Source code structure

OpenEMR Development
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kietvta wrote on Tuesday, August 09, 2016:

Dear All

Could you please show me where I can find source code structure documentation of OpenEMR such as: how is its organized, the description of folders or files in source code, what will we need to change when customize the source?

Thanks in advance

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sunsetsystems wrote on Tuesday, August 09, 2016:

In case you have not already seen it:

http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Wiki_Home_Page#Developer_Manuals

If you tell us what sort of customization you want to do, someone can probably point you in the right direction.

Rod
http://www.sunsetystems.com

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kietvta wrote on Wednesday, August 10, 2016:

Hi Rod
Thank you for your support. We will customize OPENEMR for non-profit project. Could you please show me the right direction to customize the following functions:

  • Insurance information (including Provider, Fee, Billing and Report) to get along well with my local insurance policy.
  • Patient Transaction (referal, counter referal and transaction report)
  • Patient’s family member disease and history (need to identify which patient has relation to another patients in the same family)

Thank you.

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sunsetsystems wrote on Wednesday, August 10, 2016:

Insurance covers a lot of territory. For claims-related logic start with:
o library/Claim.class.php
o library/gen_hcfa_1500.inc.php
o library/gen_x12_837.inc.php
o library/sl_eob.inc.php

For view/edit of patient insurance info see:
o interface/patient_file/summary/demographics.php
o library/patient.inc

Managment of insurance companies is based on legacy code using Smarty. Look in controllers, library/classes and templates for file names relating to insurance. We are not encouraging new Smarty development.

For transactions start with interface/patient_file/transaction/. But be aware that I will soon be floating a feature to change referrals from transactions to encounter forms, so you might want to hold off on that a bit.

There has been talk about supporting relationships between patients (specifically guarantors) but I don’t think much has happened yet. See this discussion:

https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202506/thread/a3097c3c/

Rod
http://www.sunsetystems.com

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kietvta wrote on Friday, August 12, 2016:

Thank you so much Mr Rod!