Electronic Medical Records by OpenEMR
Factors affecting the cost of the EMR Factors based on number of users, data volume, implemented features There are many variables to consider to estimate the installation cost of an EMR system. These are the standard questions about the final users, which we usually ask in order to quote an installation and a maintenance service. …
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The OpenEMR was originally for outpatients, but many claimed a new feature that allows the monitoring of hospitalizations. We are developing an Inpatient Module, including location, type of bed, floor, room, bed number, additional room , such as TV and oxygen, etc. The reports include: Free beds – Inpatient days – Standard Inpatient Number – …
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We have installed OpenEMR in a medium size clinic, in the province of Chubut, Argentina, in September 2016. So far, 7 months later, there are 100 registered users and almost 10,000 patients. There were no problems so far. The administration asked us for some reports, beyond those programmed in the OpenEMER system. For example, a …
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I see on Facebook Alejandro Abraham’s initiative for the country to adopt the Digital Clinical History, and I have already adhered. Law 26.529 that regulates the rights of the patient, in terms of the autonomy of the will, the information and the clinical documentation, specifies certain guidelines that a clinical history must meet. Among these …
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This new release of OpenEMR has several interesting new features. Check them out in our demo site at medical-records.net 2014 ONC Certified as a Modular EHR Compatible with PHP7 Compatible with most recent versions of MySQL and MariaDB Added a modern user interface Added full support for right to left languages Added an About link/page …
In order to record X rays a Pacs – Dicom server is usually needed. A demo for a DICOM reader is located at: http://medical-records.net/dicom3/ This is a tomography (X Ray in multiple layers), and can be enlarged, reduced, brightened, darkened, and moved around. This is quite a complex issue, the readers usually work together with PACS …
I want it to be easy to find providers by Specialty, so that the patient who looks for a Pediatrician finds it right away. A.: It is not foreseen. You can put the specialty after the surname, in the function of Administrator – Users. For example, Dr. Blanca Pérez Pediatra. Q.: I want to see …
How are the health insurance providers already admitted published? First of all, each country has a different health system and denomination, but the most common is Health Insurance. In Argentina there are Obras Sociales (obligatory for all workers) or Prepaid Insurance o Prepagas (of voluntary affiliation). In Administration – Practice – Health insurance companies there …
This issue always arises in medical areas, especially hospitals. Sometimes, the possible unfavorable legal implications of computerization are an excuse for not computerizing, although increasingly weaker. Sometimes the subject highlights the inadequacy of the current legislation, still several decades behind reality. For example, at a recent symposium in the Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires, a …
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