I am creating an open emr for physical therapy and would like to use the same template of open emr for each new client. Experimenting with the template I changed the name of the template and put it up on the server(joesphysicaltherapy) and them changed the same template to billsphycaltherapy and put it up on the same server and noticed that each one mirrored the other site.
when I changed the name on one it showed up as a change in the other template.
My question is does each new client that I secure have to be on a separate server or is there a way to make this work using one single hipaa compliant server or do I have to create a new open-emr for each client? Meaning do i have to create the new LBFs for each new client which would take hours each time I secured a new client
Any good suggestions would be helpful.
If you are going to have multiple legal entities, you should run separate installations running on same server. The databases can have joesphysicaltherapy and billsphycaltherapy as names.
The LBFs are in a db table. If you are absolutely certain that both joesphysicaltherapy and billsphycaltherapy will always have same forms, you could replicate tables from a ‘master’ or developer database. Or … develop a patching mechanism for layout elements.
Here is my two cents worth. MD Support is right about two offices being alike. Most of us has experienced that most offices are different in little ways. So, the forms will differ a little here and a little there. The thing that ends up being the template is the OpenEMR.
I have 8 instance of OpenEMR on one server and everything is working fine. I have a naming convention for the databases so that I know which one belongs to what practice. Keep good records and review the thread on backups. It can be a career saver.
I figured it out last night that they both need a separate database for each project. thanks for the help and sorry about being so stupid to not figure that out when I did it.