OpenEMR as an e-clinic

Management and Administration
#1

Hello Everyone,
Having used OpenEMR for about 4 years now I believe it is the best thing around. Recently I had a meeting with some young medical practitioners ( about 10 of them) and we discussed ways to bring cheaper and more affordable health solution to people in my country and as such we came to a solution which is an e-clinic where a patient will be registered in the platform and then an appointment will be booked and a doctor will visit the patient at the patients own residence and after consultation with the patient the doctor may make a request for a lab test ( Already the system would have captured some accredited labs and their location, where the said lab will have their login and be able to input the result) the lab location will be determined by the location of the patient. Also after the result has been made available the doctor will remotely login and view the result and then with the the result will he prescribe a medication for the patient (Here too the system would have captured the accredited pharmacies and their locations, of which the pharmacy will have their own login so as to be aware of any prescription being made to them) so the patient would go and pick up his or her prescription at the nearest accredited pharmacy close to him or her. For the billing, the system will bill the patient for the lab and the pharmacy too so at the end of the month a billing report will be generated according to the lab or pharmacy that rendered a service.

So far so well OpenEMR has a patient portal and also a messaging module as well as so many other function an i believe it is possible.

Can OpenEMR be customized to provide this type of solution we want to provide?

#2

There is no need for customization. Everything you have said is in the program at current release.

#3

So how will i add the pharmacies, and the labs?

#4

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=W0mjP2j7EI0

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=UEk4QZ1Pl3k

http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Procedures_Module_Configuration_for_Manual_Result_Entry

http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Setting_Up_Your_Clinic

http://www.openmedpractice.com/ns/training.php

This should get you on your way.
Customizations require programming skills. If you are a program, you are welcome to add to the code you download. If you need a developer go to http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Professional_Support
and select a provider that best fits your needs.

#5

Thanks. I’ll keep you updated

#6

Please having activated the patient portal how do i create a login for a patient?

#7

Hello Elijah_Wisdom,
We have assume that you have been activated the patient portal prior,please follow the steps given below to create login for patient portal
1.To allow patient to use portals,enable the options given below
Demographics->Choices->‘Allow Patient Portal’->‘YES’
2.Patient portal login credentials for patients can be created/reset in the patient summary screen at the ‘Create/Reset Onsite Portal Credentials’.
3.Once you enter the patient portal credentials,click the ‘SAVE’ in the portal login credentials screen, it will email the credentials to the patient and the credentials can also be printed out.
*Note: In order to send email to work, patient needs to follow this

  1. In demographics->choices->Allow email->Yes
  2. Email address have to be entered in demographics
  3. An email address needs to be set in Administration->Globals- >Notifications->‘Patient Reminder Sender Email’ )
    4.When a patient logs into the portal for the first time (or after credentials are reset), the patient will be forced to set another password.
    5.Once the patient login into the portal,we can able to view the features like Report,Documents,Lab Test Results,Problem list ,Medication list,Medication Allergy List,Amendments,Appointments.

Hope you got some idea in creating login for patient portals,please let us know if you have any clarification
Thanks
Visolve

#8

Thanks alot.

#9

Please is it possible that the patient is able to see his or her bill and make an online payment through the patient portal? in this my use case, because that is how payment will be done.

#10

Hello Elijah_Wisdom,

At present in openemr, patient portal doesn’t include billing and online payment option but it can be done through code customization in patient portal

Thanks
Visolve

#11

Please, how can I get that to be done? am not much of a programmer?

#12

Hi,

Pretty sure @sjpadgett added this feature in the Version 2 patient portal, which will be in next version of OpenEMR (5.0.1; guessing this won’t be released for 2-3 months though). Can test it out here:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Development_Demo

-brady

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#13

Thanks Brady.
But i cannot get to login even after using admin and pass and the username and passwords respectively.

#14

Currently authorizing online credit card payments is turn off however an invoice can be sent to the patient portal from billing->posting where patient will get a secure message informing they have an invoice available in patient documents where the patient may view and/or fill out payment credit card information and send to Portal Dashboard under Misc menu in OpenEMR proper. There admin can review payment and authorize through clinics normal credit card auth setup. Once reviewed, they may download or send invoice to chart.

Online credit card authorization is ready to the point of adding clearing/auth payment accounts to module and I chose to leave off because it is so specific on a clinic by clinic basis. I may have up and running before release.

Currently patient may view his current account ledger(billing history and current balance) in portal under Accountings menu item.

Once I update my test server(sometime today) I can give you access where you have some test billing data and portal access setup.
-Jerry
Guess I should do a mention @Elijah_Wisdom

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#15

Thanks so much Jerry, i await the access login when you do the update.

Elijah Wisdom

#16

@Elijah_Wisdom Had to update my test server to new php version so not sure what your experience will be but you may log on at: https://www.opensourcedemr.us and use username:admin and pass:nopass (the word nopass) and portal is at
https://www.opensourcedemr.us/portal with username:Jason10 and pass:nopass

I went ahead and sent an invoice to patient Jason Binder with you can see in Patient Documents( Pending document button top of screen) and a secure message in Secure Messaging once logged in to portal.

Be sure to mention me in any replies because it is only way I get notified on responses from forum.

-Jerry

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#17

@sjpadgett I checked the patient portal out it is amazing. I am still going through it though. I will keep you updated on any observations.

-Elijah Wisdom

#18

@sjpadgett Hi Jerry, I did take a look of the patient portal. I revised the patient demographic, I made changes. I went to portal dashboard, and approved. The new data shows at the patient portal. Very Impressive.
I try to create a visit for the patient in openemr but the patient/client Tab do not let me to get the Create Visit second level menu. Im using firefox. Have you hear about this issue before?
Roberto

#19

@robertovasquez Hi, I just went up and created a visit from Patient/Client no issue. Try clearing your browser cache.

#20

Clear the cache solve the issue with the tab. Thanks. I’ll keep testing @sjpadgett