Multiple medical specialties

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dralauraconti wrote on Friday, June 14, 2013:

Hi

I’ve been reading the online documentation but couldn’t find out if OpenEMR supports multiple medical specialties (surgical and clinical, both ambulatory): Pediatric, Ob-Gyn, Psychology, General Surgeons, Odontologists, Family Phisician, etc.

Also, how difficult could be to add special features depending on user’s (doctor’s) specialty?

Thanks a lot in advance,

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juggernautsei wrote on Saturday, June 15, 2013:

You really won’t find any documentation on supporting a specific type of specialty. OpenEMR will support any type of specialty. We that have signed on as support providers are the ones that make the system do what the clients wants done. It is not terribly hard to support a specific specialty. It is all about the specific documentation that the specialty needs. There are many forms in the contrib folder that are for certain specialties.

If you are a coder, it is not hard at all to add specialties. You can use the contrib folder as a template for how to create forms. The power in OpenEMR is the ability to create any kind of form that a specialty may need. The Layout Based Forms or LBF is especially powerful and can lend itself to all kinds of documentation. We have taken the LBF and created a very elaborate Q & A that in the end generates a PDF note that is tailored to the cardiologist’s specification. It took 6 months to tweak it just the way he wanted but we did it.

OpenEMR give anyone no matter how little or how much knowledge they have the power to create. That is the greatest power of this system. I have been creating with it for three years now. I could say more but …

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fsgl wrote on Saturday, June 15, 2013:

The Practice Management portion of OpenEMR does not need customization because irrespective of the specialty, we all bill and get paid the same way.

The difference lies in how we record our medical records.

Being only an end user, I am not cognizant of templates for other specialties in the developers’ library. Take a look for yourself.

I have contributed a few Layout Based Visit forms for Ophthalmology. Tony McCormick posted the ophthalmology_lbv.sql file to the Wiki, so it is not necessary to re-do the forms by hand.

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kodusote wrote on Sunday, June 16, 2013:

Can you give the link for downloading the ophthalmology_lbv.sql file posted by Tony?

Thanks.

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fsgl wrote on Monday, June 17, 2013:

Sorry, not being a developer I don’t know where Tony posted that file.

I expect to correspond with him in the near future and will ask him about it. It will be posted here after his reply.

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tmccormi wrote on Wednesday, June 19, 2013:

Just to update everyone else, we are still working on cleaning this SQL
file up so it will load cleanly.

Tony

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Kayode Odusote kodusote@users.sf.netwrote:

Can you give the link for downloading the ophthalmology_lbv.sql file
posted by Tony?

Thanks.

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