drpwayne wrote on Thursday, January 13, 2011:
I’ve been studying some of the forms provided with OpenEMR and I will be the first to confess that there are many features I haven’t explored and I don’t understand the forms fully, but I have a couple of observations and I would like feedback from developers as to whether these are valid.
1) I created a standard “form_physical_exam” for myself on 1/9 and today - 3 days later - I was able to edit the physical exam and change one of the normal findings to an abnormal one. I don’t think this should be allowed. Am I missing something? Isn’t there some requirement for a digital signature so that once a form is saved, it is not editable?
2) In a related vein, the form seems to save only comments and either WNL or ABNL for each portion of the exam. The translation of “normal” is done by the lines.php script. So the actual findings of the exam could be changed by changing the lines.php script. (Indeed, given the number of misspellings in lines.php, I would hope most users have changed the script). I can understand that in the days when hard drive space was limited, that made sense, but with terabyte drives selling for $79, I think the actual findings should be saved with the form, and not subject to alteration with a change in a script. I don’t know whether all the forms work the same way, or is this just a limitation of the form_physical_exam that is supplied as an example.
- Peter