Today OpenEMR version 2.8.0 is released for download at the project’s SourceForge site. Concurrently, a companion FreeB release 0.11 is available.
Improvements since the previous stable OpenEMR release (2.7.2) are:
- Enhancements to access control
- New utility to simplify setting up access control
- Support for UB-92 claims
- New feature allowing administrator to delete patients, encounters and issues, with detailed logging
- New interface to the ReferCare referral management system
- Several new encounter forms: Assessment Intake, Clinical Notes, Football (Soccer) Injury, Podiatry, Specialist Notes, Sports Fitness
- New “modal” cascaded popup windows for improved user interfacing
- Batch exporting of patient information
- Interactive XML export of patient information
- Improved user interface for selecting dates
- Some corrections to the installation setup utility
- New script for backup to CD
- Added rendering provider information for claims
- Configurable paper size and margins for prescriptions
- Support for customizable billing code types
- Various new features for use by sports teams
- Option of showing appointment titles in the calendar display
- Improved display and editing of medical problems and other patient issues
- Improved tracking of payment responsibility
- Enhancements to patient statements
- Medical problems associated with an encounter may be selected when the encounter is created
- Patients search by “lastname, firstname” is supported
- Improved user interface for adding and editing appointments and other calendar events
- New reports: Appointments, Appointments/Encounters Cross Reference, Insurance Allocation
- Improved formatting for some reports
- Improved display of a patient’s list of encounters
- Improved display of patient history
- Ability to select a primary diagnosis for medical problems and other issues
- Added invoice details to EOB posting form
- Improved parsing of dates and telephone numbers
- Many additions and improvements to installation instructions and other documentation
- Many miscellaneous bug fixes
In addition, new features in FreeB 0.11 (over 0.10) are:
- UB-92 claims
- Added rendering provider information
- Added CPT modifiers to X12 claims
- Checked in ConfigFile.pm 1.3 which is required but hard to find in the wild
- Fixed problem with printing a separate HCFA per diagnosis
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes
Additional resources related to OpenEMR, including a demo installation, are available at www.oemr.org.