roodepa wrote on Thursday, November 14, 2013:
Hi
I’m from South Africa and am trying to customize the emr application for physicians locally. Problem is I do not know how to customize the languages, ethnicity and race in the stats section when editing patient demographics or when adding a new patient. Can you help please to change info to what is relevant here at home. Thanks
Pat
blankev wrote on Thursday, November 14, 2013:
What do you want to change?
Administration => List => Change:
Race /
Ethnicity AND/OR
Race/Ethnicity
To my understanding Ethnicity is more a social group and Race is something like Negro, Asian, Indian. (Or try a search on Google or WIKI to be sure.)
In Curacao we have so much inter-marriage that it is impossible to decide if an illness is due to race genes without doing a complete DNA.
Another advise might be to ask Sam Bowen(?), he has friends using OpenEMR in South Africa, responsible for some of the translation languages (ZULU).
fsgl wrote on Thursday, November 14, 2013:
The 2 options for Ethnicity, Hispanic vs. Non-Hispanic, was an invention of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, a U.S. federal agency, for the purpose of Meaningful Use. On the 2010 U.S. Census form, there were many more categories to choose from.
If the items in Race or Race/Ethnicity are not useful, adjust the Lists to South African standards. Under Race/Ethnicity there is no listing for Afrikaner and the Black listing is rather non-specific and inadequate.
There is no reason to adhere to U.S. standards.
Keep the ones you want, delete the unwanted and add the needed.
roodepa wrote on Friday, November 15, 2013:
Thank you guys. My question was for pull statistics from the application. If at the end of the year or month the physicians would want to see were most of his clients comes from, which demography, he will be able to see whether the bulk of his patients were african, brown, asian or white and could than organise his business accordingly. Thats it.
Thanks Pieter
blankev wrote on Friday, November 15, 2013:
Remember: Health is not about Black or White it is about health-condition, whatever this may be. So the Demographic results can have a huge impact for the health care. Partly because Ethnicity is playing it’s role as does Race.
Please keep us updated of the results of your statistics and how you did improve OpenEMR to get the results you wanted and the difference you got.
(May be fsgl can jump in: There used to be a menu option to find the different groups that are clients of the Office active and inactive clients with a differentiation into Rac, Ethnicity or disease. I could not find it back for sure, but it could be under Insurance and indigenous.)
fsgl wrote on Friday, November 15, 2013:
Hi Pimm,
It’s in Reports/Clients/Clinical.
Thanks for telling Patrick about it. Now he can run a report with any permutations of the the listed parameters.
roodepa wrote on Friday, November 15, 2013:
Ya guys thanks a ton.
With the Administration => List => future I could even change State to Provinces and remove all US states and replace it with the names of the Provinces here at home. So a couple of changes needed to be made to make it relevant to my country. So it help alot.
fsgl wrote on Friday, November 15, 2013:
Is OpenEMR (and developers) brilliant or what?
Who knows, maybe we will have it in Afrikaans, Zulu and Xhosa in the future.
roodepa wrote on Friday, November 15, 2013:
We would like that.
I have seen propriety software with not nearly as much funtions as with openEMR. Its nice to twist and tweak something to ones own tast.
That being said - could you help with another please? I want to edit the layout of the edit facility form. I have tried layout but ca’nt see anything and tried list as well as languages for terminologies. Nothing.
Can you be great again? 
blankev wrote on Friday, November 15, 2013:
Dear FSGL,
please advise, I will be offline till Sunday. Sounds complicated for a thing that might be available in a little changed layout.
blankev wrote on Friday, November 15, 2013:
Do remember to start working with Administration => Database => Export and Import Table contents.
It is so much quicker to make a long list in a spreadsheet and than import it as CSV file.
But be careful. Some tables have connections and can only be changed in a NEW-OpenEMR setting.
fsgl wrote on Friday, November 15, 2013:
Hi Patrick,
You will have to get into the codes to change the layout of Edit Facility. I don’t know how to do that. Let us know what is it that you want to change and we will try to come up with a work-around.
Pimm,
We will say a prayer if you have a sad duty.
blankev wrote on Friday, November 15, 2013:
Back to work as a general Practitioner is hardly a sad duty. I was in Holland to receive our fourth grand child in good health. Great experience. Nothing sad to say a prayer for, specialy not for me. Please say a prayer for all those who are less fortunate than I me.
roodepa wrote on Saturday, November 16, 2013:
Hi guys.
Congrats Pimm on the arrival of your grand child. May our good Lord bless him/her with a blessed life. We had lots of rain last night into the early morning and at such times I think of those on the street and wish I could do more.
FSGL you were right. I had to get into the code in the user group directory to edit the facility_admin.php file. It worked.
Thanks
roodepa wrote on Saturday, November 16, 2013:
I need to lables and text boxes on the form.
I need to add the practise number of the facility, a VAT number and Tax number, all in plain text boxes.
fsgl wrote on Saturday, November 16, 2013:
Congratulations, Pimm.
A new grandbaby is such a delight.
How wonderful that you could personally welcome the child into the world.
If you have Little Darling’s picture, please consider sharing it with us.
fsgl wrote on Saturday, November 16, 2013:
Hi Patrick,
Didn’t see your post above.
Great that work-around is not necessary.