Hello everyone,

Its almost the end of a ninth week of GSoC 2013. yeap! more than 2 months has been passed already. In this week i have worked for the Patient Narratives video stream capturing feature. It wasn't that much easy task. The WebRTC mediastream API isn't that much of mature tool yet. (Its actually an ongoing project by Mozilla and Chrome team) But this the most suitable option to use in my project -- since its a web based, Open source tool.

Basically WebRTC API will allow developers to create apps (which will capture web-cam video/audio recording, Streaming and things like that) simply using the power of HTML5 and JavaScript. The main advantage of using WebRTC technology is, the user will not have trouble to install Video capture softwares/drivers since it uses the Web as the platform. So everything will be take cared by the web browser. Currently latest versions of Chrome and Firefox browsers support the WebRTC technology.

Here's a quick demo about how WebRTC works : http://harshadura.github.io/record-rtc-together/

Well, the media-stream API is real cool to play with but still it lacks an essential feature specially for my project. Thats media-stream api still doesn't have the capability to return the recorded media as a single file (which contains both audio and video together). What it currently does is generate audio and video as separate blobs (files). Apparently this issue open the door for a real big mess to merge the two files later time.

So I was searching for a solution to get rid of this issue. And I found there's a popular library called FFMPEG which will allow to merge two video+audio files together. Then i tried to find a Java wrapper for it. And finally I found the best tool for the work called Xuggle which will internally process FFMPEG stuff and behave as a Java API.

So I used this Xuggle API to successfully merge the two files i generate with the WebRTC. The merging will happens on server side. after passing the video and audio. (Still there's no obvious way to handle it on client side)

So now everything works as intended! :-)

Currently I am working on the WebRTC implementation to capture the video/audio media stream from the care seekers.
Thank you,
Harsha

Hi All,

I had my university mid semester exams this week, So there's nothing much progress this week, I am sure will get back to you with a good update in next week!

-Harsha

Hi All,

Its the end of the third week of gsoc and it was a busy week for me.
So much research and development happened this week. Since i haven't work with Concept dictionary , Encounters and Observations before, I had to read lot about them. Actually now I understand why OpenMRS is a very unique software amoung all other healthcare related software products, Its because of the wonderful *Concept-Dictionary* it made of and the extensible framework it has.

Currently I am working on to build a basic Care provider console which will show up all the encounters filtered by a particular encounter type.

If all goes well it should look like this :-)

So Glad to heard that I have been selected for "Google summer of code 2013" as a Student this year again, yeap for the second time! :-) This year it was very amazing and much more competitive than last year. To mention a lil wow fact: I have been selected for *two* open source organizations this time!! In-fact those are two great organizations:"Raxa" and "OpenMRS" both are related to Healthcare informatics. (Sometimes we need to take some crucial decisions in our life.) So finally I chose OpenMRS as my organization, because of my love towards this awesome open source community which I have been with over year now,
And ripen, I love this concept by now, "Write codes, Save lives!" I dont think we (as coders) can do much better work than this to serve the global healthcare informatics force. Saving human lives is a priority among all other alms-giving stuff. 

Lastly I wanna thank Lord Budhdha who were always blessed me to get through this big achievement! නමෝ බුද්ධාය.

Congratz everyone! Looking forward for a great summer with OpenMRS!

If you are interested, My Project details can be found here:
I will be developing a "User-driven healthcare" system by integrating OpenMRS-core as the base.

1) https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/durapix/118001
2) https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/projects/Patient+Narratives+Upload+-+Project+Proposal



Few Links:
OpenMRS GSoC 2013 students list: https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/RES/Summer+Of+Code+2013#SummerOfCode2013-Interns,Mentors,andProjects

GSoC 2013 Accept students at Google Melange web: https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2013

• User friendly, Wizard driven Feedback Form
• Automated Screenshot Capture/Edit process within Web Browser.
• User-to-User Communication within Feedback System. (Comment System)

GSoC Project Progress Presentation

21th June 2012 @ OpenMRS Dev Forum

Reference links used in the Presentation - Feedback Module

Project Contents 

Demo of the work done so far (Hosted OpenMRS)

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Password:  Admin123

User Documentation

Thanks for Reading my Gsoc-Story this far! :)

Regards,
harshadura

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Other related Links.

1. GSoc 2012 - Accepted Students From Sri Lanka
2. OpenMRS - GSoC 2012 Landing Page
3. List of all projects accepted into GSoC 2012
4. Project Proposal - Better Error Submission Process for FDBK Module