OhMD is a secure text messaging app. On their website it states that it is actually integrated with OpenEMR, among other EMRs. Anyone knows how to activate/use it within OpenEMR? Any specifics on this?
Thanks,
Alex.
So is WhatsApp however in this case I don’t know who did this project but will say it is not part of OpenEMR.
It was probably custom done by a vendor that used the OpenEMR brand for marketing purposes.
We have a SMS messaging module(Twilio) that is set up to support other messaging, email and fax vendors with a little effort. Hopefully if the vendor that did this decides to contribute it to the community there are modular resources in OpenEMR.
Hello Jerry & everyone
We have joined Twilio and entered the username and key into the module. However, we are having issues finding a way to use it to text our patients. Can you direct us on how to do it. We have looked but can’t find a clear set of instruction on how to use it.
TIA
Hi @CalvinTy
Three main uses for SMS module
- Appointment reminders
- Reply from module received messages from appointment reminder or patient cell.
- Send message from Portal Documents template Patient Assigned Templates status table. e.g. nudge patient to complete a questionnaire.
You may run appointment reminders from the modules Activity menu.
Reply to any reply by patient to reminder in modules Received tab.
Portal Template maintenance
edit: Forgot to mention that this notification sends a one-time token to patient that will auto log them into their portal then take them to and render the document in question by notification. An example email notification:
We have other cool stuff in development like
- FHIR SMART App for sending SMS notification with one-time links to a portal document or SMS that gives a questionnaire or set of questionnaires to complete by clicking link to allow patient to complete outside of portal.
- Batch portal document action request notifications to patient.
- Sending SMS to patient from portal dashboard secure messaging feature.
- SMS from demographic.
- and so on…
We need community support to continue building and improving these features.
Hope this helps!
Btw: Just found a bug in the reply to patient reminder dialog that i’ll fix next patch…
