Using OpenEMR in South Africa

davidmcc4 wrote on Tuesday, July 27, 2010:

Hi I am looking at OpenEMR with a view to replacing a DOS database (build in 1994) used by a Doctor who caters for low income patents. I have a system analysis and design background but don’t have a lot of programming experience.

In order to adapt the system to suit South African conditions a few changes would have to be made. The changes seem to be mostly cosmetic, namely Monetary symbols and references to deferent ID numbers used for record purposes.

Changing references to $ to R
Changing the references to:

FEDERAL EIN
FACILITY NPI
UPIN
TAXONOMY
FEDERAL DRUG ID
X12 PARTNERS

To something more appropriate for South African use

I have read through the user community forum to see if there have been other users with a similar problem. I have also used Google to see if I could find if there are other users in South Africa. I have drawn a blank and was hoping that someone could give me some pointers

Regards David

bradymiller wrote on Wednesday, July 28, 2010:

hey,

Are you using version 3.2 or 4.0. Both have different mechanisms for setting the currency symbol. If using 3.2, then can set the currency symbol and change the above labels in the Administration->Language gui. If using 3.2, then ensure you install the most recent 3.2 patch and consider following instructions to set the lang_custom table:
http://www.openmedsoftware.org/wiki/OpenEMR_Patches
http://www.openmedsoftware.org/wiki/Configure_Language_Editor_Improvements_For_3.2

-brady

davidmcc4 wrote on Saturday, July 31, 2010:

Thank you Brady

I am using 3.2
I will follow up on that.

Again Many thanks