cfapress wrote on Wednesday, February 13, 2008:
Since I’ve got my fingers in the middle of the Calendar code I’d like to add the ability to print calendars. Nicely. I see that PostCalendar has a little code about printing but it doesn’t mesh with any of the customized PostCalendar code.
Has anyone done work in this area?
I’d like to know before I dive into the deep end.
Thanks,
Jason
markleeds wrote on Thursday, February 14, 2008:
How about a printable ‘appointment card’ to give to patients? It could have a confirmation number which could just be the table id number.
We have patients that insist that ‘the woman’ gave them an appointment and must have forgotten to enter it in the computer.
I don’t know if this is a common problem for others, but I wouldn’t mind requiring a confirmation number in such situations.
cfapress wrote on Thursday, February 14, 2008:
I bit the bullet and worked in printed calendar functionality. I tried my best to keep in the coding style being used in the PostCalendar stuff. I’ll get the code to Rod very soon.
I like Mark’s comment about a ‘confirmation card’ for a patient. I don’t think it fits into the current coding area. Rather it would belong in a View/Edit/Delete Event page. It should be quite simple to add and I’ll likely be asked by my users to add something like that to the code. So this could be something forthcoming.
jason
fred0 wrote on Thursday, February 14, 2008:
Just to chime in here, one of my goals with OpenEMR is to move my client to as much of a paperless solution as possible. With that in mind and the idea that an appointment card could mean either printing on letter sized sheets (kind of a waste) or having a printer set up to deal with card sized forms (kind of a pain), it might be nice to expand this to include an email function. Just click to email the appointment card to the patient. Alternately, it could be an automatic thing. If email contact is allowed in the patient demographics HIPAA choices, then creation of a new appointment would automatically email the appointment card. I guess there would also need to be a function that would email a "change of appointment" notice/confirmation should an existing appointment be rescheduled for any reason.
andres_paglayan wrote on Thursday, February 14, 2008:
a very easy to set up, and green alternative, is sending text messages (sms)
they may cost you about $0.01 each,
check clickatell.com
they provide a library so you can do:
<?
sms 15555555 "you have an appointment with $prov at $date_time "
?>
it may also works very well with certain clientele that is bad at keeping an agenda,
but good at carrying their phones.