Release Features

Overview

This is for listing the new features in each release.

Version 4.1.0

• Official ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR Certification: Certification Page
• Clinical Decision Rules (CDR)
• E-Prescribing
• Embedded Internationalized Patient Portal
• Secure SOAP APIs to support third party patient portals
• Graphical form API
• Graphical pain form
• Patient education portal
• Calculation and reporting of Clinical Quality Measure (CQM)
• Calculation and reporting of Automated Measures Calculations (AMC)
• Addition of mechanisms to track/record AMC
• Added a medical record template and WYSIWYG editor (called "Nation Notes") to the Layout Based Forms (LBF) engine
• Support for standardized immunizations entry (CVX codes)
• Can record patient death (if patient is deceased, then is indicated in the patient summary screen)
• Ability to Hide/Show Left Pane Menu
• Option to color code calendar elements by facility
• Support for importing RXNORM data tables
• Support for importing SNOMED data tables
• New data object/types supported in Layout Based Forms(LBF) and the form generation tool, XMLformgen.
• New CSS theme, babyblue
• Chiropractor assessment form
• Ubuntu package is now compatible with Ubuntu 11.04
• Numerous bug fixes, cosmetic fixes and security fixes

Version 4.0.0

• Officially ONC certified as a modular EHR: http://tinyurl.com/4sgaw8a
• Profound GUI improvements throughout entire application with full support of four CSS themes.
• New layout (sliding menus) display option.
• Patient Summary Screen, which displays modular patient information.
• Graphical charting of vital.
• Graphical charting of pertinent layout based forms.
• New improved Billing/Payment module.
• Added ability to delete a payment or adjustment, and to reset statements-sent count.
• Support for checking insurance eligibility.
• Added option for HCFA text form output
• Administration settings can be modified within OpenEMR (ie. no longer need to modify the globals file).
• User specific settings to control display layout and internationalization options.
• Support for multiple sites/databases from a single installation.
• Lab/procedure exchange and viewing module.
• New markedly improved logging engine (optional support of ATNA).
• Electronic Syndrome Surveillance reporting.
• Ability to search patients by procedures.
• Appointment report upgraded to list available appointments and support repeating appointments.
• Address book upgraded 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 edit patient insurance information in the new patient form.
• Widened support for CAMOS prescriptions and improved integration of CAMOS in the patient custom report..
• Translation editor module upgraded to manage local definitions and synchronize them with official translation releases.
• Support sorting/searching translations by the definitions in the translation editor module.
• Imagemagick (conversion of pdf's to jpg's) in custom reports is now supported on Windows servers also.
• Increased document upload size limit to 64MB.
• Upgraded to phpMyAdmin 2.11.10
• Supports command line installation.
• Updated user manual.
• Ability to produce EOB statements in PDF format.
• Improvements in Invoice Module.
• Support for custom formatting of currency, date and time.
• Added improved Messaging Module.
• Support for emergency user access.
• Support for an xml based method of form creation, xmlformgenerator.
• Patient photo and ID card are supported without any additional customizations.
• Packaged ICD9 codes with release.
• Support for recording disclosures.
• Improved security model.
• Numerous bug fixes.
• Migrated our development repository from cvs to git.

Pending Release

Version 4.1.1

• Version 4.1.1 has not yet been released. This section is currently under construction to prepare for the 4.1.1 release.
• Continues to have Official ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR Certification: Certification Page
• Supports ICD10 diagnosis and billing coding
• Supports SNOMED diagnosis coding
• Supports 19 languages
• Supports 5010 X12
• Ability to add support for region specific diagnosis/billing coding sets.
• Importing mechanism to support importing and upgrading of ICD9, ICD10, SNOMED and RxNORM standardized data.
• Modernized login screen
• Calendar layout improvements
• Compatible with MySQL 5.5 and PHP 5.4
• Ability to customize presription DEA,NPI and state license #, margins, and paper size
• Dated Reminders
• Explicit support for a separate primary provider and referring provider in patient demographics
• Billing and Payment module improvements
• Supports multiple billing code modifiers
• Support for procedure specific claim notes
• Supports CouchDB storage of documents
• Additional patient searching mechanism added (Patient List)
• Customizable Facility specific user information tracking
• CQM and AMC reports with options for assigning patient-provider relationships
• Sort fax/scan pages to match the original order in a displayed document
• Ability to enter/modify Vital Signs timestamps
• The disclosures display screen supports pagination
• Additional contributed forms
• Multiple bug and security fixes
• Multiple database performance enhancements
• Patching mechanism
• Patient Notes module and the Message module are fully integrated/compatible
• Translation module supports comments in constants and translations
• ADODB framework upgraded
• Jquery framework upgraded (in some parts)
• Ubuntu package supports upgrading of Multisite Module OpenEMR instances