htuckjr wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:
Hi Folks- this is Harley Tuck; I just put in for a wiki account and my bio has a little more information. I’m almost done with my BS in Health Informatics/ Tech Writing minor at OIT/ Wilsonville and I’d like to help out with OpenEMR’s documentation. Once I emerge from the wiki sandbox is there any particular thing I should start with?
Regards- HT
fsgl wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:
Welcome aboard, Harley.
Our goal is the wide acceptance of OpenEMR by the medical community. Most physicians are not computer scientists, therefore how-to’s with plenty of screenshots would contribute to that end. Topics for the tutorials can be gleaned from a sense of recurring questions and problems in these forums. Video tutorials with sharp graphics would be great as well.
Some of the Wiki articles are in serious need of editing in regards to more logical order arrangements, elimination of duplication and updating of more current information.
Unlike at Wikipedia, your original Wiki articles will not be edited to death despite the warning on the bottom.
Brady is a good source of guidance and a timely email responder.
blankev wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:
I completely agree. Please follow the hints of SFGL, would be great to see improvements in index and update of version specific documentation. Yesterday I tried to find some explanation on Fee-sheet related implementations and to my amazement I saw info great for version 3.0.1 one of the versions I started with, great for those times, nut obsolete for present users. It helped a bit, but today I see a message from Brady, that Fee sheets etc are completely overhauled and Version 1.2 is much easier to understand and handle difficult tasks like integration of codes.
So the best thin to do is think like a medical professional who wants to use OpenEMR with all extras and think like a developer who developed something but forgot that completely dummies like me want to explore and use the feature, but are lost after the first row of implementation explanation.
htuckjr wrote on Monday, July 15, 2013:
thanks for the tips. I’m monitoring the dev forum so will keep track of that for updates.