Problem section blank in CCR

Management and Administration
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richardepstein wrote on Wednesday, September 05, 2012:

Just installed 4.1.1
Test patient entered with an item or two in the Issues->Medical Problems section.
On the patient’s Continuity of Care Record, the “Problems” section appears, and has a line for each entry, but no information that I entered. Just fills in “Problem”,date, (ICD9-CM), Active. No actual data.

Ideas? Works fine in 4.1.0

richard.epstein@alum.mit.edu

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bradymiller wrote on Thursday, September 06, 2012:

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the bug report. Committed a fix for this to sourceforge(master branch):
http://github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/cc0113cc653fe314b6aef236d05dcccb85c20b90

Will include this fix in the next 4.1.1 patch.

-brady
OpenEMR

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richardepstein wrote on Thursday, September 06, 2012:

Thanks for the quick response.
I implemented the change, looks good.

It looked like the change was because in 4.1.0 ICD9 codes were in the Codes table. Now it looks like they are in ICD9 dedicated tables. Should the ICD9 codes be loaded in the codes table? In 4.1.0 there was a semiautomated way to do that. Now it looks like the previous menu options bring you to more extensive code loading routines, but don’t load the ICD9 codes into the “Codes” table.

So, any reason going forward to load ICD9 codes into the “codes” table? Any easy way to do it? (I was in the middle of exporting them from my old database and importing them into the new (4.1.1) database, when I found your reply).

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bradymiller wrote on Thursday, September 06, 2012:

Hi Richard,

In 4.1.1, there’s a lot of flexibility in using code sets, which you can decide at the Administration->Lists->Code Types. And check out the furthest right column titled External of the ICD9 Key row. Two settings can be used:
1. ‘No’ will simply work as 4.1.0 did drawing the ICD9 codes from the codes table.
‘2. ICD9 Diagnosis’ works in another manner. It draws the codes from the ICD9 tables which are populated in the Adminsitration->Other->External Data Loads GUI. And it stores any modified code settings (for example, if turn one off, set one as being used in 'Diagnosis Reporting or assign to a Category) via the Adminstration->Services GUI in the codes table. So, it’s actually ok to even leave your current codes in the codes table and use this method(especially if you have modified them or flagged them or assigned them to categories).

Here’s the ICD9 code loading instructions for 4.1.1:
http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Import_Standard_Tables#Import.2FUpgrade_and_activate_ICD9

-brady
OpenEMR