Brady, Left Start-up menu: POP-UP => LETTER (last option)
as mentioned before, you created this nice way of writing short notices, or long ones if so wished, and give the option for saving the TEMPLATE or SAVE as a Letter with useful information. If more than one Physician do use the same SAVE method, it could be a cluttered system in no time.
Suggestion: Or we use it as a POP-UP, just write LETTER-s that you do NOT want to save, but make a short letter with the help of a TEMPLATE.
OR
We must try to find a solution for a button like SAVE and SAVE AS… Since sometimes you might want to save the LETTER under Patient name, sometimes you want to save the LETTER under a Colleagues name and sometimes you might want to save it as Insurance letter or a General reminder. So these letters could be saved in a separate directory with sub Directories of any choice, but could also be save-d for a patient under the Documents with a patient identification.
AND … IF … THIS … was already addressed and solved, please accept my apologies, since I didn’t save my Pop-up-letter because it was filled with a lot of nonsense and did not want to keep it, but all buttons seemed the same as before what caused me to make these remarks.
Another solution might be that the Generated letter is opened in a regular FireFox window and than you can PRINT, SAVE AS, VIEW as any HTML file. If you wish to save that HTML file you can SAVE it wherever you want.
I didn’t create this function, I just internationalized it. Sounds like lots of good feature requests.
I’ll also add a few feature requests:
----Allow a template to be called within a letter. For example, a header template with the clinic name/address in it. Then can call this template at top of the letter. Hence, every letter won’t need to be changed if need to change address etc. The possibilities would be endless.
----This type of mechanism can also be utilized to create clinic notes. For example, template PMH, meds, SH, FH, vitals, labs, imaging from the database and create the initial note with these automatically inserted into it.
I had my hands in the letter generator some time ago. It wasn’t working at all and needed some some help. Surely it needs additional work and the recommendations here ought to be considered when more work begins with this part of the code.
One one thing … the locations and the file names that are used to do this must NOT be root level /tmp. That model fails for any multi-instance installation. The work dirs and storage locations need to be configurable in globals.php.
I have had working on this, statements and backup for the same reasons on my plate for a while and I just have not had the time, yet …