Release Features

Overview

This is for listing the new features in each release.

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.

Pending Release

Version 4.1.1

Version 4.1.1 has not yet been released. This section is currently under construction to prepare for the 4.1.1 release.

• Compatible with MySQL 5.5
• Compatible with PHP 5.4
• PENDING