Hi Folks-- A couple of questions from an OpenMRS beginner... By way of quick intro: I'm assisting an organization that is providing medical care to approx 1,700 Haitian orphans and looking to use an electronic medical record. The primary goals at this time are to track growth and immunization status. We have a stable OpenMRS 1.82 implementation configured in an Amazon EC2 instance. The growth chart module is installed and working. A few questions that have come up:
1) When entering a new patient, is there a way to automatically generate the next available ID #? Or barring that, have it auto-calculate the check-digit when entering one for the first time? 2) What is the best way to record the immunization dates? Currently, I've done <obs conceptId="1410" answerConceptId="159716"/> (Where 1410 = Vaccine Date and 159716=Tetanus Containing Vaccines). Will this carry forward longitudinally and be easily reportable? Is there a better way? Is this the right level of granularity? (or should I be recording dates of Td, TDaP individually and using 159716 as a way to roll it up and report?) 3) Is there a way to tie this to a drug order, so that if a specific vaccine is ordered it would update the field? 4) I tried a few versions of the EzVac Immunization module, but was getting a number of java errors when I attempted to upload the .csv rules. I'm not clear whether this is intended to provide guidance on what's needed or help track what's been given. I couldn't find documentation or guidance to tell if that was the way to go. Thanks -- I'd appreciate any advice and guidance! --L ---- Larry A Nathanson MD Director of Emergency Medicine Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School One Deaconess Rd W/CC-2 Boston MA 02215 617-754-2389 [email protected] _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-implement-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l]
