louhop wrote on Wednesday, September 10, 2014:
I’ve been looking to see if there is a way I can upload a PDF Diabetes flowsheet doc? I’ve look through the users guide but cannot find anything related!..
visolveemr wrote on Thursday, September 11, 2014:
Hello Louis Hopcraft,
For patient specific documents :
Select the Patient -> Document section the user can upload the documents.
If this is not you are looking, could you please provide some more information of what exactly you are looking for…
Thanks
OpenEMR Customization/Support Team,
ViSolve Inc
services@visolve.com
Demo’s @ ViSolve Demo Library
blankev wrote on Thursday, September 11, 2014:
There is a new menu item: Document Templates.
Available in next OpenEMR version.
See any Development Demo Version at OpenEMR.org you can find it as the last item in the left main menu choices. You have to converse the PDF file into OpenOffice Writer document to make this available for all clients in need of your PDF file.
fsgl wrote on Thursday, September 11, 2014:
No easy way to upload .pdf files.
One option is to scan the document as .jpeg, then upload.
Second is to use ImageMagick for the conversion as described here.
To get a sense of what’s involved in code customization, see this thread.
louhop wrote on Thursday, September 11, 2014:
Hi ViSolve
No, I’m looking for a location I can upload PDF’s that the nurse’s can print off afterwards, when they need it. I’ve read below that it’ll be in the next release of the software! Or at least I hope it is… It is just a Diabetes Flowsheet.pdf
Thank you to everyone who replied!
Louis
sunsetsystems wrote on Thursday, September 11, 2014:
You could just put them in a directory that’s accessible to be web server, and give them meaningful names.
The next release will have a feature to look them up by diagnosis, medication or lab order/result code. What you get can come from MedlinePlus or it could be your own PDFs. That was intended for patient education but might be helpful for nurses also.
blankev wrote on Sunday, September 14, 2014:
You might do the following:
make a directry on your local machine: OEMR-Forms
Make appropriate changes in the file: /interface/reports/patient_edu_web_lookup.php
add something to the top line like:
‘FlowSheets’ => ‘http://localhost/OEMR-Forms/’,
Might have to make more changes in the file: patient_edu_web_lookup.php
and my line might need some Developers advise, but what you want to do is show a local directory and the files.
fr4nkie wrote on Tuesday, September 16, 2014:
Would also be nice if there was a way to store global pdf files under the Miscellaneous menu. Just to have a place to upload custom intake forms, patient questionnaires, W-9s or other commonly accessed forms that could be hosted on the server as opposed to a local file folder.
Does this functionality already exist?
blankev wrote on Tuesday, September 16, 2014:
There is not something i place to make forms in PDF’s under miscellaneous. (This could also be as an option in CAMOS, needs to be installed seperately, under Adminstration)
LBF is also a seperate option to make Forms.
The newest forms can be made with OpenOFfice see DEMOS V 3.1 not official for daily practice, left menu last option.
bradymiller wrote on Tuesday, September 16, 2014:
Hi,
You could store/view them in Miscellaneous->New Documents. This is mostly meant for patient documents (and can map documents here to patient’s also), but don’t see why you couldn’t store global documents there (maybe even create a document category for them to make it more clear).
-brady
OpenEMR
bradymiller wrote on Wednesday, September 17, 2014:
For developers,
A possible project here would be to create a “official” category for these type of documents (name set in globals, something like “Office Documents”) that shows in Miscellaneous->New Documents, but not when using document viewer within patient summary screen->Documents gui.
-brady
OpenEMR
fsgl wrote on Wednesday, September 17, 2014:
In a typical practice a document search starts with a specific patient or group of patients, wherein the names are known & the user is already in the Patient Summary.
Storing documents in a global folder would entail an additional step with the patient name as a filter in the search. Unless distinctive names are given to the Categories, it would be inconvenient to search for a flow chart of HbA1C amidst a stack of other Medical Records of other patients.
There are occasions when it’s important to have the uploaded document as an integral part of the encounter. At present the only way to accomplish this, is via a .jpeg file.
hamdpa wrote on Wednesday, September 17, 2014:
Hi Louis,
Maybe I don’t understand your question well, but we are able to save pdf documents and open them as long as you set firefox/open menu/options then set adobe acrobat forms to open with use adobe acrobat in firefox. This will allow youto open in adobe reader which then can be used to print document. We are using ubuntu appliance OpenEMR 4.1.2 (7).
Hope this helps.
fsgl wrote on Friday, September 19, 2014:
Thanks, Henry, for the correction.
Pdf files can be uploaded to Documents, but the problem remains that a NationNote cannot use that format. At the present time, only a .jpeg file can be incorporated into a clinical note.
If a workaround can be devised, it will be posted here & in the Wiki.
fsgl wrote on Friday, September 19, 2014:
Text can be copied into a NationNote, but not graphics.
If it’s inconvenient to scan the document into the .jpeg format, there are converters.
For Windows:
- Free PDF to JPG. It has a batch mode.
- PDFill Free PDF Tools. Crop feature very handy in aligning CMS 1500 forms.
For Linux:
Gimp.