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hospitalrun/hospitalrun-frontend

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TLDR

The browser-facing interface for HospitalRun, a free open-source electronic medical records system built for hospitals in developing regions that need offline-capable patient management software at no cost.

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  root((hospitalrun-frontend))
    What it does
      Patient records UI
      Clinical workflows
      Offline capable
    Tech Stack
      TypeScript
      React
      CouchDB sync
    Use Cases
      Developing region hospitals
      Free EMR deployment
      Contributor development
    Setup
      Needs backend server
      See project README
    Audience
      Developers
      Healthcare NGOs
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Deploy a free electronic medical records system at an under-resourced hospital that needs patient record-keeping without expensive proprietary software.

USE CASE 2

Contribute UI features to the HospitalRun frontend using React and TypeScript, following the contributing guide linked from the repository.

USE CASE 3

Run the frontend locally connected to a hospitalrun-server backend to test clinical workflows in a development environment.

USE CASE 4

Build an offline-capable hospital patient management interface that continues working when the internet connection is unreliable.

Tech stack

TypeScriptReactCouchDB

Getting it running

Difficulty · hard Time to first run · 1day+

Requires setting up the separate hospitalrun-server backend with CouchDB, the frontend README redirects to the project-level setup guide.

MIT license, use, modify, and deploy freely for any purpose including commercial, keep the copyright notice.

In plain English

HospitalRun Frontend is the browser-facing part of HospitalRun, a free, open-source electronic medical records system built specifically for hospitals in developing regions. The broader HospitalRun project aims to give under-resourced hospitals access to the kind of patient management and medical record-keeping software that is standard in wealthier healthcare settings but often unavailable or unaffordable where it is most needed. This repository contains the frontend application, which is built with React and TypeScript. It provides the user interface that hospital staff interact with: patient records, appointments, and other clinical workflows. It connects to a backend that uses CouchDB as its database, which was chosen partly because CouchDB can sync data and work offline, an important feature in areas with unreliable internet connectivity. The README for this repository is intentionally minimal. It redirects users who want to run or deploy HospitalRun to a general project README, and redirects developers who want to contribute to a separate contributing guide that covers the tech stack, how to set up a local development environment, how to run tests, and how to submit code changes. Both documents are linked from this frontend repository. HospitalRun is a community-driven project with contributions managed through GitHub and a Slack community. The software is released under the MIT license, meaning anyone can use, modify, or deploy it without licensing fees. This repository is marked as actively under development. It is the frontend counterpart to the hospitalrun-server repository, which handles the backend and data layer.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Help me set up the HospitalRun frontend locally by cloning the repo, installing dependencies, and connecting it to a local hospitalrun-server instance so I can test the patient record UI.
Prompt 2
I want to contribute a new appointment scheduling screen to HospitalRun. Walk me through the React and TypeScript patterns the project uses, based on the contributing guide, so my code matches the existing style.
Prompt 3
How does HospitalRun use CouchDB to support offline data entry? Explain how the sync mechanism works and how the frontend handles being disconnected from the server.
Prompt 4
I am deploying HospitalRun for a clinic with unreliable internet. What are the key steps to set up the frontend and server so staff can enter records offline and sync later?
Prompt 5
Show me how to run the HospitalRun frontend test suite and write a new test for a patient form component following the project's testing conventions.
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