Hello
Could the system prepare a receipt for payment for every patient that coming up to our clinic? In our case is not commont that the patient is enrolled to an insurance company or similar, so, every time that a client comes has to pay for the services received. Is the billing the appropiate option?
In other hand, I would like to know if OPENEMR could manage inventory issues, in such manner that everytime that a practitionary prepare a prescription with medicines, system can discharge from the corresponding balance.
Yes! You can enable the "inhouse pharmacy" option (see globals.php) and this will give you drug inventory management, ability to print receipts and bottle labels, and a cash checkout interface.
Thanks Rod!.. and in fact, I really need help setting up this option!.. .Where do I look for the code? (globals.php), or that is an administration option?
If you can give me a list of steps, I think I could try!
Done!.. I´ve changed the global.php as you suggests and when I created a new patient I could see that is asking for the pharmacy… which I supossed to be used to bill the medications or any other drugs that patient takes with him/her. Does you know if exists a complete manual of the system?.. The on-line doc is very nice but is not enough deeply to understand how to customized this type of thing. I need to customize a clinic in which every patien pays totally or a part of the services/products received, and also, this product can be discharged from an inventory balances…
You want to start with the Administration/Drugs area, where you can add drug information and also "lots" to populate your inventory as drug shipments are received. For each drug you can also define multiple "templates" for various prescribing regimens using that drug.
When prescribing, you can select the desired drug from the drop-down. The "Prescribe and Dispense" button will generate a bottle label, for which you probably want to customize settings in includes/config.php.
For checkout, select the "Payment" option from "Popups" when you are working with a patient (this presents a different interface from the same selection when inhouse_pharmacy is not active). This lets you post payments for both services and drugs, and generates a receipt.
Thanks again, Rod. That option is what I looking for. I supossed that system allows me to classify the drugs in "families" or groups- using the codes. Am I right?
Templates are just shortcuts for the different ways to prescribe a drug. There is currently no grouping of drugs into larger categories, as might be appropriate if you stock a large variety of drugs, but something like that could be developed.
How can I add new fields to the patient history? I would like to have groups of data that normally we use in our clinics. For example, we have specifics questions for women who coming to the health centre looking for family planning services and products…
That would require some programming. You would need to modify some of the scripts in the interface/patient_file/history directory, and also add any additional required fields to the history_data table.
The script history.inc.php was a start on making this easier, and it would be good to move all of the history field attributes into it so that only one script has to be changed in the future for this type of customization. Currently it contains only the "last exam" items.
I have a pre-designed forms that we used to use in our PF clinics, one of them is the New Contraptive Acceptor form. I would like to add this form to the system as well others like SOAP.
I´ll appreciate help
(1) Start a new thread for this question, as it no longer relates to billing or inventory. This will help others who are later searching for answers to the same questions as yours.
(2) Ask a question that is more specific. Exactly what kind of help to you need?
