// the take
A monorepo wrapper for HospitalRun's attempted v2 rewrite of their offline-first hospital information system (EHR for resource-limited settings) — the actual frontend, server, components, core, and CLI all live as separate repos pulled in as git submodules. It's for people curious about the project's history more than anyone looking for working software to run.
PouchDB/CouchDB as the sync layer is a defensible choice for a system meant to work in developing-world settings with unreliable connectivity — it's a real offline-first architecture, not a buzzword. The project had legitimate institutional weight at one point: OpenJS Foundation hosting, an OpenUK award, and CI pipelines wired up across every submodule rather than just the main repo.
Dead project: last push was February 2021, and the README's own banner — 'v1.0.0-beta is no longer supported, v2 is under development' — has been frozen in that state for close to five years, meaning v2 never shipped. The repo itself has no application code at all, just submodule pointers to other repos (which are likely equally stale) plus two spec folders containing nothing but .gitkeep files. For software that implies it handles patient records, an unfinished rewrite with no visible working build is a real risk for anyone tempted to actually deploy it rather than just read about it.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →