Release Features

Overview

This is for listing the new features in each release (as of version 4.0).

Version 4.0

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Officially ONC certified as a modular EHR:
http://tinyurl.com/4sgaw8a

Profound GUI improvements throughout entire application (Title bar, Patient Summary, Reports).
Supports four different CSS themes.
Added a Patient Summary Screen, which displays modular patient information.
Added another layout (sliding menus) display option.
Added user specific settings to control display layout and internationalization options.
Added a lab/procedure exchange and viewing module.
Added another note creation method, xmlformgenerator.
Added graphical charting of vital.
Added graphical charting of layout based forms.
New markedly improved Billing/Payment module added.
Patient photo and ID card are supported without any additional customizations.
Packaged ICD9 codes with release.
Support for multiple sites/databases from a single installation.
Administration settings can be modified within OpenEMR (ie. no longer need to modify the globals file).
New markedly improved logging engine (optional support of ATNA).
Support for checking insurance eligibility.

Support for recording disclosures.

Electronic Syndrome Surveillance support added.

Added patient searching by procedure.


Improved appointment report to report available appointments and support repeating appointments.

Improved address book to capture person or company centric items, such as Laboratories.

Document corruption checking (via SHA-1 validation).

Exporting and importing of encrypyted documents.

Added ability to delete a payment or adjustment, and to reset statements-sent count
Added sorting in fax script, so page displays order matches original document
Fix in EOB in creating ar_session entries
Fix to prevent cross-scripting security vulnerability (involving the patient name).
Improvements in demographic form validation.
Fixed provider matching bug in encounter report.
Fixed display of provider in Billing Report page.
Fixed a minor syntax issue in the main database file.
Can now edit patient insurance information in the new patient form.
Link to the new patient form has been added to the calendar scheduler pop-up.
CAMOS prescription now works even if no encounter is selected.
Bug fix to not show html code in billing statements.
Bug fix in the number to text converter.
Bug fix in the language gui to avoid duplicate definitions
Bug fix in the sl_convert.php script
Added the initial code for automated bug testing.
Several bug fixes in the formmaker script
Several bug fixes in the language editor
Added a customization log feature to the language editor (If you want this feature, more configuration is required; see '''[[Configure Language Editor Improvements For 3.2|HERE]]''' for instruction)
Can filter by definitions in the language editor
Other improvements to the language editor gui
Imagemagick in custom reports supports Windows (see '''[[FAQ#What_is_ImageMagick.3F|HERE]]''' for more information)
Support internationalization (utf8 characters) in patient search screen
Bug fix to show dob and age in header when click encounter link in Billing->Fee screen
Support use of apostrophes and quotes in the administration->language gui
CAMOS support to clone justification billing codes
CAMOS billing codes set to be authorized by default
CAMOS form placeholders work in the reports
Increased document upload size limit to 64MB
Added option for HCFA text form output
Ensure a prescription drug name is entered in the prescription entry form
Fixed CAMOS form title bug in the patient custom reports, and modified so the CAMOS links will not be included when print these reports
Added a date widget to the insurance effective date entry in the demographics page
Fixed the insurance date widgets in the demographics page
Fixed the date widget in the find appointment page
Added an inventory transactions report.
Added a Procedure module.
Upgraded to phpMyAdmin 2.11.10 

Numerous bug fixes.

Incorporating improved security model (prevents sql-injection and xss attacks) in new code, and have converted approximately 20% of old code to this model.

Migrated our development repository from cvs to git.

Supports command line installation.

Updated User MAnual.

Ability to produce EOB statements in PDF format.

Improvements in Invoice Module.

Support to set currency symbol, date formatting and time formatting.