Release Features

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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

  • 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