arnabnaha wrote on Monday, July 19, 2010:
Hi
Does Openemr supports Barcode scanners???
visolveemr wrote on Monday, July 19, 2010:
Hi,
Did you mean barcode for login /retrieving patient information/ etc? Then i suppose, we don’t have that feature in OpenEMR. You can very well post the same in feature request.
Does OpenEMR have the ability to use barcode scanner or computer/cell/tablet camera to scan a driver license barcode and import that information into the patient_data fields? Do we have the ability to scan an insurance card and use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to capture the data and enter it into the correct insurance fields? TIA
A while ago someone built a flutter app that could interface with the API that I believe could scan barcodes.
Project - OpenEMR Android app - GSOC - OpenEMR Community (open-emr.org)
You can also get handheld usb scanner devices that should be able to read a UPC code and generate the text to write into a textbox in realtime as a “keystroke input”. There are apps that allow your smartphone to scan barcodes then copy to clipboard for you to paste in another application, in this case OpenEMR.
The question then becomes if such a solution can be HIPPA compliant.