Phone appointment reminder integration

wooyi wrote on Friday, January 08, 2010:

Hi all

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.

Y

anonymous wrote on Monday, January 11, 2010:

I got the followings from Rod:

controllers/C_Prescription.class.php
interface/drugs/drugs.inc.php
interface/drugs/dispense_drug.php
interface/batchcom/batchEmail.php
modules/sms_email_reminder/cron_functions.php

The last two seems to be part of some sort of patient reminder system.

We are reviewing the codes and will work with you on this item.

wooyi wrote on Monday, January 11, 2010:

Thomas

What I’m proposing will be similar to the description below. There will be an additional Phone Notification cronjob to process phone reminders as well

http://www.openmedsoftware.org/wiki/Sms_and_Email_Notification_Howtos

sraj49 wrote on Tuesday, August 10, 2010:

Hi Wooyi,

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.

I appreciate your kind response and assistance.

Raj

tmccormi wrote on Tuesday, August 10, 2010:

Based on QA by Visolve there are 4 minor bugs remaining to be addressed in the patient reminders system.
Tony

sraj49 wrote on Tuesday, August 10, 2010:

Tony,

Where can I see the details of the files and modifications to be done to integrate the patient reminder system. Doe it include phone reminders also.

Thanks

Raj

bradymiller wrote on Wednesday, August 11, 2010:

hey,

The most recent version of this stuff posted in the code review tracker can be found on my github repos here (with most recent cvs version):
http://github.com/bradymiller/openemr/commits/cdrpt_7

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.

-brady