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	'''OpenELIS''' ~~(aka '''OpenELIS Global''')~~ is a free open-source [[laboratory information system]] (LIS) designed to act as a "software and business process framework for the robust functioning of [[Public health informatics\|public health]] laboratories."<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://sites.google.com/site/openelisglobal/history \|title=History - OpenELIS Global \|publisher=University of Washington I-TECH \|accessdate=27 April 2012}}</ref> OpenELIS originally began as an open-source software project with numerous important collaborations, with contributions coming heavily from the Minnesota State Public Health Laboratory and the University of Iowa. The larger international influence of collaborators such as the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), the U.S. [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC), and the University of Washington's International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH) later spread the OpenELIS technology (in the form of separate branches of the software) to other parts of the world, including Vietnam, Haiti, and Côte d'Ivoire. This software has since evolved, having been rewritten in Java Spring, with new technology and features being added.		'''OpenELIS''' is a free open-source [[laboratory information system]] (LIS) designed to act as a "software and business process framework for the robust functioning of [[Public health informatics\|public health]] laboratories."<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://sites.google.com/site/openelisglobal/history \|title=History - OpenELIS Global \|publisher=University of Washington I-TECH \|accessdate=27 April 2012}}</ref> OpenELIS originally began as an open-source software project with numerous important collaborations, with contributions coming heavily from the Minnesota State Public Health Laboratory and the University of Iowa. The larger international influence of collaborators such as the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), the U.S. [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC), and the University of Washington's International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH) later spread the OpenELIS technology (in the form of separate branches of the software) to other parts of the world, including Vietnam, Haiti, and Côte d'Ivoire. This software has since evolved, having been rewritten in Java Spring, with new technology and features being added.

	==Product history==		==Product history==
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	Meanwhile years of work at the University of Iowa were culminating in a beta test of their OpenELIS software in the summer of 2011, eventually leading to a January 1, 2012 deployment of version 2.0 of the software at the University's State Hygienic Laboratory.<ref name="SHL1" /><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://openelis.shl.uiowa.edu/?q=node/1 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110627045508/http://openelis.shl.uiowa.edu/?q=node/1 \|title=OpenELIS Version 2 \|publisher=State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa \|date=3 January 2012 \|archivedate=27 June 2011 \|accessdate=28 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.shl.uiowa.edu/results/index.xml \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320023138/http://www.shl.uiowa.edu/results/index.xml \|title=Your Test Results \|publisher=State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa \|date=1 January 2012 \|archivedate=20 March 2012 \|accessdate=28 March 2022}}</ref> Version 1.6.0 of the Vietnam branch was released on February 20, 2012.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://vietnamlis.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/update-release-1-6-0/ \|title=Update Release 1.6.0 \|publisher=Clinical Informatics Research Group at the University of Washington \|date=20 February 2012 \|accessdate=27 March 2012}}</ref>		Meanwhile years of work at the University of Iowa were culminating in a beta test of their OpenELIS software in the summer of 2011, eventually leading to a January 1, 2012 deployment of version 2.0 of the software at the University's State Hygienic Laboratory.<ref name="SHL1" /><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://openelis.shl.uiowa.edu/?q=node/1 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110627045508/http://openelis.shl.uiowa.edu/?q=node/1 \|title=OpenELIS Version 2 \|publisher=State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa \|date=3 January 2012 \|archivedate=27 June 2011 \|accessdate=28 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.shl.uiowa.edu/results/index.xml \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320023138/http://www.shl.uiowa.edu/results/index.xml \|title=Your Test Results \|publisher=State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa \|date=1 January 2012 \|archivedate=20 March 2012 \|accessdate=28 March 2022}}</ref> Version 1.6.0 of the Vietnam branch was released on February 20, 2012.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://vietnamlis.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/update-release-1-6-0/ \|title=Update Release 1.6.0 \|publisher=Clinical Informatics Research Group at the University of Washington \|date=20 February 2012 \|accessdate=27 March 2012}}</ref>

	~~===Public open-source release and beyond===~~

	In 2012, the University of Washington I-TECH began hosting "OpenELIS Global" (now referred to as an Enterprise Laboratory Information System), an international version of the OpenELIS software. The first public open-source release of the software was with version 2.4 on February 29, 2012<ref name="2.4Notes" />, followed by a 2.5 release on March 30.<ref name="2.5Notes">{{cite web \|url=https://sites.google.com/site/openelisglobal/openelis-global-2-5-release-notes \|title=OpenELIS Global 2.5 Release Notes \|publisher=University of Washington I-TECH \|date=30 March 2012 \|accessdate=27 April 2012}}</ref> The incrementation was chosen not as a numerical order of release, but rather as an identifying string as "Version.PlannedRelease.UnplannedRelease (build number)," with versions incrementing yearly.<ref name="2.5Notes" />

	Since then, the software has received regular updates. Following the May 2019 release of version 9.1, work had slowed slightly, apparently in favor of a planned rewrite of the code using Java Spring. In August 2019, I-TECH's Casey Iiams-Hauser (the OpenELIS Global project owner) put out a call for a software development team to tackle the transition to Java Spring and [[PostgreSQL]], with a target date of September 15, 2019.<ref name="Liams-HauserComeWork19">{{cite web \|url=https://talk.openmrs.org/t/come-work-on-openelis-global-with-i-tech-we-are-looking-for-tech-writers-ui-ux-designers-and-devs-an/24221 \|title=Come work on OpenELIS Global with I-TECH! \|work=OpenMRS Talk \|author=Liams-Hauser, C. \|date=05 August 2019 \|accessdate=28 March 2022}}</ref> The first release of the new version occurred in January 2020; the release notes stated: "This is a re-write of OpenELIS on modern frameworks and a significant security upgrade. At the end of this process, all tech will be currently supported and up to hardening standards. This software will be certified for use on US Government, and other high-security networks."<ref name="Liams-HauserOpenELISSoft22">{{cite web \|url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p0zMfoUXRBbr9JyjjMeWRt1dgi7EbOd3IZdP6NCulow/edit?pli=1#heading=h.71anhixmrzil \|title=OpenELIS Software Release Roadmap \|author=Liams-Hauser, C. \|date=March 2022 \|accessdate=28 March 2022}}</ref> More recent updates have added support for [[COVID-19]] testing, the [[Health Level 7#Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)\|FHIR API]], ASTM analyzer interfaces, data warehousing, and more.<ref name="Liams-HauserOpenELISSoft22" />

	==Features==		==Features==
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	* {{cite journal \|journal=PHINews \|year=2008 \|volume=2 \|issue=4 \|pages=6–9 \|title=OpenELIS: How a small lab community created a world-wide database \|author=Jones, Jay \|publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \|format=PDF \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311000926/http://www.cdc.gov/phin/library/documents/pdf/PHINews%20Volume%202%20Issue%204.pdf}}		* {{cite journal \|journal=PHINews \|year=2008 \|volume=2 \|issue=4 \|pages=6–9 \|title=OpenELIS: How a small lab community created a world-wide database \|author=Jones, Jay \|publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \|format=PDF \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311000926/http://www.cdc.gov/phin/library/documents/pdf/PHINews%20Volume%202%20Issue%204.pdf}}
	* {{cite journal \|journal=AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings \|year=2006 \|pages=529–33 \|title=Cooking up an open source EMR for developing countries: OpenMRS - a recipe for successful collaboration \|author=Mamlin, Burke W.; Paul G. Biondich; Ben A. Wolfe; Hamish Fraser; Darius Jazayeri; Christian Allen; Justin Miranda; William M. Tierney \|pmc=1839638 \|pmid=17238397}}		* {{cite journal \|journal=AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings \|year=2006 \|pages=529–33 \|title=Cooking up an open source EMR for developing countries: OpenMRS - a recipe for successful collaboration \|author=Mamlin, Burke W.; Paul G. Biondich; Ben A. Wolfe; Hamish Fraser; Darius Jazayeri; Christian Allen; Justin Miranda; William M. Tierney \|pmc=1839638 \|pmid=17238397}}

	==External links==		==External links==

	* [https://github.com/DIGI-UW/OpenELIS-Global-2 OpenELIS Global (current) on GitHub]
	* [https://github.com/openelisglobal/openelisglobal-core/ OpenELIS (pre-2.0) at GitHub]
	* [https://code.google.com/archive/p/openelisglobal/ OpenELIS Global at Google Code] (Archived)

	* NOTE: The country specific blogs for Haiti and Cote d'Ivoire have been combined at: [http://openelis.blogspot.com/ OpenELIS Global blog]

	==References==		==References==

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	==External links==		==External links==

	* [https://github.com/~~I-TECH~~-UW/OpenELIS-Global-2 OpenELIS Global (current) on GitHub]		* [https://github.com/DIGI-UW/OpenELIS-Global-2 OpenELIS Global (current) on GitHub]
	* [https://github.com/openelisglobal/openelisglobal-core/ OpenELIS (pre-2.0) at GitHub]		* [https://github.com/openelisglobal/openelisglobal-core/ OpenELIS (pre-2.0) at GitHub]
	* [https://code.google.com/archive/p/openelisglobal/ OpenELIS Global at Google Code] (Archived)		* [https://code.google.com/archive/p/openelisglobal/ OpenELIS Global at Google Code] (Archived)

	* NOTE: The country specific blogs for Haiti and Cote d'Ivoire have been combined at: [http://openelis.blogspot.com/ OpenELIS Global blog]		* NOTE: The country specific blogs for Haiti and Cote d'Ivoire have been combined at: [http://openelis.blogspot.com/ OpenELIS Global blog]
	** blog for [http://haitilis.wordpress.com/ OpenELIS in Haiti]
	** blog for [http://cdilis.wordpress.com/ OpenELIS in Côte d'Ivoire]
	** blog for [http://vietnamlis.wordpress.com/ OpenELIS in Vietnam]
	* [https://www.go2itech.org/ I-TECH] at the University of Washington

	==References==		==References==

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	** blog for [http://haitilis.wordpress.com/ OpenELIS in Haiti]		** blog for [http://haitilis.wordpress.com/ OpenELIS in Haiti]
	** blog for [http://cdilis.wordpress.com/ OpenELIS in Côte d'Ivoire]		** blog for [http://cdilis.wordpress.com/ OpenELIS in Côte d'Ivoire]
	* blog for [http://vietnamlis.wordpress.com/ OpenELIS in Vietnam]		** blog for [http://vietnamlis.wordpress.com/ OpenELIS in Vietnam]
	* [https://www.go2itech.org/ I-TECH] at the University of Washington		* [https://www.go2itech.org/ I-TECH] at the University of Washington

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	\| name = OpenELIS ~~Global~~		\| name = OpenELIS
	\| title = OpenELIS ~~Global~~		\| title = OpenELIS
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	* [http://openelisglobal.org/ OpenELIS Global]		* [http://openelisglobal.org/ OpenELIS Global]
	* [http://code.google.com/p/openelisglobal/ OpenELIS Global] development and repository site		* [http://code.google.com/p/openelisglobal/ OpenELIS Global] development and repository site
			* [https://github.com/openelisglobal/openelisglobal-core/ OpenELIS at GitHub]
	* NOTE: The country specific blogs for Haiti and Cote d'Ivoire have been combined at: [http://openelis.blogspot.com/ OpenELIS Global blog]		* NOTE: The country specific blogs for Haiti and Cote d'Ivoire have been combined at: [http://openelis.blogspot.com/ OpenELIS Global blog]
	** blog for [http://haitilis.wordpress.com/ OpenELIS in Haiti]		** blog for [http://haitilis.wordpress.com/ OpenELIS in Haiti]

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	'''OpenELIS''' is a free open-source [[laboratory information system]] (LIS) designed to act as a "software and business process framework for the robust functioning of [[Public health informatics\|public health]] laboratories."<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://sites.google.com/site/openelisglobal/history \|title=History - OpenELIS Global \|publisher=University of Washington I-TECH \|accessdate=27 April 2012}}</ref> OpenELIS originally began as an open-source software project with numerous important collaborations, with contributions coming heavily from the Minnesota State Public Health Laboratory and the University of Iowa. The larger international influence of collaborators such as the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the University of Washington's International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH) later spread the OpenELIS technology (in the form of separate branches of the software) to other parts of the world, including Vietnam, Haiti, and Côte d'Ivoire. This culminated in the first public open-source release of the software under the name "OpenELIS Global" in 2012.		'''OpenELIS''' is a free open-source [[laboratory information system]] (LIS) designed to act as a "software and business process framework for the robust functioning of [[Public health informatics\|public health]] laboratories."<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://sites.google.com/site/openelisglobal/history \|title=History - OpenELIS Global \|publisher=University of Washington I-TECH \|accessdate=27 April 2012}}</ref> OpenELIS originally began as an open-source software project with numerous important collaborations, with contributions coming heavily from the Minnesota State Public Health Laboratory and the University of Iowa. The larger international influence of collaborators such as the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), the U.S. [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC), and the University of Washington's International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH) later spread the OpenELIS technology (in the form of separate branches of the software) to other parts of the world, including Vietnam, Haiti, and Côte d'Ivoire. This culminated in the first public open-source release of the software under the name "OpenELIS Global" in 2012.

	==Product history==		==Product history==

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	After the publication of this document representatives from three of the involved six states — Minnesota, Iowa, and Kansas — expressed interest in putting the ideas in the ''Requirements'' document into action in the form of an open-source [[laboratory information management system\|LIMS]] system. From this desire another collaborative effort occurred to make such software a reality in the form of the Open Electronic Laboratory Information System or OpenELIS. Kansas eventually had to drop out of the project, but Minnesota and Iowa continued on with development in 2004, all while the APHL and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) increased interest in the project through their humanitarian work in parts of Africa and Vietnam.<ref name="PHIN1" /> However, as development on the software had been mostly U.S.-centric, an adaptation had to be developed, including language translations and regional addressing. Inevitably, this turned into its own independent branch of the software, including development by local Vietnamese, making the software truly international. Meanwhile domestic development continued in Minnesota and Iowa, with Minnesota's code base sharing similarities with Vietnam's, while Iowa was branching out with its own slightly-modified version.<ref name="PHIN1" />		After the publication of this document representatives from three of the involved six states — Minnesota, Iowa, and Kansas — expressed interest in putting the ideas in the ''Requirements'' document into action in the form of an open-source [[laboratory information management system\|LIMS]] system. From this desire another collaborative effort occurred to make such software a reality in the form of the Open Electronic Laboratory Information System or OpenELIS. Kansas eventually had to drop out of the project, but Minnesota and Iowa continued on with development in 2004, all while the APHL and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) increased interest in the project through their humanitarian work in parts of Africa and Vietnam.<ref name="PHIN1" /> However, as development on the software had been mostly U.S.-centric, an adaptation had to be developed, including language translations and regional addressing. Inevitably, this turned into its own independent branch of the software, including development by local Vietnamese, making the software truly international. Meanwhile domestic development continued in Minnesota and Iowa, with Minnesota's code base sharing similarities with Vietnam's, while Iowa was branching out with its own slightly-modified version.<ref name="PHIN1" />

	By early-2008 the Minnesota State Public Health Laboratory was testing its implementation of OpenLIMS, while Vietnam began testing theirs in February at the District Four Health Center in Ho Chi Minh City and the National Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases in Hanoi.<ref name="SHL1" /><ref name="APHL2">{{cite web \|url=http://www.aphl.org/AboutAPHL/publications/Pages/Spring2008.aspx \|title=Realizing the APHL Vision Around the Globe \|author=Rogers, Karen \|publisher=Association of Public Health Laboratories \|date=Spring 2008 \|accessdate=26 April 2012}}</ref> The Vietnam branch in particular was seen by the APHL as "a rare opportunity to learn from the mistakes we've made with laboratory information systems domestically and to implement them right the first time in these other countries."<ref name="APHL2" />		By early 2008 the Minnesota State Public Health Laboratory was testing its implementation of OpenLIMS, while Vietnam began testing theirs in February at the District Four Health Center in Ho Chi Minh City and the National Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases in Hanoi.<ref name="SHL1" /><ref name="APHL2">{{cite web \|url=http://www.aphl.org/AboutAPHL/publications/Pages/Spring2008.aspx \|title=Realizing the APHL Vision Around the Globe \|author=Rogers, Karen \|publisher=Association of Public Health Laboratories \|date=Spring 2008 \|accessdate=26 April 2012}}</ref> The Vietnam branch in particular was seen by the APHL as "a rare opportunity to learn from the mistakes we've made with laboratory information systems domestically and to implement them right the first time in these other countries."<ref name="APHL2" />

	===OpenELIS branches out again===		===OpenELIS branches out again===

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