anonymous wrote on Monday, January 26, 2009:
Appreciate your help.
1. Is there a way we can sign-off the SOAP or medical transcript?
2. Can I do co-sign for other physician/RN?
cfapress wrote on Monday, January 26, 2009:
Hi Tadis,
The SOAP, and other forms, that can be attached to an Encounter are slightly outside the main scope of OpenEMR. There are some ‘core’ forms but many are user contributed and thus not under review of the OpenEMR developers. This is a benefit to the community as many forms can be added along the way. It’s a detriment because the forms might not work or be useless.
For your specific request, the SOAP form would need some changes to it’s PHP code and the SQL table behind the scenes. Nothing terribly complicated. However, it needs somebody comfortable with PHP and SQL. We can offer help with this in the developer’s forum, here on Sourceforge.
When you ask about a co-sign is that just another signature line on the same form?
Jason
anonymous wrote on Monday, January 26, 2009:
Jason,
Yes, we need another signature line on the SOAP note along with another physician/RN signature. I think 3 signature lines should be enough. Thanks for looking at it.
In the SOAP notes, line breaks are not appearing in the reports. How can we adjust them?
For example if I am writing as:
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
it is appearing in a single line as
Line 1 Line 2 Line 3
Thanks,
Tadisetti
cfapress wrote on Tuesday, January 27, 2009:
Tadisetti,
Thanks for the clarification.
I’ll look at the SOAP form over the next few days and make improvements. Our Agency is beginning to use the form and will likely have similar comments.
In the meantime, if you have a proficient PHP coder then you can make changes yourself. The files you would need to look at are in:
<openemr>/interface/forms/soap/
The original developer used PHP Smarty templates so the code is a little tricky to read through. I’d expect a good coder to be able to customize the form to your specifications within a single day, at the most.
Jason