I am currently creating new forms and improving upon the forms that are included with OpenEMR. Going to be spending some time working on these so I wanted to reach out to the developer community and see if anyone had any forms they’d like me to focus on - either to create from scratch, or improve upon. Open to any suggestions!
Also, I’m planning on contributing these back to the project once I’ve completed them and finished testing them. I’m not very well acquainted with SourceForge repositories, but I see you have a mirror on GitHub. Can I submit pull requests to that repo? Is there anything else I should know with regards to contributing to the project? Please advise.
welcome to the group! Nice to hear you want to contribute.
Right now there are three different kind ways to create forms
In the Pop-up field left menus at the end there is Letter. Basic creation of forms with basic inputs.
There are Forms created by different Developers that can be found in Forms directory, these you have to make available from one directory into the working Directory. Make them available through administration and activate in the Database.
There is LBV-Forms a nice way to create a form from scratch. Not easy, but it works once you know what to do.
In the development OpenEMR version, you will find New Template Documents. Left menu all the way down under miscellaneous. With Open Office you can create “any” document of your likings, with inserting fields with {…} type of input.
Forms for any Medical Specialist would take the route 2. General and specific Forms like History, Eye exam, Pain score etc can be found here.
Thanks for your response! To create forms, I’ve based them off of the ‘example2’ provided in /contrib/forms/example2. I’ve got a fairly strong grasp of HTML, CSS, PHP, JS & SQL, so I don’t mind writing them from an example. Since I’m already familiar with this method now, I’ll stick with it.
I just had a quick review. Looks rather nice, but I am a user, not a Developer. Developers have different vision! Is there a GNU OpenSource issue? Is there somewhere a copyright on the Braden scale? OpenEMR is very strict in the opening text of every file. Probably you have to read Brady’s comment in many of the forums, or read all in the Developers advises.
I am a general Physician and have only occasionally encounters with bed ulcers. Sounds like a bad doctor, but my experience is that whatever needs to be done, it is the “change of position” that helps to prevent ulceration, not the scoring. Once ulceration has started it is as bad as it gets because prevention failed and you have to start working on the healing process.These are, my nomenclature, the gravity sores. Diabetic sores and Venous ulcers have their own problems and treatment is of same difficulty and almost never a quick cure.
I did not see it in your Form (I only had a quick review), there might be something to include like Change of color, size of the Ulcer and location. Could be something like the Pain Score Form available in OpenEMR. Also a part for History and Treatment success…
I’ve created The Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk form as a request from some of the faculty I work with at Bellevue College. Honestly, I know very little of clinical/medical practice. I’m just a lowly developer looking to donate some time back to a project that has been very beneficial to my work group. That is why I wanted to see if anyone in the community here might express a need for a specific form they deem useful to the project.
There is a copyright agreement with The Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk form. I’ve submitted a request for permission. They’ve got very simple terms:
The Braden Scale will be used as written without changing the wording or scoring of the document.
The full name of the tool, The Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk, will be used on any reproduction of the tool.
The copyright will be used on any reproductions, copies and reprints of the tool and should read, “Copyright. Barbara Braden and Nancy Bergstrom, 1988. Reprinted with permission. All Rights Reserved.”
The Braden Scale will be used only for the approved purpose. Any use of the tool in publications (other than internal policy manuals and training material) or for profit-making ventures requires additional permission and/or negotiation.
Unfortunately that doesn’t sound compatibile with the GPL, so we couldn’t include it in the OpenEMR distribution. You’d need to plan for it to be distributed and installed separately.