OpenEMR 4.1.1 Users Guide

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Users Guide

Main Topics

Wiki Format

• OpenEMR 4.1 Users Guide:

• Getting Started
• Main Screen & Navigation
• Setting Up Your Clinic
• Adding a New Patient
• Using the Calendar
• New Encounters & Coding
• Issues & Immunizations
• Patient Notes & Transactions
• Basic Billing
• Accounting & Receivables
• Reporting

Supplementary Topics

• Access Controls.
• Backup: Lest you rue the day. Windows users, take note of this Forum thread.
• Break Glass - Emergency Access configuration.
• CAMOS module: An Intuitive Interface for Text Organization and Insertion in a Patient's Chart.
• Charges Panel.
• Clinical Decision Rules.
• CDR Guide: How to add Rules for Clinical Quality Measures.
• CDR User Manual.
• Configure and Add Code Types.
• CouchDB Documents Module: Using CouchDB to store patient documents.
• Encryption and Decryption of document.
• Fee sheet/service code entry & customization - from Openemr version 3.2.
• LBV (Layout Based Visit) Form customization & layout.
• Sample Layout Based Visit Form Tutorial.
• LBV Forms For Ophthalmology: A Pictorial Guide.
• Multiple Sites Module.
• Nation Notes: Medical Record Template engine with a WYSIWYG editor.
• Sample NationNotes Form.
• Batch Payment (EOP) and Statement Processing.
• Pharmacy Dispensary.
• Phone numbers input: How to input phone numbers in three different places.
• Patient Portal.
• ePrescribing.
• Procedure configuration & order process.

Step wise explanation of how to configure Procedures:

• Diagnostic Laboratories Orders.
• Laboratory Catalogue Configuration.
• Laboratory Orders & Results.

• Laboratory Exchange User Documentation.
• Securing OpenEMR.
• Facility Specific User Information.
• OpenEMR Settings.
• User Settings.
• Import Standard Tables: An ICD9, ICD10, SNOMED and RxNorm Import Guide.
• Language Translations.
• Videos and Animations.

Video Tutorials

The Video Tutorials of the OpenEMR 4.1.1 User Guide is currently under construction. See the OpenEMR 4.1.0 Users Guide for the previous OpenEMR version manual.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Plan to post questions here that are frequently asked on the forums for OpenEMR version 4.1.1.

How do I get E-Prescribing working?

• There are currently two known options for ePrescribing in OpenEMR. Newcrop costs money, but is well integrated into OpenEMR. While the Allscripts is free, but isn't as well integrated. See OpenEMR ePrescribe wiki page for more details.

How do I get electronic lab results working?

• See post number 15 in the following sourceforge forum for details on this features: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openemr/forums/forum/202504/topic/4709788

How do I go about getting Meaningful Use now?

• The Official Web Site for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs
• See this excellent thread (posts 11 and 12 by cverk) in the sourceforge forum describing how cverk successfully passed Meaningful Use attestation for 2011: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openemr/forums/forum/202504/topic/4880702
• An additional thread (posts 5 and 6 by cverk) describing how cverk passed Meaningful Use attestation for 2012: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openemr/forums/forum/202504/topic/6544181
• See these excellent posts in the sourceforge forums by Dr Ronald Leemhuis describing how he plans to get the 2011 Medicare incentive: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openemr/forums/forum/202504/topic/4745124
• See this post by jojohit in the sourceforge forums (see post 3): http://sourceforge.net/projects/openemr/forums/forum/202504/topic/6018030
• See these excellent posts describing this topic by Dr. Sam Bowen on the OEMR organization forum: http://www.oemr.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=35
• 2013 Ophthalmologist's Meaningful Use Attestation A step-by-step pictorial guide.

Acknowledgments

• OpenEMR Acknowledgments Page
• Greater than 65 developers over the last 10 years have directly contributed code to this project.

• Meaningful Use Certification itself involved numerous individuals, companies and the OEMR organization. Detailed acknowledgments for this monumental feat can be found on the first post in this sourceforge forum.