I’m integrating a simple phone reminder service for automatic appointment reminders in OpenEMR. I noticed that there is already a table for sms/email reminders (automatic_notification). I was wondering how this table is populated? Is it a cron job that does this? Can someone give me some info?
What I would like to propose is to do something simple - a cron script that would pull out appointments from the openemr daily and make a web service call to the phone reminder service. It would not involve creating a new table in openemr or adding code. Well, perhaps for setting some of the user defined preferences for the reminders, like in the case of the sms/email reminders. I welcome feedback or if someone has already done this already. I’m integrating with my company’s voip service (Maviq) but anyone else can simple replace the outbound webservice call with their own call/script.
Any progress on the phone call reminder system. Is it operational. Would be poosible for you to share how you integrated the phone call reminder system in to openEMR.
Has this code been modified since then. My suggestion would be to excise the patient reminder component (should be straightforward) and get it into 4.0 . The clinical decision stuff still has a long ways to go.