drbowen wrote on Tuesday, June 26, 2007:
“Today he and I were going through some help docs trying to learn openemr.
The docs were for ver 2.8.1 and not 2.8.2 ( cant find any new ones ).”
The docs do not get updated as frequently as the releases. General use is almost always identical.
1) CPT4 Code search don’t seem to work???
The CPT codes are owned by the AMA and as such do not have licensing that is compatible with the OpenEMR’s use of the General GPL. They have to be purchased separately from the AMA and then uploaded into the database.
“2)The doc’s we were following refered to a “Fee Sheet”, we cannot find this page. Was it omitted in 2.8.2?”
No. There are a number of forms that are included with OpenEMR that are historically included as “contributions”. These are enabled by doing the following:
On the main page go to Administration -> Forms
At the bottom will be a number of useful forms that can be enabled, one of these is the “Fee Sheet”.
Register -> Install DB -> Enable
Personally, I think Rod Roark has been too humble by not promoting his “Fee Sheet” into the standard install instead of a “contribution”.
“3)Where do you customize add new issues at? “
Adding Medical Problems, Medications etc. become “issues”.
And #4, the most alarming one.
We had entered 2 patients, me and Dr. Nick.
I was patient #1.
We had entered my all my demographics etc…a couple of scheduled office visits, couple of encounters etc…
Then we went back to schedule another appointment, all my information was gone!!!
It did keep my family history, my scheduled office visits with no name, but ALL my demographic data was erased.
This is definitely weird and should not have happened. I’m hoping one or more developer will chip in to help answer this one.
I have never had any data be erased. I have have had data appear to be erased under certain circumstances.
I wonder… This sounds like maybe there are two similar records one with the demographics and one without. Look in the database:
Administration -> Database ->
Click on:
patient_data
Then “Browse” patient_data.
You should have the two initial patients listed. Do you have 3 patients?
It is possible that while you are trying to add new data that you unintentionally created two Brian’s. One Brian without demographic data and one with. In OpenEMR, there is nothing wrong with having multiple patients with identical names. Usually, you can tell them appart based on different demographics.
If you unintentionally created two Brian’s, added demographics to the first but not the second. Searching for Brian may cause the second Brian to be listed first because of the way computers do searches. (null comes before A).
Take a look in the patient_data table under database and see how many Brians are actually listed?
Sam Bowen, MD