Continuing the discussion from Meet the community: Introduce yourself here!:
What would be your top 5 enhancements/changes to the OpenEMR platform. We are developing the direction for LibreHealthEHR.
Terry
Continuing the discussion from Meet the community: Introduce yourself here!:
What would be your top 5 enhancements/changes to the OpenEMR platform. We are developing the direction for LibreHealthEHR.
Terry
@Ana_Maria_Espinoza Wonderful to see you here! Isn’t this awesome! Personally, I want to see the business side of LibreHealth products (personal effort toward LibreHealthEHR) get more complete coverage for US businesses, as well as do some serious internationalization. Lower administrative burden means better patient care at a more cost-effective rate, which drives healthcare availability, which addresses the BIG issues of high population and poverty. I have noticed that poverty seems to be a pretty high risk factor for a lot of things.
That said, we have almost zero input for international business management tools, forms, processes, regulatory standards etc. It would be incredible if someone could say: “Here is what we need to run a practice in the Dominican Republic.”, or "Here is what Dominica would like for a national healthcare system." We need clinical form design for development in a wide range of social and geographic areas too, but you can’t do progress notes if the clinic doors are not open.
Allons-y! Allez! Allez! -Art
Great questions and thanks for the chance to contribute. These are the top things on my mind so far - needs and technology are in constant movement, so…
Let´s talk more!
AM
We are working on most all the items on your list. We really need input from the user base to help define the best overall direction for the software as Art stated we just have the US base to work from but really want to be a help to all.
The database normalization is on our list. There are some form changes , called Annotate Diagram that will allow any PNG file to be used as a form. We are talking about a report module and what it will take to give the users the ability to create their own reports based on their needs. I would invite you to create a topic and continue this discussion. We always need great Ideas.
Great to hear that Terry. Now, if want to hear about the end users needs, here are a small list - from a biggest one
There are more… let´s talk!
This is really great. Point of sale , accounting and billing are big for me. That is were I make most of my changes.Can I ask what version of the software your users are using.
We use v4.1.4. This version meges the community one and other enhancements designed by one of the INGO who I work with.
Item No. 2 for me is one of the most relevants and required IF - and happens currently - the health facility is located in rural or similar areas. OpenMRS as well as other similar tools, like DHIS2 has addressed in some way this need. Perhaps the solution is more clear now, having the link among Opens´systems…
And let´s think in the report areas based on audience or user groups. In medical practice, patient traceability is a must, and responds to a very specific user groups: practitioners and medical audits, while patient follow up for certain services requires reports in a fashion of “alerts”
To be continue…
Yes, burying the history, lifestyle etc… is a dumb move. On the other hand, it is impossible to show everything all at once, especially when the mobile data consumers are whining that it doesn’t look like twitter. Too much data on one page, or even pre-loading too much is also a performance issue.