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.
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.
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-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.
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.