We recently have been working at upgrading our production server to the new Graphical User Interface in the 3.3 developmental tip. The tab version makes navigation very convenient and I very much appreciate the work Tony McCormick and his group at MI2 have put in on this. We really like the new interface (pre-release 4.0).
I did notice a couple of bugs.
1) When we enter medications they don’t show up in the pop-up windows. We have to go back into the main patient screen to see the changes? I am not sure is this is intended or can be modified.
2) On the Encounter Screen where we are adding information to the form I was hoping that the Problem List would be visible on the right side panel to avoid having to page back and forth between the form screen and the summary screen.
while the first issue doesn’t concern us (mental health, not yet using the prescription module), the second change is going to be a step back for us.
our clients have a presented list of isues diagnosed at the diagnostic assessment. i’m not sure reflecting this on the ‘encounters’ page is going to be something that will do more than distract our users.
the GUI refactor is truely awesome. i like the tabbed approach, and have a bug to add about it, as well:
if you run out of tabs (create a whole bunch of sections on the demographics page), the tabs wrap around, and the open tab causes the tab that wrapped to *move*.
the only other complaint about the GUI refactor, is since i am trying to replace the history page with a xmlformgen generated page, i have to re-code to match the new GUI.
<insert standard plea from *last* *summer* for someone to look at what i’m doing here>
The 3.3 devtip is the ‘pre-release’ 4.0. To see what’s coming look through the CCHIT Meaningful Use certification project and other active project pages on the www.openmedsoftware.org site. While the focus for CCHIT is USA ARRA certification, the is almost nothing in it that is not generally, “Meaningful” in the practice of medicine.
Are there significant Schema changes between 3.2.0 Release and the devtip? Curious if I can just point a new webserver at an existing 3.2.0 MySQL install and have everything work “out of box.”
I can confirm that development tip does not run on a database of even development tip a few months ago. there have been a lot of field additions, and even table additions for the new ‘procedures’ ordering system.
I have a client who is also in Mental Health and we had to do qute a few custom modifications which I will be uploading shortly for public use. It will be interesting to talk and exchange notes if it is OK with you. I can call you or you call me at 916-749-6202.
I have been testing 3.2 & recently just loaded up 3.3 for testing. What would a rough guestimate be on when 3.3 development will be complete and 4.0 will be released?
3.3 is 4.0 (we just haven’t changed the version yet). We can never predict when the next release will be, but a lot of development is going on. I’d guestimate anywhere from 3-9 months.