Release Features

Overview

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

Version 4.0

-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.