Hi everyone!
Could you please tell me if there’s a possibility to send messages from physicians (OpenEMR v5.02) to patients (native Patient Portal) and backward with attached files? Is it possible to do that without installing any external applications? Can I attach .xlsx files (Microsoft Excel) somehow?
Another problem is that now I can mail from the patient to the physician with Secure Mail, but I can’t mail from the physician to the patient.
Would you be so kind to help with these problems?
Thank you in advance!
Hi Vitaly,
There is a messenger in the patient portal. I describe the table in which the messages live here:
It doesn’t appear that the table is able to store a reference to attachments in the patient directory.
However I believe patient documents are stored in the directory:
openemr/sites/default/documents/x/filename.pdf
or
\openemr\sites\default\documents\onsite_portal_documents
where x is the patient’s pid, e.g 6.
So in theory if you add a column or two to the table that give you the location of a file and it’s file name you could use that to pull up the attachment from its location.
@sjpadgett would know much more about the portal messenger than me.
Thank you for your help, Rachel! And how can I ask @sjpadgett about it?
Thank you, Stephen! I’ll try to use dashboard then