Access Controls Listing

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Access controls are used throughout OpenEMR to control access by user roles. It can be configured at Administration->ACL . This document is still under construction.

Access Controls

Administration (admin)

Superuser - can delete patients, encounters, issues (super)

Calendar Settings (calendar)

Database Reporting (database)

Forms Administration (forms)

Practice Settings (practice)

Superbill Codes Administration (superbill)

Users/Groups/Logs Administration (users)

Batch Communication Tool (batchcom)

Language Interface Tool (language)

Pharmacy Dispensary (drugs)

ACL Administration (acl)

Accounting (acct)

Billing (write optional) (bill)

Allowed to discount prices (in Fee Sheet or Checkout form) (disc)

EOB Data Entry (eob)

Financial Reporting - my encounters (rep)

Financial Reporting - anything (rep_a)

Patient Information (patients)

Appointments (write optional) (appt)

Demographics (write,addonly optional) (demo)

Medical Records and History (write,addonly optional) (med)

Transactions, e.g. referrals (write optional) (trans)

Documents (write,addonly optional) (docs)

Patient Notes (write,addonly optional) (notes)

Sign Lab Results (write,addonly optional) (sign)

Encounter Information (encounters)

Authorize - my encounters (auth)

Authorize - any encounters (auth_a)

Coding - my encounters (write,wsome optional) (coding)

Coding - any encounters (write,wsome optional) (coding_a)

Notes - my encounters (write,addonly optional) (notes)

Notes - any encounters (write,addonly optional) (notes_a)

Fix encounter dates - any encounters (date_a)

Less-private information (write,addonly optional) (relaxed)

Squads (squads)

  • Access Controls in this section define the user-specified list of squads.

Sensitivities (sensitivities)

Normal (normal)

High (high)

Lists (lists)

Default List (write,addonly optional) (default)

State List (write,addonly optional) (state)

Country List (write,addonly optional) (country)

Language List (write,addonly optional) (language)

Ethnicity-Race List (write,addonly optional) (ethrace)

Placeholder (placeholder)

Placeholder (Maintains empty ACLs) (filler)

  • Users do not need to know what this is (if curious, read below developer talk)
  • Developer talk:Simply used to ensure an ACL is never empty (note an ACL is filled with Access Controls); this is needed, because if all Access Controls are removed from an ACL, then the ACL will also be removed.

Nation Notes (nationnotes)

Nation Notes (nn_configure)

Patient Portal (patientportal)

Patient Portal (portal)