ICD-9 installation (+ query re SNOMED-CT)

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ahmadrisk wrote on Monday, August 23, 2010:

OpenEMR 3.2 installation on a Windows Server 2008 R2.

i followed the various threeads about getting ICD-9 to load, and the useful instructions from Brady. however, I may be missing something! does the OpenEMR come with ICD-9 included? If not, then I guess one will have to download it (CVS? Excel? Other format?) and somehow put it somewhere in the installation, right? If so, how?

Incidentally, what if I wish to install a different classification, say, the UK Clinical Terms (Read codes) or even SNOMED-CT? Is there a mechanism for that?

Thank you

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bradymiller wrote on Tuesday, August 24, 2010:

hey,

You need to install the ICD9 codes. There is a script that will scrape them from a website, and the Windows isntructions to use this script (will install ICD9 codes) can be found here:
http://www.openmedsoftware.org/wiki/Load_ICD9_Codes#WINDOWS_INSTRUCTIONS

I’m guessing SNO-MED could potentially be done. Not sure if anybody has tried. Would involve at least mods to the:
In 4.0 mods to the Administraion->Lists->Code Types
In 3.2 mods to the openemr/custom/code_types.inc.php file

-brady

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cverk wrote on Tuesday, August 24, 2010:

You download open perl and run the setup program to configure it. Running PERL.exe opens a dos type order box.  That is not where you enter the script from the article.  You have to open a regular dos command box in windows.  Once you change the order lines in the htdocs/openemr/contrib/util/load_icd9_desc.plx file  so you get 2010 codes, you have to copy it to be under htdocs/openemr/contrib to make it run. To find the user names to enter in load_icd9_desc you need to look at the web page for localhost/security.