Just wanted to let the community know that a new community member, Girish, is looking at OpenEMR from a Business Analysis perpective. He’s been on several of the weekly conference calls and since I haven’t had time to make weekly conference call notes, I thought it would be a good idea to introduce him and his project via this post.
The stuff is a bit over my head, but it’s a really neat and unique perspective. Girish also plans to get his hands dirty in the code fixing bugs etc. that arise from the analysis; ie. a one man show. One of his interests is data sharing which is very applicable to OpenEMR and comes up quite a bit on the forums. Anyways, it’s exciting and there will be wiki pages soon filled with useful analysis and information.
Will use this forum thread to track the ongoing project.
Is this similar to something Tony posted sometime ago? The link referenced in that post did not work. So sadly I never got to see the scope of that project. We have several ‘apps’ that use emr login as a gateway to analytics engine that monitors / reports on standard benchmarks. It will be great to share ideas with someone working in same area.
I tried looking up the link to Tony’s message, it was a bit unclear. The goal is to achieve a world-class system, by reviewing both the functional, non-functional aspects, including LSS(Lean 6-sigma) to improve efficiency. The exciting aspect here is to incorporate LSS into the software which will be very creative. My effort would address simple bugs, look & feel, etc., as I use the software more, and address data sharing/mining. To understand the system really well, I will develop User level and Developer level training in parallel.
For non-standard changes, it would also address custom changes if any group wants it, by developing and driving the requirements to deployment.
I have started to put a user training together. I am trying to determine the minimum requirements for the OpenEMR to install, this would be memory, disk, CPU speed, Operating systems. Is the install possible on mobile, if so which platforms are supported?
The server side requires a web server with PHP, so generally that means a PC or laptop or cloud-based. Linux is encouraged but not required. Hardware requirements are very minimal just to install, but a production setup will want to start with about 4 GB memory and 20 GB disk. If you are storing document images then those will be the primary usage of disk, do the math for that. Any modern CPU will do, but more memory, more CPU and faster disk all mean better performance.
A backup system is vital. I recommend a second server similar to the above, in a separate location, for that purpose.
I wanted to know which SIC and NAICS codes apply to the OpenEMR latest version which is released. Just to be clear, this is the “as is” version with no modifications. A quick google search shows no consistency in these codes. Thanks in advance…