OpenEMR 4.2.0 Users Guide

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Users Guide

Main Topics

Wiki Format

• OpenEMR 4.2.0 Users Guide:

• Getting Started
• Main Screen & Navigation
• New Clinic OpenEMR Setup

• OpenEMR 4.1 Workflows:

• Adding a New Patient
• Using the Calendar
• New Encounters & Coding
• Issues & Immunizations
• Patient Notes & Transactions
• Basic Billing
• Accounting & Receivables
• Reporting

Supplementary Topics

• Access Controls.
• Admin Globals Summary
• 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.
• CDR Guide: How to add Rules for Clinical Quality Measures.
• CDR User Manual.
• Configure and Add Code Types.
• CouchDB Documents Module: Using CouchDB to store patient documents.
• Using "Direct" Communication: How to use "Direct" communication in OpenEMR.
• Encryption and Decryption of document.
• Fee Sheet Custom Service Categories
• 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 Tutorial.
• LBV Forms For Ophthalmology: A Pictorial Guide.
• Multiple Sites Module.
• Nation Notes: Medical Record Template engine with a WYSIWYG editor.
• Sample NationNotes Form.
• Patient Note and Form Searching.
• Batch Payment (EOP) and Statement Processing.
• Pharmacy Dispensary.
• Phone numbers input: How to input phone numbers in three different places.
• Patient Portal.
• ePrescribing.
• Procedure configuration & order process.

Step wise explanation of how to configure Procedures:

• Diagnostic Laboratories Orders.
• Laboratory Catalogue Configuration.
• Laboratory Orders & Results.

• Electronic Procedure Orders.
• Laboratory Exchange User Documentation.
• Securing OpenEMR.
• Facility Specific User Information.
• OpenEMR Settings.
• User Settings.
• Import Standard Tables: An ICD9, ICD10, SNOMED and RxNorm Import Guide.
• Templates for Patient Documents
• Language Translations.
• Videos and Animations.

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 4.1.3.

How do I get E-Prescribing working?

• See OpenEMR ePrescribe wiki page for details.

How do I get electronic lab results working?

• See Tony McCormick's 9/19/2011 post in the SourceForge forums for details on this feature.

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 12/6/2011 and 1/5/2012 posts in the SourceForge forums describing how he successfully passed Meaningful Use attestation for 2011.
• An additional thread (both 1/5/2013 posts by CVerk) describing how he passed Meaningful Use attestation for 2012.
• See these excellent posts (10/8/2011 and 10/12/2011) in the SourceForge forums by Dr. Ronald Leemhuis describing how he planned to get the 2011 Medicare incentive.
• See Jojo Pornebo's 10/15/12 post in the SourceForge forums, regarding Medicaid Meaningful Use.
• See this excellent thread describing the topic by Dr. Sam Bowen on the OEMR organization forum.
• 2013 Ophthalmologist's Meaningful Use Attestation A step-by-step pictorial guide.

Acknowledgments

• OpenEMR Acknowledgments Page
• Greater than 90 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.