Release Features

Overview

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

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 4.1.0

• Official ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR Certification: http://tinyurl.com/3wxgc39

• Support for standardized immunizations entry (CVX codes)

• Added feature to add RXNORM data tables
• Added feature to add SNOMED data tables

• Support for Clinical Decision Rules (CDR)

• Calculation and reporting of Clinical Quality Measure (CQM)

• Calculation and reporting of Automated Measures Calculations (AMC)
• Addition of Mechanisms to track/record AMC.

• Addition of field to demographics to record patient death (if patient is deceased, then is indicated in the patient summary screen)

• Added a medical record template and WYSIWYG editor (called "Nation Notes") to the Layout Based Forms (LBF) engine.
• New data object/types supported in Layout Based Forms(LBF) and the form generation tool, XMLformgen.
• Added feature to Hide/Show Left Pane Menu
• E-Prescribing
• Embedded Internationalized Patient Portal
• Secure SOAP APIs to support third party patient portals

• Added a graphical form API.
• Added a graphical pain form.

• Patient education module added.

• Option to color code calendar elements by facility.

• Added a new CSS theme, babyblue.

• Chiropractor assessment form added to contrib

• Multitude of ,bug fixes, cosmetic fixes and security fixes.

• Ubuntu package is now compatible with Ubuntu 11.04