New Patient Entry
allows letters and numbers in the phone number fields. Error checking on data entry would be a major plus.
Email Entry
Can enter an email without an @. Need some error checking on that field too.
Race Ethnicity - This should be two fields we should be using format based upon US Census beareau. I sent this to someone once I can resend let me know who is managing this part of the code.
Visit Entry
When Adding an Issue that is a problem for a patient, It should list the diagnosis codes that have been added (ICD9) in the services section.
We will need a section that allows for management of problem lists. This needs to be ICD9 based.
So all problems for patients should be ICD9 based.
In the demo area I added diagnosis 703.0 - Ingrown Toe Nail.
I added myself as a patient.
I should be able to create a visit that is linked to Ingrown Toe Nail for me.
This is IMPORTANT for reporting functions that will be needed later.
eg Report - Show all patients who have been treated for an ingrown toe nail.
Hopefully I am clear on what I am saying.
Will continue playing over the weekend. Time for Coffee.
Are you guys gonna be able to pump out the 3.2.0 manual (I know there’s a lot of other cool stuff going on). Only changes I note are the title name and some calendar screenshots (default calendar is now outlook). I have several translators interested in internationalizing it, and they’ll need time to translate it (as an aside, plan to have them translate the text files from the html output).
Apostrophe input/output errors and magic quotes (whether magic quotes is turned on or off) are now considered bugs also (hopefully they don’t exit anymore). Go to town with these and let me know if find problems anywhere.
The Issues in Encounters, as well as the management of the problems categories is all handled in the …/custom/clickoptions.txt file. If you check my writeup on Using the Fee Sheet, you can see how to populate that easily so your ICD9 description will also display when you select an issue. We find it a critical tool. Ideally we will someday link directly to the Superbill (Admin - Services in tree view), but for now that is the power way to do things. Hope that helps.
Sound stupid but I can’t find my charges screen in OpenEMR V3.1 so I don’t know if I would miss this option. From my mental harddisc I seem to remember that I want it on. But I don’t have hard evidence.
After speaking to several people on the user side of the EMR system, one tiny issue surfaced and that was the use of the word “NOTES” under the MEDICAL RECORD section. It seems that the word NOTE continues to be translated on the user side to “CLINIC NOTES” not internal notes. I wonder if we could change, for the 3.2 release, that word to another one such as “Office Comments” or “Sticky Notes” etc.
Is there a way to remove the “Balance Due” from the Patient Summary page? That is being viewed by some clinics as negative for thier doctors to see when seeing patients.
in the POPUPS menu choice and for Generating “Letter”, is it possible to include for choices:
FROM - EMAIL
TO - EMAIL
PATIENT - EMAIL
Since many communications goes now by email it would be easy to have the choice of printing the “Letter” or send a quick e-mail reminder that a “Letter” is comming, for sending a reminder about printed Letters.
I can change it everytime in my own version, but think it is could be a positive for many Users.
3.2 is for bug fixes and stabilization of code that is already in CVS. It will not have Advance Directives or any of the other new features from the certification project.