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'''OpenELIS Global''' is a free open-source [[laboratory information system]] (LIS) designed "to run national laboratory networks that serve millions of people."<ref name="OpenELISGlobalAbout">{{cite web |url=https://openelis-global.org/about/ |title=Laboratory information, built for the public good |publisher=DIGI at the University of Washington |accessdate=30 July 2026}}</ref> OpenELIS Global is as an offshoot of the [[OpenELIS]] open-source software project, with original contributions by the Minnesota State Public Health Laboratory and the University of Iowa. The larger international influence on OpenELIS 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.<ref name"OpenELISOldAboutArch">{{cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/site/openelisglobal/about |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190719065729/https://sites.google.com/site/openelisglobal/about |title=About/Team  |publisher=ITECH at Washington University |archivedate=19 July 2019 |accessdate=30 July 2026}}</ref> While OpenELIS continues on as a separate project run by the OpenELIS Foundation, it states that it "has limited involvement in development of global OpenELIS."<ref name="OpenELISOrgAbout">{{cite web |url=https://openelis.org/about-openelis/ |title=About OpenELIS |publisher=OpenELIS Foundation |date=2026 |accessdate=30 July 2026}}</ref>
'''OpenELIS Global''' is a free open-source [[laboratory information system]] (LIS) designed "to run national laboratory networks that serve millions of people,"<ref name="OpenELISGlobalAbout">{{cite web |url=https://openelis-global.org/about/ |title=Laboratory information, built for the public good |publisher=DIGI at the University of Washington |accessdate=30 July 2026}}</ref>, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. The software is as an offshoot of the [[OpenELIS]] open-source software project, which received development contributions from the likes of the Minnesota State Public Health Laboratory and the University of Iowa. The larger international influence on OpenELIS 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.<ref name"OpenELISOldAboutArch">{{cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/site/openelisglobal/about |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190719065729/https://sites.google.com/site/openelisglobal/about |title=About/Team  |publisher=ITECH at Washington University |archivedate=19 July 2019 |accessdate=30 July 2026}}</ref> While OpenELIS continues on as a separate project run by the OpenELIS Foundation, it states that it "has limited involvement in development of global OpenELIS."<ref name="OpenELISOrgAbout">{{cite web |url=https://openelis.org/about-openelis/ |title=About OpenELIS |publisher=OpenELIS Foundation |date=2026 |accessdate=30 July 2026}}</ref>
 
OpenELIS Global is recognized as a Digital Square Global Good and a verified Digital Public Good<ref name="DSGlobalGoods23">{{cite web |url=https://datafi.thepalladiumgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2.-Global_Goods_Guidebook_Version_4.0_FINAL_forpublishing.pdf |format=PDF |title=The Global Goods Guidebook - An Overview of the Software Global Goods Ecosystem |publisher=Digital Square |page=48 |date=May 2023 |accessdate=30 July 2026}}</ref><ref name="DPGAOpenELISArch">{{cite web |url=https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/registry/openelis-global.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526130236/https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/registry/openelis-global.html |title=OpenELIS Global |publisher=Digital Public Goods Alliance |date=2022 |archivedate=26 May 2023 |accessdate=30 July 2026}}</ref>, and its Cote d'Ivoire implementation was evaluated in a 2024 peer-reviewed study in ''JMIR Public Health and Surveillance''.<ref name="HeLab24">{{cite journal |title=Laboratory Data Timeliness and Completeness Improves Following Implementation of an Electronic Laboratory Information System in Côte d’Ivoire: Quasi-Experimental Study on 21 Clinical Laboratories From 2014 to 2020 |author=He, Y.; Kouabenan, Y.-R.; Assoa, P.H; et al. |journal=JMIR Public Health and Surveillance |year=2024 |volume=10 |issue=e50407 |doi=10.2196/50407 |pmid=38506899}}</ref>


==Product history==
==Product history==
In 2012, the University of Washington I-TECH began hosting OpenELIS Global, an international version of the OpenELIS software. The intent of the developers—the International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) at Washington University—was to expand the functionality of OpenELIS to be more flexible while still "maintaining a common code base" among the the variation of feature requirements across different countries.<ref name"OpenELISOldAGlobalArch">{{cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/site/openelisglobal/global-implementation |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130143701/https://sites.google.com/site/openelisglobal/global-implementation |title=A Global LIS |publisher=ITECH at Washington University |archivedate=30 January 2021 |accessdate=30 July 2026}}</ref> 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 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130143717/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 |archivedate=30 January 2021 |accessdate=30 July 2026}}</ref> The incrementation was chosen not as a numerical order of release, but rather as an identifying string as "Version.Pl​annedRelea​se.Unplann​edRelease (build number)," with versions incrementing yearly.<ref name="2.5Notes" />


===Early project evolution===
Since then, the software has received regular updates. Following the May 2019 release of version 9.1, work 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=30 July 2026}}</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 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328192537/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 |archivedate=28 March 2022 |accessdate=30 July 2026}}</ref> Updates over the years 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" />
 
The OpenELIS project evolved out of a partnership between the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) in late 2002, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.<ref name="SHL1">{{cite journal |journal=Lab Link |year=January 2012 |volume=4 |issue=1 |title=OpenELIS comes home |publisher=State Hygienic Laboratory at The University of Iowa |url=http://www.shl.uiowa.edu/publications/lablink/201201/openelis.xml}}</ref><ref name="RWJF1">{{cite web |url=http://www.rwjf.org/reports/grr/053531.htm |title=Public Health Informatics Institute - Grant Results Reports |author=Wood, James |publisher=Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |date=February 2009 |accessdate=26 April 2012}}</ref>{{Dead link}} The members of the collaboration were tasked with a "ground-up" effort to develop business processes and system requirements for [[laboratory informatics]] systems in the realm of public health.<ref name="RWJF1" /><ref name="PHIN1">{{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=http://www.cdc.gov/phin/library/documents/pdf/PHINews%20Volume%202%20Issue%204.pdf |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311000926/http://www.cdc.gov/phin/library/documents/pdf/PHINews%20Volume%202%20Issue%204.pdf |archivedate=11 March 2010}}</ref> This work—together with six U.S. states—eventually led to the 2003 publication of a specifications document called ''Requirements for Public Health Laboratory Information Management Systems'', which detailed "all functions that a public health laboratory information system must be capable of supporting."<ref name="RWJF1" /><ref name="APHL1">{{cite web |url=https://www.aphl.org/aboutAPHL/publications/Documents/INFO-2003-PHL-Requirements-16-Business-Processes.pdf |format=PDF |title=Requirements for Public Health Laboratory Information Management Systems |publisher=Association of Public Health Laboratories |date=September 2003 |accessdate=28 March 2022}}</ref>
 
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 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820113137/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 |archivedate=20 August 2008 |accessdate=28 March 2022}}</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===
 
In April 2008, the OpenELIS team reached out to the members and collaborators (including the University of Washington) of the [[OpenMRS]] open-source project<ref name="PIH-EMR">{{cite web |url=http://pihemr.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/collaboration-with-openelis-an-open-source-lab-information-system/ |title=Collaboration with OpenELIS, an open source lab information system |author=Blaya, Joaquin |publisher=Partners In Health Informatics Team |date=27 April 2008 |accessdate=26 April 2012}}</ref>, a project dedicated to supporting the delivery of health care in developing countries.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Weeks of discussions led to an agreement to create an OpenELIS developer community as well as a potential connecting of OpenELIS with OpenMRS.<ref name="PIH-EMR" />
 
At roughly the same time as OpenELIS was being developed, a different collaboration was occurring in Haiti between the University of Washington's Clinical Informatics Research Group, headed by Dr. Bill Lober, and the University of California, San Francisco. Known as the International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH), this team worked with yet another group called the Clinical Informatics Research Group (CIRG) to improve the [[electronic medical record]] (EMR) systems of Haiti. Through their involvement with OpenMRS collaboration, the University of Washington's Clinical Informatics Research Group learned of OpenELIS and thought it ideal for implementing in clinical labs throughout Haiti, including the Haiti National Lab.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://haitilis.wordpress.com/2008/05/ |title=2008 May - OpenELIS Implementation in Haiti |publisher=Clinical Informatics Research Group at the University of Washington |date=May 2008 |accessdate=27 April 2012}}</ref>
 
By June 2008, work was beginning on a new branch of the OpenELIS software for Haiti, specifically as a branch of the version implemented in Vietnam,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://haitilis.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/version-genealogy/ |title=Version Genealogy |author=Schwartz, Paul |publisher=Clinical Informatics Research Group at the University of Washington |date=4 June 2008 |accessdate=27 April 2012}}</ref> though by November a conversion to the Minnesota/Iowa code base was completed "to take advantage of any updates" those development teams made.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://haitilis.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/status-reports-for-last-xx-weeks-from-paul/ |title=Status Reports for last 4 weeks (from Paul) |author=Lober, Bill |publisher=Clinical Informatics Research Group at the University of Washington |date=8 December 2008 |accessdate=27 April 2012}}</ref> The seeds for a similar effort were planted in Côte d'Ivoire the following month.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://haitilis.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/off-to-cote-divoire/ |title=Off to Cote d’Ivoire |author=Lober, Bill |publisher=Clinical Informatics Research Group at the University of Washington |date=8 December 2008 |accessdate=27 April 2012}}</ref> That same month a SourceForge beta project for OpenELIS was started.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/openelis/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324153202/http://sourceforge.net/projects/openelis/ |title=OpenELIS - Laboratory Information System |publisher=SourceForge |date=02 December 2008 |archivedate=24 March 2012 |accessdate=28 March 2022}}</ref>.
 
In 2009 and 2010 the University of Washington group continued improving its Haiti branch of the software, demoing it on the University servers as upgrades were being made. In March 2009 the team demonstrated the Minnesota/Iowa and Haiti versions of the OpenELIS software to Joshua Franklin of the University of Washington Biomedical Informatics Core of the Institute of Translational Health Sciences, evaluating it as a potentially useful LIS.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://haitilis.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/haitiopenelis-status-report-for-week-ending-06032009/ |title=HaitiOpenElis status report for week ending 06/03/2009 |author=Schwartz, Paul |publisher=Clinical Informatics Research Group at the University of Washington |date=9 March 2009 |accessdate=27 April 2012}}</ref> As pilot implementations of OpenELIS 1.1 were being installed in Haitian labs, work also continued on the software in Côte d'Ivoire. On October 19, 2010, version 1.0 of the Côte d'Ivoire branch (referred to as "Retro-CI" for the location of its installation, the CDC Retrovirus Cote d′Ivoire [CDC Retro-CI]) of OpenELIS was installed in the country.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cdilis.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/training-and-installation-at-retroci/ |title=Training and Installation at RetroCI |author=Nixon, Laura |publisher=Clinical Informatics Research Group at the University of Washington |date=19 October 2010 |accessdate=27 April 2012}}</ref>
 
2011 brought many changes to OpenELIS. In February 2011 an improved version 1.2 was implemented in Haiti, with a planned expanded version of the software for the Laboratoire National de Santé Publique (LNSP) and other national public health reference laboratories in March.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.go2itech.org/2011/03/health-informatics-in-haiti-improving-access-to-data-improves-care/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530140917/http://news.go2itech.org/2011/03/health-informatics-in-haiti-improving-access-to-data-improves-care/ |title=Health Informatics in Haiti: Improving Access to Data Improves Care |publisher=University of Washington I-TECH |date=March 2011 |archivedate=30 May 2015 |accessdate=28 March 2022}}</ref> On July 18, 2011, a new 2.0 version of Côte d'Ivoire's branch of OpenELIS was release, featuring a new menu system, better patient demographics handling, and additional bug fixes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cdilis.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/retroci-release-2-0-july-18th/ |title=HaitiOpenElis status report for week ending 06/03/2009 |author=Schwartz, Paul |publisher=Clinical Informatics Research Group at the University of Washington |date=9 March 2009 |accessdate=27 April 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 (monikered 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.Pl​annedRelea​se.Unplann​edRelease (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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==Further reading==
==Further reading==


* {{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 |title=Laboratory Data Timeliness and Completeness Improves Following Implementation of an Electronic Laboratory Information System in Côte d’Ivoire: Quasi-Experimental Study on 21 Clinical Laboratories From 2014 to 2020 |author=He, Y.; Kouabenan, Y.-R.; Assoa, P.H; et al. |journal=JMIR Public Health and Surveillance |year=2024 |volume=10 |issue=e50407 |doi=10.2196/50407 |pmid=38506899}}
* {{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==

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This page is about the international successor to the original OpenELIS software, OpenELIS Global. For the original software, which is still actively developed, see OpenELIS.


OpenELIS Global
OpenELIS logo.jpg
Original author(s) Casey Iiams-Hauser
Developer(s) Digital Initiatives Group (DIGI) – University of Washington
Initial release February 29, 2012 (2012-02-29)[1]
Stable release

3.2.1.11  (July 13, 2026; 20 days ago (2026-07-13))

[±]
Written in Java (Spring), JavaScript (React, Carbon Design System)
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Laboratory informatics software
License(s) Mozilla Public License 2.0
Website openelis-global.org

OpenELIS Global is a free open-source laboratory information system (LIS) designed "to run national laboratory networks that serve millions of people,"[2], particularly in low- and middle-income countries. The software is as an offshoot of the OpenELIS open-source software project, which received development contributions from the likes of the Minnesota State Public Health Laboratory and the University of Iowa. The larger international influence on OpenELIS 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.[3] While OpenELIS continues on as a separate project run by the OpenELIS Foundation, it states that it "has limited involvement in development of global OpenELIS."[4]

OpenELIS Global is recognized as a Digital Square Global Good and a verified Digital Public Good[5][6], and its Cote d'Ivoire implementation was evaluated in a 2024 peer-reviewed study in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance.[7]

Product history

In 2012, the University of Washington I-TECH began hosting OpenELIS Global, an international version of the OpenELIS software. The intent of the developers—the International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) at Washington University—was to expand the functionality of OpenELIS to be more flexible while still "maintaining a common code base" among the the variation of feature requirements across different countries.[8] The first public open-source release of the software was with version 2.4 on February 29, 2012[1], followed by a 2.5 release on March 30.[9] The incrementation was chosen not as a numerical order of release, but rather as an identifying string as "Version.Pl​annedRelea​se.Unplann​edRelease (build number)," with versions incrementing yearly.[9]

Since then, the software has received regular updates. Following the May 2019 release of version 9.1, work 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.[10] 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."[11] Updates over the years have added support for COVID-19 testing, the FHIR API, ASTM analyzer interfaces, data warehousing, and more.[11]

Features

Known features of OpenELIS Global include[1][9][11]:

  • sample entry
  • results entry
  • user management and administration
  • role-based security
  • reporting
  • data validation
  • workplans
  • patient reports
  • study reports
  • test catalogs
  • workflow management
  • barcoded labels
  • raw data export
  • audit trail logging
  • electronic signatures
  • instrument integration
  • email and SMS support
  • LOINC code compatibility
  • FHIR support
  • English or French language configuration
  • iSante interoperability

Hardware/software requirements

OpenELIS Global can be run in a virtual machine like VirtualBox or it can be built and installed from source code.

Virtual machine

System requirements for an OpenELIS Global virtual machine installation will be based on the requirements to run the virtual machine.

Source code

To build and install from source, you'll need:

  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • Net Tools
  • Python

More information can be found here.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

Videos

The following YouTube videos exist for OpenELIS Global:

Demos

An online demo of OpenELIS Global can be found on the OpenELIS website.

Documentation

Documentation for OpenELIS Global can be found here.

Entities using OpenELIS

The following entities are known to be utilizing or have used some form of OpenELIS:

CDC Retrovirus Côte d'Ivoire, Clinical Informatics Research Group, Institut Pasteur Côte d'Ivoire, Laboratoire National de Santé Publique - Côte d'Ivoire, Laboratoire National de Santé Publique - Haiti, Minnesota State Public Health Laboratory, State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa

Further reading

  • He, Y.; Kouabenan, Y.-R.; Assoa, P.H; et al. (2024). "Laboratory Data Timeliness and Completeness Improves Following Implementation of an Electronic Laboratory Information System in Côte d’Ivoire: Quasi-Experimental Study on 21 Clinical Laboratories From 2014 to 2020". JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 10 (e50407). doi:10.2196/50407. PMID 38506899. 


External links

  • NOTE: The country specific blogs for Haiti and Cote d'Ivoire have been combined at: OpenELIS Global blog

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "OpenELIS Global 2.4 Release Notes". University of Washington I-TECH. 29 February 2012. Archived from the original on 30 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210130143717/https://sites.google.com/site/openelisglobal/openelis-global-2-4-release-notes. Retrieved 30 July 2026. 
  2. ↑ "Laboratory information, built for the public good". DIGI at the University of Washington. https://openelis-global.org/about/. Retrieved 30 July 2026. 
  3. ↑ "About/Team". ITECH at Washington University. Archived from the original on 19 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190719065729/https://sites.google.com/site/openelisglobal/about. Retrieved 30 July 2026. 
  4. ↑ "About OpenELIS". OpenELIS Foundation. 2026. https://openelis.org/about-openelis/. Retrieved 30 July 2026. 
  5. ↑ "The Global Goods Guidebook - An Overview of the Software Global Goods Ecosystem" (PDF). Digital Square. May 2023. p. 48. https://datafi.thepalladiumgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2.-Global_Goods_Guidebook_Version_4.0_FINAL_forpublishing.pdf. Retrieved 30 July 2026. 
  6. ↑ "OpenELIS Global". Digital Public Goods Alliance. 2022. Archived from the original on 26 May 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230526130236/https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/registry/openelis-global.html. Retrieved 30 July 2026. 
  7. ↑ He, Y.; Kouabenan, Y.-R.; Assoa, P.H; et al. (2024). "Laboratory Data Timeliness and Completeness Improves Following Implementation of an Electronic Laboratory Information System in Côte d’Ivoire: Quasi-Experimental Study on 21 Clinical Laboratories From 2014 to 2020". JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 10 (e50407). doi:10.2196/50407. PMID 38506899. 
  8. ↑ "A Global LIS". ITECH at Washington University. Archived from the original on 30 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210130143701/https://sites.google.com/site/openelisglobal/global-implementation. Retrieved 30 July 2026. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "OpenELIS Global 2.5 Release Notes". University of Washington I-TECH. 30 March 2012. Archived from the original on 30 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210130143717/https://sites.google.com/site/openelisglobal/openelis-global-2-5-release-notes. Retrieved 30 July 2026. 
  10. ↑ Liams-Hauser, C. (5 August 2019). "Come work on OpenELIS Global with I-TECH!". OpenMRS Talk. 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. Retrieved 30 July 2026. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Liams-Hauser, C. (March 2022). "OpenELIS Software Release Roadmap". Archived from the original on 28 March 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220328192537/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p0zMfoUXRBbr9JyjjMeWRt1dgi7EbOd3IZdP6NCulow/edit?pli=1#heading=h.71anhixmrzil. Retrieved 30 July 2026. 
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