Release Features
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Overview
- This is for listing the new features in each release.
Version 4.1.1
- Continues to have Official ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR Certification: Certification Page
- Supported in 19 languages
- Supports ICD10 diagnosis and billing coding
- Supports SNOMED diagnosis coding
- 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
- Reminders and Dated Reminders
- Compatible with MySQL 5.5 and PHP 5.4
- Ability to customize prescription layout, DEA, NPI and state license number
- 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
- Ubuntu package supports upgrading of Multisite Module OpenEMR instances
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.
Version 4.1.2
- UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR NEXT RELEASE
- Continues to have Official ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR Certification: Certification Page
- Supported in __ languages
- Support to Transfer Medical Records via Direct Messaging
- Merging of Duplicate Patient Records/Accounts
- Searching of Patient Forms/Notes
- Lab Results in Patient Reports
- Embedded PhpMyAdmin Upgraded
- EDI Claim History Analysis Module
- Patient Report PDF Output
- Ability to Clear Active Patient
- Extended SNOMED Support to Import US Extension Code Set and Non-English SNOMED Code Sets
- More Flexibility Setting Recurring Calendar Appointments
- Support Electronic Lab Ordering and Result Collection
- Option to Show Configurable Number of Past Clinic Appointments on Patient Summary Screen
- Security Improvements
- Session Management Improvements
- CDR Engine Reporting Improvements
- Patient Portal (both onsite and offsite) Improvements
- Lab Improvements
- Fee Sheet Improvements
- Billing Improvements
- Patient Form Improvements
- Code Type Improvements
- Improvements to Date of Birth calculations, formatting and options
- Support for lb and ounces in vitals
- Support for Background Services and a Background Services Manager Interface
- New Forms
- Improved Configuration Options for Growth Charts
- Improved Configuration Support for Adding Code Types/Sets
- Improved Configuration Support for Issues
- Improved Interface for Adding, Modifying and Configuring Codes
- Automated Installation Script Improvements
- Immunization Module Improvements
- Vast number of bug fixes
- Improved Configuration Options of Code Types
- Document Module Engine Improvements