esears1 wrote on Friday, September 30, 2005:
Hi. I am in the process of installing OpenEMR for a General physician’s office. Currently they are running Alteer (anyone heard of them? ) and it uses a brooktrout fax card to take incoming and outgoing faxes into the system. Does anyone know if OpenEMR handles faxing?
andres_paglayan wrote on Friday, September 30, 2005:
Note very sure about the scope of your question.
OpenEMR can send out prescription faxes straight out from the server, provided that you have some sort of fax server.
edit config.php and at where the sendfax array key is declared ~ line 35:
// only works with hylafax sendfax client, and sendfax must be in PATH
// assign ‘sendfax’ to turn fax sending on
$GLOBALS[‘oer_config’][‘prescriptions’][‘sendfax’] = ‘’;
Assign the right send fax command for your system, it says it only works with hylafax, but it will work with any other fax soft too.
For incoming faxes you can enter them in the ‘documents’ tree as received
esears1 wrote on Friday, September 30, 2005:
ok we are currently using the fax system for the following:
work excuses, school excuses, anything that needs a physical signature rather than electronic, pharmacy callbacks and anything that has to be faxed out of the office.
I understand that the brooktrout card only works with the enterprise edition of hylafax which costs. Do you know what type of fax card will work with the hylafax, I did not notice a list of compatible cards on the site, i’ll try to look again.
Here’s what i’m thinking, if I can purchase 2 or 3 inexpensive fax cards and have it setup with hylafax (open source) that would probably be equal to one brooktrout card. They have a regular fax machine, but the employees are so use to using the fax feature in the computer that they do not use the regular fax machine.
Each of the receptionists/nurses have a scanner at their workstation. Just trying to find out what the best cost effective way of faxing.