read in order to understand the matching algorithm. The main idea of the patient matching project is to enable aggregation patient’s data that is scattered in different places with different patient identifier. I think the work will be very interesting and challenging. Burke Mamlin, another mentor in OpenMRS, said that students will have fun working for OpenMRS and I think he’s right. The community is really fun and full of friendly people.

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