lemoene wrote on Thursday, December 20, 2012:
On the 40 000 subscriber strong LIMS Forum group, under the subject ‘Order Everyone More Ritalin: Open EMR Training Guide Preview, the Installation’. http://lnkd.in/gfaWB3.
Bests
lemoene
Apologies if this post is directed at the wrong audience, I could not easily find a direct contact address.
yehster wrote on Thursday, December 20, 2012:
I’m guessing that “Rebecca” who had so much trouble with installation went to the OEMR.org website for download rather than open-emr.org. Unfortunately the OEMR.org website lacks the same easy access to the installation instruction from the download page that are present on open-emr.org site.
bradymiller wrote on Friday, December 21, 2012:
Hi,
This is actually a rather common issue (I get regular emails stemming from this issue), which I brought up frequently in the past. Guess I should of written a blog if I wanted to get an instruction set linked to that download page 
-brady
OpenEMR
bradymiller wrote on Friday, December 21, 2012:
Hi,
All joking/teasing aside, sounds like a simple link to the installation instructions from the download page should suffice to remedy this issue (which appears to have already been added). Another very cool thing that I noted in the linkedin group thread is that there is actually a paid course to learn OpenEMR here: http://www.click2elearn.com/openemr-tutorials.php
(that’s pretty awesome to see)
-brady
OpenEMR
lemoene wrote on Thursday, January 10, 2013:
Are you really going to work with these people? See their latest at http://lnkd.in/WX_T_N
Our LIMS is also listed for their ‘science cloud’ but i really don’t know how to deal with the Wall street greed in their attitude. Ideas?
yehster wrote on Thursday, January 10, 2013:
Dr. Bowen mentioned having talked with someone new about “lab stuff” at the OEMR ad-hoc meeting this past Tuesday. Don’t remember who he said he talked to, but it might be the same thing.
donelewis wrote on Thursday, January 10, 2013:
I made a VB6 tool to populate orders with patient demographics in Quests 360 portal if that might help.
bradymiller wrote on Thursday, January 10, 2013:
Hi,
Also not sure what they are offering (maybe this was the server side include stuff that Dr. Bowen was talking about in the Tuesday conference as yehster mentioned) to integrate into OpenEMR or what their business model is. On a more global level, not sure if politically charged pieces are an effective way to cement a solid backing, though
-brady
OpenEMR
bradymiller wrote on Thursday, January 10, 2013:
Hi donelewis,
Can you provide a couple more details on your solution (ie. what is VB6).
thanks,
-brady
OpenEMR
donelewis wrote on Friday, January 11, 2013:
Sure, we temporarily (VERY) solved the integration with Quest Labs by taking out the task of re-typing patient demographics to place an order for a new patient in Quest’s Portal Care360. This is a dirty solution because it is not a true connection with a web service….but a work around until we get enough clients to interest Quest in the regular implementation. This has been done so far with Visual Basic 6 (VB6) in our Windows platform talking to SQL Server but could be done again using a connection string to MySQL on another server. We have blended OpenEMR with our practice management system and Internet Hospitals. Ok, here’s the steps.
1. The Application in VB6 is used to select the desired patient (Like from patient_data table)
2. Then it opens a Browser Control to Quest Care360 and the doctor logs in.
3. Then if the patient is not already a patient in Quest’s system you choose ADD PATIENT
4. Then you click a PASTE button we created in the VB Browser control and it reads the patient data
and populates most all the demographic data on the web page. Which saves lots of typing!
The next obvious thing we do is allow them to read a RESULTS report, copy the report into a rich text box and insert it with a click into the same patient folder from step 1. So, then the report can be found in the patient’s folder without having to re-open Quest Care 360. Since the RESULTS report is HTML it could easily be written to a memo field in a documents table somewhere in OpenEMR. We also store any electronic file in Binary form in our patient database.
So, the idea is, you take out steps and have a common place to read information about the patient in OPENEMR
We do this method to integrate with Insurance Eligibility sites.
We also can capture the screen anytime and put it as an image in a patient folder….nice for integrating with other websites, hospital portals, old software like for EKGs, ultrasounds, etc.