TY - JOUR T1 - Emerging Open Source Health Information Business Ecosystems in Resource-Poor Environments: the OpenMRS Experience JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - Dawn Smith AB - OpenMRS is a rapidly growing open source community that supports emerging healthcare environments around the world through the collaborative development of an open source medical record system platform. This article provides a brief history of the project, including how the humble beginnings of the collaborative have grown to unlock business opportunities for indigenous populations and also provide sustainable, scalable, locally supported health information infrastructures. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/403 IS - December 2010 U1 - OpenMRS Dawn Smith is the Project Coordinator for OpenMRS. She completed her Master of Public Health (MPH) degree at Indiana University with a focus in both social and behavioral sciences and international health. In 2007, she worked with AMPATH's Psychosocial Department in Eldoret, Kenya, and in 2008, worked at the Institute of Development Management in Gaborone, Botswana. Dawn is currently in the process of completing the necessary steps to formalize OpenMRS into a non-profit organization. ER -