sentences:  OpenMRS grew out of the critical need to scale up the treatment of HIV in Africa but from the start was conceived as a general purpose electronic medical record system that could support the full range of medical treatments.The first ideas and prototype of OpenMRS were conceived by Paul Biondich and Burke Mamlin from the Regenstrief Institute, Indiana on a visit to the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) project in Eldoret, Kenya in February 2004.Around the same time the team at Partners In Health led by Hamish Fraser and Darius Jazayeri were looking at ways to scale up the web-based medical record system developed to manage drug resistant tuberculosis in Peru, and HIV in rural Haiti.