Open Source Electronic Medical Records Software
Open Source Electronic Medical Records Software
If you have a measurement in your OSCAR called “OCBL” (ocult blood, so to flag as normal or abnormal) mapped per LOINC to FIT, you can run the SQL script below to update the OCBL to measurements (it updates the…
You can use the open source Tesseract ocrmypdf BASH command to OCR PDF’s. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) makes PDFs searchable, i.e. incoming faxes/documents can be OCR’d to make finding information in PDFs easier. Take the fax pdf folder and OCR…
For those familiar with Health Card validation specification, you know that each valid health card number must pass the MOD 10 check digit process, as do credit cards and SIN numbers etc. It’s not a totally random number as you…
To make outgoing referrals (called Consultations) from OSCAR or to link a demographic to a referring physician and their billing number, the physician you are referring to/referencing needs to be in the specialists list so they can be selected. For…
From Peter Hutten-Czapski (for OSPs in Ontario): To be made into a .sh executable shell script to copy last years’ billings so that the files are not overwritten by OSCAR.
From Ian Pun – SQL script to clear the OHIP Error Code 30 showing up on INVOICE REPORTS for the Dec 1/2022 virtual visit (for OSPs):
On the OSCAR schedule screen, users are frequently changing patient’s appointment status as they progress through the clinic (To Do, Here, Exam Room, Seen, Billed, etc.) You can either click on the appointment and change the status via the Status…
See my OSCAR Training video below which shows step-by-step how to send documents, eForms, attachments, and lab reports to patients from OSCAR EMR.
In OSCAR, the eForm tag for ‘phone’ will by default only display the phone number from the patient’s HOME phone field in their demographic record. But nowadays it is common for patients to not have a home phone, so their…
Do you find yourself (or your staff) needing to add a prevention, print a current eForm, add a document, open a specific flowsheet, see labs, etc. from the schedule screen frequently? For most clinics this means hundreds (or thousands) of…