Documentation for Reminders API

OpenEMR Development
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iankit wrote on Friday, July 26, 2013:

Hi all

I am new to OpenEmr and I am trying to add a new custom feature by extending reminders functionality. If someone has worked on reminders, please guide me through the documentation.

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mdsupport wrote on Friday, July 26, 2013:

There seem to be several reminder approaches currently available in OpenEMR.

  1. Click on /openemr/modules/sms_email_reminder to details about appointment reminders to be sent by email or SMS. The SMS gateways documented there are useful for some but we use emails with cron jobs. This allows custom messages chosen from a table and with 4 variables inserted at run-time. That allows sending HTML encoded messages that look professional.

  • With CDR engine, the types of reminders that can be sent have increased (Administration -> Patient Reminders -> Process Reminders) but the message is hard-coded 1 liner which is confusing to patients.

  • With 4.1.2, background process scheduler is added so we hope all processes can be 'cron’ed.

  • With 4.1.2, there is DIRECT integration so the patient reminders can be more specific without HIPAA issues.

It would be great if you enhance one to be clear choice for someone new.