saleemf wrote on Wednesday, May 25, 2011:
Hi Uhsarp,
Just thought I would add my two cents worth here as well.
If you have read through some of the postings in this Forum you will have seen that i am moaning and groaning about the same thing.
It seems that this Forum is designed for those who are involved actively in the project and know each other.
We the VARS or whatever else we should be referred are not entitled to any real answers. What I mean by this is how to get the max benefit out of this Superbly Powerful program for our clients.
Let em give you three instances.
1) There is no real documentation anywhere about how to send email reminders for patient appointments. This is the 21st century and this sort of thing should be very simple to implement. It seems that there are several methodolgies that can be used to send emails but not even one is documented. Does that mean that one cannot send email reminders for patient appointments. If that is the case then it should say so. If it simply a case of documenting the process please send me the steps required to make this work via a recorded message and I will prepare the documentation for posting on the Forum. The same applies to sending SMS reminders. We all know that there are 101 places where you need to make certain entries but which which is which.
2. Patient Diagnosis Forms. It seems that no one has designed any specialty forms for use with OpenEMR. This I find very very very very Strange and UNBELEIVABLE. This is the most important part of any medical practice. The Doctor must keep notes on patient Diagnosis. OK. So you have developed a form after 3000 hours and do not want to share it wuth the rest of the world. That is fine. atleast document the steps that need to be taken to create a form.
Tony you say that "We work with a very large Opthamolgy and Optometry clinic ". Do they not use any image based forms or specialty forms for keeping patient Diagnosis. Is it not possible to share just one form with some Directions on how to go about making a form.
We are based in the Middle East. We have sepnt the last few months learning OpenEMR. Now we are actively marketing and are almost on the verge of completing our first install for a private clinic with 10 providers divided into four different departments. Optometrics, Dental, Laser Hair Removel and Plastic Surgery.
Unless we start documenting all the steps for DUMMIES LIKE MYSELF, the user base will never really grow, as people will start off with the product but then give up because no one can guide them on how to continue.
Go to the link that Tony has provided and you will see that there is not one single form that anyone has shared, GREAT SPIRIT GUYS.
If I and my team can be of any assistance in this regard with writing documentation, please let me know.
God Bless
Saleem
