OpenEMR 4.1 Users Guide

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Users Guide

Main Topics

PDF Format

• OpenEMR 4.1 Users Guide

Wiki Format

• OpenEMR 4.1 Users Guide:

• Getting Started
• Main Screen & Navigation
• Setting Up Your Clinic
• Adding a New Patient
• Using the Calendar
• New Encounters & Coding
• Issues & Immunizations
• Patient Notes & Transactions
• Basic Billing
• Accounting & Receivables
• Reporting

Supplementary Topics

• Access Controls.
• ACL Fine Granular Control.
• Backup: Lest You Rue The Day. Windows users, take note of this Forum thread.
• Break Glass - Emergency Access configuration.
• Calendar Categories: How to Change Names, Colors and Intervals of Appointments.
• CAMOS module: An Intuitive Interface for Text Organization and Insertion in a Patient's Chart.
• Charges Panel.
• Clinical Decision Rules.
• HOWTO: Use OpenEMR's Dated Reminder.
• Encryption and Decryption of document.
• Fee sheet/service code entry & customization - from Openemr version 3.2.
• Contributed Forms. The Graphic Pain Map can be readily adapted to provide annotations on an uploaded image for any specialty.
• LBV (Layout Based Visit) Form customization & layout.
• Sample Layout Based Visit Form.
• LBV Forms For Ophthalmology A Pictorial Guide.
• Multiple Sites Module.
• Nation Notes: Medical Record Template engine with a WYSIWYG editor.
• Sample NationNotes Form.
• Batch Payment (EOP) and Statement Processing.
• Pharmacy Dispensary.
• Patient Portal.
• ePrescribing.
• Procedure configuration & order process.

• Diagnostic Laboratories Orders.
• Laboratory Catalogue Configuration.
• Laboratory Orders & Results.
• Procedures Module Configuration for Manual Result Entry: A pictorial guide.

• Laboratory Exchange User Documentation.
• Securing OpenEMR.
• OpenEMR Settings.
• User Settings.
• Import RxNorm and SNOMED Tables.
• Language Translations.
• HOWTO: Create A Claim- Ready Encounter
• List of OpenEMR Data Fields Required For Insurance Claims OpenEMR v4.x +
• OpenEMR 6.x Billing - Claims Workflows OpenEMR v4.x +
• OpenEMR 6.x Billing - Process Payments OpenEMR v4.x +
• HOWTO: Add Or Edit A Billing Code In OpenEMR -- for v7 but applies to 4.x+

• Superbills in OpenEMR - shows OpenEMR v7 but applies to all vers

Video Tutorials

Getting Started

OpenEMR Tutorial - Getting Started

Setting up your clinic

OpenEMR Tutorial - Setting up your clinic (part 1)

OpenEMR Tutorial - Setting up your clinic (part 2)

Adding a new patient

OpenEMR Tutorial - Adding a new patient

Using your calendar

OpenEMR Tutorial - Using your calendar

Documenting a visit/encounter

OpenEMR Tutorial - Documenting a visit/encounter

Issues, Problems & Immunizations

Openemr Tutorial - Issues, Problems & Immunizations

Billing and Claim Generation

OpenEMR Tutorial - Billing and Claim Generation

EOBs, Payments & Accounts Receivables

Openemr Tutorial - EOBs, Payments & Accounts Receivables

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Plan to post questions here that are frequently asked on the forums for OpenEMR version 4.1.

How do I get E-Prescribing working?

• There are currently two known options for ePrescribing in OpenEMR. Newcrop costs money, but is well integrated into OpenEMR. The free version of Allscripts isn't as well integrated. See OpenEMR ePrescribe wiki page for more details.

How do I get electronic lab results working?

• See Tony McCormick's 9/19/2011 Forum post.

How do I go about getting Meaningful Use now?

• The Official Web Site for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs
• See CVerk's excellent Forum posts describing how he successfully passed Meaningful Use attestation for 2011.
• See these excellent posts in the sourceforge forums by Dr Ronald Leemhuis describing how he plans to get the 2011 Medicare incentive.
• See these excellent posts describing this topic by Dr. Sam Bowen on the OEMR organization forum.
• 2013 Ophthalmologist's Meaningful Use Attestation A step-by-step pictorial guide.

How do I fix the calendar viewing screen layout problems?

• This can be fixed by installing the latest OpenEMR Patch.

Why is the Patient Summary screen so slow to load up?

• This can be fixed by installing the latest OpenEMR Patch.

Acknowledgments

• OpenEMR Acknowledgments Page
• Greater than 60 developers over the last 10 years have directly contributed code to this project.

• Meaningful Use Certification itself involved numerous individuals, companies and the OEMR organization. Detailed acknowledgments for this monumental feat can be found on the first post in this sourceforge forum.

• The User Manual (Main Topics) has been faithfully completed by Medical Information Integration for every OpenEMR version since 3.0 .
• The Video Tutorials have been contributed by Z&H Healthcare.