Category Tips

Fax Providers Comparison

There are currently 2 major internet-based Fax providers that work with OSCAR. This is meant to be an objective and detailed comparison based on users’ reported experiences and advertised features. The author has also extensively tested both providers entirely. SRFax…

London Ontario Area eForms

For clinics / physicians in the SouthWest LHIN / Southern Ontario / London area, I have created many eForms that you can take advantage of. Some are not yet listed on the downloads page anywhere so please fill the form…

Document Upload File Size Limit

The default size limit for uploading files into OSCAR is 100MB, but you can modify this in the struts-config.xml property is set in the following tag, and would need a tomcat restart to take effect: <controller processorClass=”org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor”> maxFileSize=”100M” />

OSCAR Lab Schema Tips

Here’s some info on how the hl7TextInfo, hl7_link, hl7_msh, hl7_obx, hl7_obr, hl7_pid, providerLabRouting, patientLabRouting tables and measurements relate in OSCAR. Lab comes in and writes to hl7TextMessage. I’ll call this hmessage The lab is “dissected” and inputted into: hl7TextInfo I’ll call this…

OSCAR 19 Drug Interactions Interface Video

The Drug Interactions From Peter Hutten Czapski: I have created a 2 min video demonstrating how to use the interactions function for the latest OSCAR 19 build 2890 OSCAR 19 uses the RxNorm interface from the National Library of Medicine…

Make satellite clinic details accessible in eForms

OSCAR supports multisite/multi location clinics, where each can have its own clinic name/address/phone/fax, and doctors can be assigned to multiple locations to choose which details show up on each Rx, have different schedule templates assigned to each location, etc. By…

Preventions Customization and Adding Custom Preventions

Some advanced preventions customization tips from Peter Hutten-Czapski How can I group Preventions screening and Immunizations to show them as different groups? Just change the headingName in the definition in a custom   OSCAR look for your settings through the oscar.properties file with…