Modeling Patient & Clinical Data in Bahmni (Training)

Objective

At the heart of any enterprise electronic medical record system lies a robust, explicit representation of how care information is stored. The structure of this data model dictates the scalability and flexibility of a system. This training will provide a detailed overview of the most important Bahmni data model entities (like Patient, Visit, Encounters, Concepts) and underlying Database schema. This will enabled users to understand the richness associated with a Patient and Clinical Data.

Contents

1. Patient Associated Data Model (MySQL): DB Tables like patient, patient_identifier, person, person_name, person_attribute_type, person_attribute, person_address
2. Clinical Terminology as Concepts: Concept, concept_name.
3. Visits and Storing Clinical Data as Observations: Obs, encounter, encounter_type, visit, visit_type,
4. Patient Identifier Tables: idgen_identifier_source, idgen_seq_id_gen
5. Creating Observations

Training Video

Data Model & Tables Training Video (Bahmni) (1 hour)

OpenMRS Data Model Overview by Ellen Bell (PIH) (35 mins)