mdsupport wrote on Wednesday, May 04, 2011:
Originally we used Microsoft Access. We are now testing a php script that front office accesses from the Reports menu to upload the Excel file. After showing the preview of the updates, they update the daily prescriptions in EMR filled by everyone in the office including the responses to the pharmacy originated prescriptions….
tmccormi wrote on Wednesday, May 04, 2011:
mdsupport: That’s great!
Are you willing to
1) Share that tool
2) Work with OEMR and your contact for NationalERX to help us pass certification using this model?
-Tony
mdsupport wrote on Thursday, May 05, 2011:
1. As I stated earlier, I am sure that this is not a good approach because of the manual downloading + uploading the Excel reports. But we can always share our code may be by early next week after bit of cleanup.
A caveat here - we use the PHPExcel libraries under GNU license. Hope that is not an issue.
2. We did not need anything special from Allscripts since we use a standard report. In the past when we had contacted them for other alternatives, understandably they kept pushing their Allscripts EHR. But if there is anything we can do towards OEMR certification, we would be glad to contribute.
Thx.
bradymiller wrote on Thursday, May 12, 2011:
yehster,
Are you still working on your eprescription solution?
-brady
yehster wrote on Thursday, May 12, 2011:
It sounds like mdsupport has a better handle on this issue than I do. I am not actively working on this at present.
mdsupport wrote on Saturday, May 21, 2011:
Pushed 4 files to git. If you are already using the free eprescribing solution from Allscripts, this batch interface will import the prescriptions in EMR. Since the exports are in Excel format, you need to install phpExcel libraries for the interface to work.
https://github.com/mdsupport/openemr/commit/5cfe09b97d27d953827b8f5fa77439927420c121
biller2 wrote on Wednesday, June 29, 2011:
There doesn’t look like there has been much activity here. Is this still a viable solution? The doctor I work for has a Allscripts ePrescribe (the free version) account. I was wondering if these files that were pushed to get are including with oemr software and if so is it possible to start using it. Thanks in advance for any info John
mdsupport wrote on Thursday, June 30, 2011:
biller2:
This is not a standard tool. We use it on an interim basis until fully certified openemr is released and stable. In the meanwhile we imported about 2.5 years of prescriptions and medications history in openemr using this. And now the data is updated twice daily without manual data entry errors.
If you decide to give it a try, we can post current revisions.
biller2 wrote on Thursday, June 30, 2011:
mdsupport, thank you very much for the quick response. I will wait until the fully certified openemr is released and stable. I was just checking to see if this option with Allscripts ePrescribe was still available. Thanks again for your response and your work on this part. John
penguin8r wrote on Tuesday, July 12, 2011:
I seem to always end up reviving dormant threads. What’s the official status report for ePrescribing with OpenEMR?
Will it be included whenever the 4.1 stable release comes out, or has it been pushed back farther?
What can we do to help with beta testing out in the real world?
tmccormi wrote on Tuesday, July 12, 2011:
Please read the wiki page for the current status of the 3-4 eRx soultions that are in progress.
http://wiki.oemr.org/wiki/OpenEMR_Certification#E-Prescribing
-tony
bradymiller wrote on Thursday, July 21, 2011:
hey,
The NewCrop e-Prescribing Module was just committed to the official codebase. This code was contributed by Z&H Healthcare and MI2.
-brady
markhi2 wrote on Monday, July 25, 2011:
Sorry if I am overly confused (being new to OpenEMR). Does this extract from Tony’s status:
MI2/ZHH collaboration - NewCrop - (172 hrs)
Go-live testing happened 7/5/2011, passed with NewCrop, waiting on Sure Scripts to scheduled next phase which is a formality. -Tony - www.mi-squared.com 01:56, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
mean that the NewCrop e-Prescribing module has been certified for effective use?
markhi2 wrote on Monday, July 25, 2011:
sorry. meant meaningful use.
tmccormi wrote on Tuesday, July 26, 2011:
Not yet. Testing is this Thursday (28th) for the rest of the Meaningful Use modules. If we are lucky we will get ALL the testing done on Thursday night, if not it will be continued until it is. In any case the official OEMR 501c3 version of OpenEMR 4.1 will be a fully certified EHR in the next couple of weeks. Then we have to officially release it….
-Tony
penguin8r wrote on Tuesday, July 26, 2011:
OK, grabbed a fresh copy of 4.1-dev from Github, I see the little box for E-Prescription? in the Add RX interface, but where does that come from? Shouldn’t there be somewhere in the user settings & Globals to configure your connection to your e-prescribing service?
Pardon the stupid question, didn’t see anything in the Wiki or docs about it.
tmccormi wrote on Tuesday, July 26, 2011:
When we are done with the certification(s) we will post information about how to subscribe to eRX through Medical Information Integration (mi-squared) or Z&H Healthcare Services. The basic configuration area in in admin->globals->connectors … before it can be used you will need:
NewCrop eRx Partner Name (Production)
NewCrop eRx Name (Production)
NewCrop eRx Password (Production)
-Tony
penguin8r wrote on Tuesday, July 26, 2011:
Thanks Tony. I didn’t see any of those options in globals. I guess maybe the code in Github is a little behind what you guys were using for certification. I’ll wait a while & sync from Github again, see if it’s there.
bradymiller wrote on Wednesday, July 27, 2011:
hi,
Official github repo is updated from sourceforge every 30 minutes:
http://github.com/openemr/openemr
-brady
bradymiller wrote on Wednesday, July 27, 2011:
Tony,
Recommend mi-squared or Z&H placing a wiki page with quick instructions (ie. can be just call this number) in the http://www.openmedsoftware.org/wiki/Main_Page#User_Manuals secion of wiki
-brady