Hello,
I have looked at the user manuals, and general FAQ for Open EMR and could not find more information on the following:
1) Does Open EMR support e-Prescribing ?
If so, is anyone currently using it to send electronic prescriptions to RxHub or other pharmacy order processing hubs?
2) Does OpenEMR have a Lab Module for sending lab order electronicaly to Quest or other service providers?
3) Is there a HL7 interface to Open EMR for interfacing OpenEMR with other systems?
4) Does it support auto processing of EOB - ERA ?
5) What are the ANSI HIPAA transactions currently supported by Open EMR ?
Thanks for any info or pointers to the above questions.
I’m not the ideal person to answer these questions, but since there’s been no response from anybody for several days figured a little is better than nothing.
Re item 4; as an MBA (more bucks associated I am probably more attuned to 4 than anything else
Except for Medicare EDI, which seems determined to provide full employment to people with colored markers who PREVENT EDI, all the needed EDI HIPAA claims data is included in the X12 submittals by default. In our case, specifically UHC/UBH and Aetna use the same portal, and it has some inconsistencies which caused rejects which were perfectly acceptable at others’. I detailed them elsewhere in the forums, and their workarounds, but if you have specifics, I can give you specific ways to fix them. For me the easiest was to simply test against the payer codes, and if matched, the changes substitute for default code and the problems go away. One specific was the default "onset" date in the Encounter. Since the clinician cannot usually know, they leave it blank. But that leaves a zero for the month, which that portal does not like (although it took some detective work to figure it out, since the messages gave no such indication, and their techs hadn’t a clue either ;-). So when that payer comes up, we simply overwrite with the date of service there in the X12, but leave the real data as-is. There is a similar problem in the codes for relationships, but again only for that portal, and the fix is another substitution only into the X12.
Note that this ability to do discrete fixing is the PRIMARY advantage of open-source over proprietary systems, to say nothing of the price which is simply no comparison. Hope that helps.
I am probably more attuned to 4 than anything else