sunsetsystems wrote on Sunday, December 31, 2006:
The hardest part of putting out a new release is coming up with a list of all the new features and fixes. Finally, I spent most of today making such a list. I’m putting it here in case anyone would like to add/remove/change any items on it.
Also someone mentioned they were working on translation updates, but I’ve not seen any followup yet. Should I still hold up for that?
Here’s the list:
Major new features:
* New encounter forms: several for ob/gyn and mental health, Body Composition, Football Injury, Hist/Exam/Plan, Scanned Notes, Physical Exam, and CAMOS (for generating orders), and some older forms resurrected from prior OpenEMR versions.
* New reports: Collections report, Unique Seen Patients, Sales By Item, Receipts by Payment Method, Patient List, Patient Appointments.
* New optional frame-based layout for improved workflow.
* Added support for dispensing and inventory management of in-house drugs, and point-of-sale cash checkout.
* Added general-purpose fax and scanner support.
* New address book module, useful for referrals.
* Added php5 compatibility.
* Added MySQL 5 compatibility.
* Added experimental X12 835 remittance processing for primary claims.
* Changes to facilitate printing multiple prescriptions per page and adding prescriptions to the medication list.
Other new features:
* Language translation improvements.
* Added ability for certain non-practitioners to authorize charges and other entries.
* Added auto-create of new encounter when the patient arrives.
* Added ability to invoke the Fee Sheet from other encounter forms (useful to forms developers).
* Added ability to specify a default encounter form.
* Optional cash collection and receipt feature added to the copay panel.
* Support for deleting of individual encounter forms.
* Support for deleting documents.
* Support for arranging forms into categories.
* Support for branding of the OpenEMR name.
* Reworked patient statements to show more detail.
* Alphabetic sorting of patient statements and the EOB Search page.
* Added a couple of input options to the EOB Search page.
* In globals.php: some cosmetic improvements, better defaults, and more helpful explanations of parameters.
* Configurable paper size and margins via config.php.
* Option to show the event description in the calendar.
* Patient DOB added to prescriptions.
* Permit a non-numeric prescription quantity.
* Improved formatting for phone numbers.
* Added a couple of simplification and hipaa options for demographics and prescriptions.
* Added a default prescription dispensing quantity.
* Added support for default pharmacies for patients.
* Added facility name, address and fax to prescription print display.
* Allowed users to be flagged inactive.
* Added referral source option in New Encounter form for new patients
* Added option to see all practitioners by default in the calendar.
* New feature to add missing patient DOB from the event editor.
* Calendar updates: support for a preferred category in IN event, and some visual improvements.
* A new and improved date widget.
* Patch from Michael Brinson to retain selected users in the calendar display.
* Improved calendar date selection, and retaining of the last viewed calendar date.
* Ability to specify a default encounter form.
* Support for encounter sensitivity levels.
* Option for a one-column fee sheet.
* More information is shown in the title area for the current patient.
* Permit spaces in event category names.
* Improvements to attributes of issues.
* Option to omit insurance information from demographics.
* Added pharmacy phone to patient demographics.
* Added drivers license number to patient demographics.
* Added "Billing" type for patient transactions.
* Support for more document types in patient reports.
* Added option in the Cash Receipts report to report on just one billing code.
Bug fixes:
* Fixed a billing bug where deleted payments could be picked up.
* Fixed bug which could cause the Documents page not to show.
* Fix bug with IE displaying PDFs.
* Fixed a bug with moving documents across patients when the target patient’s pubpid != pid.
* Fixed billing data showing as needing authorization when it was already authorized.
* Fixed bug in dropdown to list facilities.
* Fixed bug with saved into not loaded into new encounter form.
* Assorted corrections to the fee sheet.
* Fixed bug in use of end date for deactivation of issues.
* Fix from os2doc where duplicate encounter numbers with different PIDs were not considered.
* Fixed bug in patient reports where forms where not listed under the correct encounter.
* Various others.
