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george1121 wrote on Saturday, June 23, 2012:

Perhaps this should be pinned --and ther shuld be a separate area for people who are going to start. IMHO, it shoud be sort of like this:
Steps:
1. Download oemr. Install. Known bugs/problems areas: ( 1, 2, 3…links) ( Faq re: instillation: link)
2. Once installed, most doctors tinker with : ( 1, Sub portion-link, Obj-link, asses-link….)
3. Some examples / snapshots/ jing sort youtube videos of modified OEMR: ( link 1,2, 3…)
4. Some expected costs of modifications: ( link 1 cost $ 55…link 2 $ 5800, link 3  $ 778…and so on).

My problem-after havng “run” the OEMR-i find itlacks a lot of stuff. So, if I were to Elance it–what / how do I do this?
thanks,
George.

george1121 wrote on Saturday, June 23, 2012:

Perhaps this should be pinned --and ther should be a separate area for people who are going to start.
IMHO, it could be sort of like this:
Steps:
1. Download oemr. Install. Known bugs/problems areas: ( 1, 2, 3…links) ( Faq re: instillation: link)
2. Once installed, most doctors tinker with : ( 1, Sub portion-link, Obj-link, asses-link….)
3. Some examples / snapshots/ jing sort youtube videos of modified OEMR: ( link 1,2, 3…)
4. Some expected costs of modifications: ( link 1 cost $ 55…link 2 $ 5800, link 3  $ 778…and so on).

My problem-after having “run” the OEMR-I find that it lacks a lot of “stuff”.
So, if I were to Elance it and get the program “filled out”–what / how do I do this?
thanks,
George.

bradymiller wrote on Saturday, June 23, 2012:

Hi George,

The software is called “OpenEMR” :slight_smile:

Check out the OpenEMR Download page here:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Downloads
(note there are links to the installation instructions for each package)

And here is the OpenEMR User Manual here:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_4.1_Users_Guide
(note it does contain several video tutorials)

I do like your idea of linking the installation instructions to the user manual, so I just added a User Manual link to the end of the installation instruction sets (in a Using OpenEMR section).

We have been thinking about ways to educate users on how to go about paying for modifications and what to expect. Over the next several weeks, plan to add a page to the website/wiki entitle “Project Marketplace” to do this, but still working out the details.

-brady
OpenEMR

bradymiller wrote on Saturday, June 23, 2012:

Hi,

Also just realized your mention of Elance (so assuming you are looking for professionals). To this end, there is some material here on how to find support in OpenEMR:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Support_Guide

We maintain a list of Professional Support providers here:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Professional_Support

And maintain a list of Certified OpenEMR Contributors (these are pros/vendors that have demonstrated competence in OpenEMR development):
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Certified_OpenEMR_Contributor

hope this helps (and am always happy to get feedback on how to make this better),
-brady
OpenEMR

george1121 wrote on Sunday, June 24, 2012:

Brady-thanks for the quick reply.
I’d like to help-really in a way, I guess this is “my contribution” towards helping myself as well !

What I’d like to see is
(1) Clinics and doctors that actually use OpenEMR.
(2) Who helped in improving it ? How many patients can the doctors see comfortably while using the EMR? (“speed” ?)
(3) What was the final cost? Transfer of data cost? Training costs? Is training available on video/ YouTube? (“Cost” Training")
(4) What are the support costs?
(5) Is it an Internal Medicine module or Ob-Gyn or Pediatric? If Pediatrics, for example, Does it have these functionalities: Growth chart? Vaccination module? Scanning? Billing? Scheduling? link to VOIP telephony?
(6) How does it compare to eCW? SOAPWARE? Amazing Charts? Head to head comparison. Why is it better than PracticeFusion? If it is better, why is there so much of a lag in the adoption of OpenEMR? (“Doctors opinion”)
(7) Set up a clinical discussion group-dealing with clinical aspect of EMR, where templates can be exchanged, and notes compared. (“Clinical aspect”)
(8) How can one change the look and feel of the EMR-I saw the videos by ZH Healthcare-but they are a Vendor done videos. Most of them are very well done, and ZH obviously knows what it is doing–but the demos are obviously not done by an  “in the trenches doctor”.
Thus, the HOPI into the “Subj” part and the note taking into “Objective” part look positively “DOS-ish”……The EMR needs pick lists, macros, drop down menus, abbreviations etc…and so on.
Just my 2 cents, regards, George.

george1121 wrote on Sunday, June 24, 2012:

An addendum:
I looked up the prices of a few items:

Turning word/pdf forms into clickable forms ( i guess it would be the same for “Templates” as well, especially if a doc has “one special” template ( I do this) and use this particular template for everything under the sun, and write out stuff that is not “questioned” in the template.

This has a cost of $8-$12/hr, with programmers offering to do 30 page templates in 10-15 hours, ie , 30 pages= about $180.
This is a simple, no programming involved deal, and only changing word/pdf read file to a clickable file. Real programming is much more expensive. However this should give a pretty decent “push” in the right direction I think.