Weekly Conference Call

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tmccormi wrote on Saturday, October 19, 2013:

It was Pacific time. Whichever we are in now.
On Oct 19, 2013 9:04 AM, “Ronald Leemhuis” rpl121@users.sf.net wrote:

I want to get the time right for the conference call today. Is it really
11 AM Pacific STANDARD time, not daylight saving time?

Ronald Leemhuis

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bradymiller wrote on Friday, October 25, 2013:

Hi Everybody,

This is a reminder of the next conference call this Saturday at 11:00 am PST. More details on the call (ie. number to call etc.) can be found here:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Weekly_Conference_Call_Details

Agenda is wide open. Possible topics include a bunch of MU2 related items and non-MU2 related items.

thanks,
-brady
OpenEMR

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bradymiller wrote on Sunday, October 27, 2013:

Hi,

For the 10/26/13 conference call today (note these are not official notes; just going from memory):

Attendees: myself, Rod, David, Jack, Lou, Julie, Sam (Likins), Virginia, Carmen, and Nina

This was a rather unstructured discussion, which covered a wide array of topics.

There was a lot of discussion on the Zend framework proposal by ZH Healthcare (even in the absence of Shameem) and the scope of MU2 criteria that they will be fulfilling. Very cool.

There was then a discussion on usability and mention that there is a MU2 criteria that focuses on this.

There were then some questions by a student, Carmen, in the “The Columbia Health Information Technology Certification Class” regarding how OpenEMR is organized and how the development and management process works, which lead to several descriptions of the OpenEMR community and a recommendation by Rod to read the “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/index.html

(at this point I had to answer a page and missed 10-15 minutes of the call)

Then we discussed patient data importing mechanisms, of which there are several options in OpenEMR. David has one in Zend, and I pointed out the current CCR import mechanism that was recently contributed by ZH Healthcare. Virginia (Instructor of the Columbia Health HIT Certification class and expertise in HL7) then educated us with an overview of CCR, CCD and consolidated CDA formats and that MU2 requires consolidated CDA, which is used as a building block in several of the MU2 criteria.

Regarding Meaningful Use 2 progress, here is the updated barometer:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Certification_Stage_II_Meaningful_Use#Completion_Barometer

-brady
OpenEMR

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bradymiller wrote on Saturday, November 02, 2013:

Hi Everybody,

This is a reminder of the next conference call tomorrow (Saturday) at 11:00 am PST. More details on the call (ie. number to call etc.) can be found here:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Weekly_Conference_Call_Details

As usual, the agenda is wide open. I’ll likely only be able to make it for the first 20 minutes.

thanks,
-brady
OpenEMR

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bradymiller wrote on Friday, November 15, 2013:

Hi Everybody,

This is a reminder of the next conference call this Saturday at 11:00 am PST. More details on the call (ie. number to call etc.) can be found here:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Weekly_Conference_Call_Details

As usual, the agenda is wide open and the call is open to all. If want to get a topic discussed feel free to let us know in advance (or make it a surprise).

thanks,
-brady
OpenEMR

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bradymiller wrote on Monday, November 18, 2013:

Hi,

For the 11/16/13 conference call (note these are not official notes; just going from memory):

Attendees: myself, Rod, Art, David, Shameem, Jack, Julie, JR, Virginia, Gary, Nina

As previously, this was another rather unstructured discussion, which covered several topics.

Discussed the API that is currently being worked on and maintained by MedMasterPro. Gary is from NASA and is interested in creating an API and they plan to use the code from MedMasterPro’s API code as a starting point in their solution, which I agreed was very reasonable. Hopefully there will be time in future for a developer to continue the reviews of these API sets to get them into the OpenEMR official codebase.

Discussed that there appear to be many other smaller EMRs that are not getting MU2 certification (meaning they are likely closing shop). Reasons for this were thought to be related to technical hurdles of MU2 in addition to the competitive environment of EMRs.

There was an update on the progress in the Zend framework code for importing modules which is almost ready for an official code review. I pre-reviewed the code over the last week in order to hopefully get it ready for an official efficient review by the community. This code will serve as the launching point for several modules that ZH Healthcare plans to build to fulfill many of the more difficult to obtain MU2 items.

There was then a discussion regarding many of the forks out there which now exist. Art brought up an entertaining anecdote where he was asked to help out with another clinic’s EMR with some fancy name and website that he realized was OpenEMR renamed with some customizations. Turns out there are likely hundreds of these things out there.

Virginia announced that her Columbia HIT Certification Class is going to analyze the Patient List Creation MU2 item, which is very cool and look forward to seeing how it turns out.

I think that was all. If there was more that I forgot, please feel free to add it in the forum thread here.

Regarding Meaningful Use 2 progress, here is the updated barometer:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Certification_Stage_II_Meaningful_Use#Completion_Barometer

-brady
OpenEMR

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bradymiller wrote on Friday, December 06, 2013:

Hi Everybody,

This is a reminder of the next conference call this Saturday at 11:00 am PST. More details on the call (ie. number to call etc.) can be found here:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Weekly_Conference_Call_Details

As usual, the agenda is wide open and the call is open to all. If want to get a topic discussed feel free to let us know in advance (or make it a surprise).
(I’ll be flying to New Orleans overnight, so I may not make it; if not, then one thing to discuss is the analysis projects by the Columbia HIT Certification Class, which are very nice: http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Patient_list_creation_(MU2)#Proposal )

thanks,
-brady
OpenEMR

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jcahn2 wrote on Saturday, December 14, 2013:

For the 12/14/13 conference call (note these are not official notes as I failed to exercise minimum secretarial skills :>(

Attendees: Jack, Julie (EMRConnect), 5 folks from Columbia U: David, Virgina, Angie, and my apologies (please correct name) Nina, and a CU alum (also nameless).

Obviously the discussion centered on the CU project. A couple of specifics were: 1) process and authorization for Snomed data import and 2)Under Past Hx, there is a paucity of predefined options and even at best these represent text entries. Discreet diagnosis data (diagnoses with standard codes(icd-n or snomed) via drop-down menu or search function) and discreet family relationship data for family history (first degree vs lesser relationship) would likely be needed for MU2 either as specified functionality or as a “usability” feature. In any event, it would be useful for quality patient care. e.g one could then set a “reminder rule” for anyone with a first degree relative with colon cancer to begin colonoscopy screening at age 40.

Question about the table currently used for family history and if/how it would be modified to accommodate the above.

There were other topics, other participants please feel free to comment.

Jack Cahn MD
OEMR Board

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mdsupport wrote on Sunday, December 15, 2013:

MU2 and current history-data table enhancements/limitations is a discussion that probably is better handled in its own thread.

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bradymiller wrote on Monday, December 16, 2013:

Hi,

Jack, thanks for the notes on the meeting. They are super useful.

Regarding the Family History item, here’s the MU2 page. I placed some feedback on the CU proposal along with a preliminary idea of what is likely needed to get OpenEMR to fulfill this thing.
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Family_health_history_(MU2)

Regarding SNOMED, very minimal documentation of that here:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Code_Types#SNOMED
Which basically redirects to the instructions within OpenEMR that are:

Steps to install the Snomed database:

1. The first step is to open an account with the Unified Medical Language System web site here
2. Then the raw data feed release can be obtained from this location
3. Place the downloaded Snomed database zip file into the following directory: contrib/snomed
4. Return to this page and you will be able to complete the Snomed installation process by clicking on the SNOMED section header

NOTE: Only the Biannual International Snomed Release is currently supported.

The following International Snomed Release languages are supported: English, Spanish (Additionally, the corresponding US Snomed Extension Package can be imported separately after installing the International (English version) Snomed Release)

WARNING: If you are using the 2012-10-31 Spanish version, then note you need to unzip it once before placing it in the contrib/snomed (this is because the released file was double-zipped).

Looking forward to the next meeting this Saturday. It’s almost 2014 and OpenEMR is still far away from MU2 certification…

-brady
OpenEMR

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tmccormi wrote on Monday, December 16, 2013:

Jack… thoughts on that possible letter for fund raising to the OEMR Corp
members that have not renewed this year?

Tony McCormick

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Brady Miller bradymiller@users.sf.netwrote:

Hi,

Jack, thanks for the notes on the meeting. They are super useful.

Regarding the Family History item, here’s the MU2 page. I placed some
feedback on the CU proposal along with a preliminary idea of what is likely
needed to get OpenEMR to fulfill this thing.
Family health history (MU2) - OpenEMR Project Wiki

Regarding SNOMED, very minimal documentation of that here:
Code Types - OpenEMR Project Wiki
Which basically redirects to the instructions within OpenEMR that are:

Steps to install the Snomed database:

1. The first step is to open an account with the Unified Medical Language
   System web site here
2. Then the raw data feed release can be obtained from this location
3. Place the downloaded Snomed database zip file into the following
   directory: contrib/snomed
4. Return to this page and you will be able to complete the Snomed
   installation process by clicking on the SNOMED section header

NOTE: Only the Biannual International Snomed Release is currently
supported.

The following International Snomed Release languages are supported:
English, Spanish (Additionally, the corresponding US Snomed Extension
Package can be imported separately after installing the International
(English version) Snomed Release)

WARNING: If you are using the 2012-10-31 Spanish version, then note you
need to unzip it once before placing it in the contrib/snomed (this is
because the released file was double-zipped).

Looking forward to the next meeting this Saturday. It’s almost 2014 and
OpenEMR is still far away from MU2 certification…

-brady
OpenEMR http://www.open-emr.org/

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bradymiller wrote on Monday, December 16, 2013:

Tony,
So we can optimize how aggressive to be on the donation compaign on open-emr.org site, can we somehow get a weekly or so update on donations. Note Dr. Lee sketched another picture on open-emr.org to try to draw in more donate click. We can get more aggressive in terms of placement and also using the social site channels, if needed.
thanks,
-brady
OpenEMR

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fsgl wrote on Monday, December 16, 2013:

Extending the fundraiser to social media is a splendid idea. The solicitation can be whittled down to a tweet very easily.

Who knows; if Peppy, the blue puppy, becames popular, we could do tee shirts; like PBS’ totebag during Pledge Week. Just kidding.

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jcahn2 wrote on Monday, December 16, 2013:

Has one already been written, or did I imagine that?

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:29 AM, Tony McCormick tmccormi@users.sf.netwrote:

Jack… thoughts on that possible letter for fund raising to the OEMR Corp
members that have not renewed this year?

Tony McCormick

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Brady Miller bradymiller@users.sf.net
wrote:

Hi,

Jack, thanks for the notes on the meeting. They are super useful.

Regarding the Family History item, here’s the MU2 page. I placed some
feedback on the CU proposal along with a preliminary idea of what is likely
needed to get OpenEMR to fulfill this thing.
Family health history (MU2) - OpenEMR Project Wiki

Regarding SNOMED, very minimal documentation of that here:
Code Types - OpenEMR Project Wiki
Which basically redirects to the instructions within OpenEMR that are:

Steps to install the Snomed database:

1. The first step is to open an account with the Unified Medical Language
   System web site here
2. Then the raw data feed release can be obtained from this location
3. Place the downloaded Snomed database zip file into the following
   directory: contrib/snomed
4. Return to this page and you will be able to complete the Snomed
   installation process by clicking on the SNOMED section header

NOTE: Only the Biannual International Snomed Release is currently
supported.

The following International Snomed Release languages are supported:
English, Spanish (Additionally, the corresponding US Snomed Extension
Package can be imported separately after installing the International
(English version) Snomed Release)

WARNING: If you are using the 2012-10-31 Spanish version, then note you
need to unzip it once before placing it in the contrib/snomed (this is
because the released file was double-zipped).

Looking forward to the next meeting this Saturday. It’s almost 2014 and
OpenEMR is still far away from MU2 certification…

-brady
OpenEMR http://www.open-emr.org/

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tmccormi wrote on Tuesday, December 17, 2013:

Nearly none of the current OEMR corporate members participate in any of the forum or shared community, so only direct mail and phone calls will work with them.

In the last 3 weeks we have received $2000 from one Corp member as announce and $30.00 in individual donations (3 x $10) …

Not awe inspiring…

-Tony

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tmccormi wrote on Tuesday, December 17, 2013:

Nearly none of the current OEMR corporate members participate in any of the
forum or shared community, so only direct mail and phone calls will work
with them.

In the last 3 weeks we have received $2000 from one Corp member as
announced, and $30.00 in individual donations (3 x $10) …

Not awe inspiring…

The OEMR has a balance of $8,791.07.
We need a minimum of $25,000 to certify assuming ALL volunteer coding,
which is unlikely.

I think we need $100,000 realistically to better that just barely passing
the bar.

Tony McCormick, CTO
Medical Information Integration, LLC

MI-Squared - Medical Information Integration - mi-squared

Direct: 713-574-6709, cell 503-330-2239
Office: 866-735-0897
@MI2_OpenEMR

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:33 AM, fsgl fsgl@users.sf.net wrote:

Extending the fundraiser to social media is a splendid idea. The
solicitation can be whittled down to a tweet very easily.

Who knows; if Peppy, the blue puppy, becames popular, we could do tee
shirts; like PBS’ totebag during Pledge Week. Just kidding.

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bradymiller wrote on Friday, January 10, 2014:

Hi Everybody,

This is a reminder of the next conference call this Saturday at 11:00 am PST. More details on the call (ie. number to call etc.) can be found here:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Weekly_Conference_Call_Details

Agenda is wide open. It’s 2014 and still a large amount of things to do for MU2.

thanks,
-brady
OpenEMR

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bradymiller wrote on Saturday, January 11, 2014:

Hi,

For the 1/11/14 conference call today (note these are not official notes; just going from memory):

Attendees: myself, Rod, Jack, Lou, John, Nancy

Brief overview on Meaningful Use 2 progress basically stating that there is still a huge amount of work to do; here is the updated barometer:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Certification_Stage_II_Meaningful_Use#Completion_Barometer

Discussed the E-prescribe options(newcrop,allscripts,drfirst). There was a question of whether the drfirst option is working with OpenEMR.

Discussion with John and Nancy from Quantum Logic Corporation whom are based in New York on how code submissions work in the OpenEMR project. Exciting since the group has several developers and may be willing to contribute some funds towards MU2. Sounds like the first project will be improving the billing engine and placing it on par with the other billing software out there (ie. medisoft etc.).

Lou discussed his work which is very cool. His group essentially goes to physician practices which use non-OpenEMR EMRs that don’t support CQM calcolations and his group actually brings in OpenEMR temporarily to only calculate the clinical quality measures (since the EMRs that those physicians have do not support the CQMs). Lou, correct me if I am wrong here on the description.

There was also some discussion on frameworks and ongoing Zend contributions.

-brady
OpenEMR

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tmccormi wrote on Monday, January 13, 2014:

Drfirst has been integrated into openemr in an DRCLOUD EMR fork, by
Ensoftek. it would need significant work to back port it to a version of
OpenEmR but it could be done. OEMR holds the contract with DrFirst.
Tony

Hi,

For the 1/11/14 conference call today (note these are not official notes;
just going from memory):

Attendees: myself, Rod, Jack, Lou, John, Nancy

Brief overview on Meaningful Use 2 progress basically stating that there is
still a huge amount of work to do; here is the updated barometer:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Certification_Stage_II_Meaningful_Use#Completion_Barometer

Discussed the E-prescribe options(newcrop,allscripts,drfirst). There was a
question of whether the drfirst option is working with OpenEMR.

Discussion with John and Nancy from Quantum Logic Corporation whom are
based in New York on how code submissions work in the OpenEMR project.
Exciting since the group has several developers and may be willing to
contribute some funds towards MU2. Sounds like the first project will be
improving the billing engine and placing it on par with the other billing
software out there (ie. medisoft etc.).

Lou discussed his work which is very cool. His group essentially goes to
physician practices which use non-OpenEMR EMRs that don’t support CQM
calcolations and his group actually brings in OpenEMR temporarily to only
calculate the clinical quality measures (since the EMRs that those
physicians have do not support the CQMs). Lou, correct me if I am wrong
here on the description.

There was also some discussion on frameworks and ongoing Zend contributions.

-brady
OpenEMR http://www.open-emr.org/

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bradymiller wrote on Friday, January 24, 2014:

Hi Everybody,

This is a reminder of the next conference call this Saturday at 11:00 am PST. More details on the call (ie. number to call etc.) can be found here:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Weekly_Conference_Call_Details

Agenda is wide open. It’s one month into 2014 and still a large amount of things to do for MU2.

thanks,
-brady
OpenEMR