Hi everyone,

You may have noticed the barrage of notification emails from the forums today.

I have been adjusting all the current projects according to the discussions at the User meeting.

There was ALOT to get down.

I have attached the minutes to the this forum post (Those on the email list may need to visit the forum in order to get it).

It contains all the;

a) Outcomes for current projects including where they have moved to, what sort of support there was them etc.

b) The 18 new features discussed during the night.

 

And here are the new features. Not sure how the formatting will translate into email but the attached doc is a pdf so can be read universally.

 

PLEASE NOTE:

-> Very few of the new project ideas are Projects yet.

-> They will NEVER be made into projects unless there is some meaningful support via the forums (ie. Tell us how much yopu want it and how it could be better).

-> Once they are defined, they need $$$$. There are plenty of Seeking Funding ideas which have gone through the process which apparently people want but without pledges you won't see em in the real world.

 

Here is the list:

1.    Messaging

o        It appears that users use messaging in a variety of ways including how much people use messaging (some using it a little and others using it a lot).

o        A lot of people use Worklists (and to a lesser degree Schedules) to achieve the same purpose of messaging.

o        There was a request for messaging to be expanded to include the ability to

                                                  i.      Reply  - create a new message to the same sender.

                                                ii.      Edit messages – change text and status

                                              iii.      Add editing of the original message to the existing Forward method.

o        There was a  comment that tasks in Worklists already contain all this functionality and that having a Worklist assigned for messaging would achieve these goals.

o        This project has had a forum created (http://www.openvpms.org/forum/more-flexibility-messaging).

2.      Price Checks

o        There was a request for the ability for any staff member to generate an estimate/invoice for the purposes of price checks.

o        This temporary “Price Check” Invoice could then be assigned to a given Customer and Patient.

o        This button for this feature would need to be readily available from the Schedules/Worklists.

o        This project has had a forum created (http://www.openvpms.org/forum/price-checks).

3.      New Note + Visit button

o        The most common use of medical records is to add notes. If there is a note added without a visit (eg.Phone call etc) a Visit must first be created.

o        There was a request for a new button in Medical Records that allowed a user to create a New Visit & Note with one click.

o        There was also a suggestion that this button should also be present in the Patient Summary section so notes could be added from the Schedules (in the example of a phone call). But this note was removed given;

                                                  i.      The Patient usually needs to be found first

                                                ii.      If the Patient is in the Summary view it is already in the Patient workspace.

o        Elements to nail down:

                                                  i.      Will the new Visit inherit the date from the Note?

                                                ii.      How do we want the Visit Reason filled out? It was suggested it should say “Communication”.  What about just Blank and edit it later?

o        This project has had a forum created (http://www.openvpms.org/forum/new-note-and-visit-button).

4.      Copy and Paste appointments

o        Allow users to Copy appointments using exactly the same method as current Cut & Paste.

5.      Increase the size of the Invoice note

o        Increase the character limit on the invoice note.

o        Increase the physical space to write a note in the Invoice Editor.

6.      Show available characters left in note fields

o        Show how many characters are left when typing a note.

o        Once limit reached, prevent further typing.

7.      Add clinician to note header

o        This has been created and moved straight to Developer review for an estimate.

8.      Add “None” option to Payment Items

o        Users explained that since there is a default selection for payment types occasionally that Payment type will be entered by accident.

o        The request was that there was a “None” option in the Payment type list.

o        A payment would still be rejected if the None option was still selected, forcing the user to choose one.

o        Practices wanting to keep a different default (eg. EFTPOS) will still be able to do so.

9.      Add a default value option for the Status in the Workflow – Messaging

o        Currently Status defaults to Pending.

o        A user wanted the option to set what this default value was.

10.             Bug when entering Macros in Input Fields of Letters from Macro List

o        Currently after a macro is entered from the Alt-M macro list the cursor gets locked.

o        The exact details of this behaviour need to be further detailed before we send it to the developers as a bug report.

11.             Add microchip to Summary View

o        Add microchip number to this area for better visibility.

 

12.             Show possible duplicate Customer/Patients

o        During adding a new Customer or Patient show possible Duplicates is an adjacent list.

o        The adjacent list could be populated with Customer/Patient Descriptions hence containing some ancilliary data.

o        Possible matching criteria could be;

                                                  i.      Names (one of)

                                                ii.      Address elements

                                              iii.      Identities (Microchips, pet tags)

o        Issues may include performance and setting criteria for possible duplicates .

o        Duplicates should also be ranked by some index of similarity.

o        List should be limited to a number consistent with good performance.

13.             Expand Investigations to include a mechanism for direct referral interactions.

o        Using this new feature Vets could send referral historys, summary letters and attachments to a referral vet using OpenVPMS.

o        The referring vets replys would automatically be linked to the relevant patient.

o        The system would need to be able to handle multiple communications.

14.             Product information system.

o        This feature would allow a 3^rd Party to provide key information via a link to a website etc that provides up to date product information such as;

                                                  i.      MSD sheets

                                                ii.      Dispensing information

                                              iii.      Recommendations for use

o        Hills Pet food have already expressed an interest in this.

15.             Invoice line item rounding

o       There was a request for an option to round invoice items at the level of each individual item.

o       This would need to be able to switched on/off

o       At the level of each product

o       Have a default state (ie. Either On/Off) set at Practice level for new Products.

16.             DICOM image retrieval.

o       This feature would allow a OpenVPMS to retrieve a DICOM image using Patient unique IDs by clicking on a patient medical record and have it appear in a DICOM viewer on a workstation running OpenVPMS.

17.             Price update workspace

o       This feature would users to perform batch operations on their product database including;

o       Unit price updates by fixed or percentage amounts.

o       Fixed price updates by fixed or percentage amounts.

o       Filtering of the product set for batch operations by;

§         Name

§         Group

§         Type

§         Active/Deactive

§         PriceRange

o       Price updates may be entered as “Versions” so that the old prices remain visible and a price history can be seen.

18.             Mail merge workspace

o       This workspace would allow users to

o       Create a list of Customers using a variety of criteria

o       Choose a document template

o       Merge the Customers to the template

o       This can currently be done using Export As CSV features + a 3^rd party application like Word/Openoffice but this solution is simpler and more elegant.

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