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OpenEMR 2.7.2 Released

Today the OpenEMR project has produced its first major release since moving to SourceForge back in March.

Some highlights of the 2.7.2 final release are:

  • An overhauled, faster and nicer-looking appointment calendar
  • Support for current versions of the SQL-Ledger accounting system, deprecating the old “forked” sql-ledger sub-project of OpenEMR
  • Partial implementation of access controls based on the phpGACL project
  • Improved tracking of immunizations
  • Patient problems can be associated with specific encounters and vice versa
  • New forms for EOB entry, payment posting and adjustments
  • Patient statements and collection letters
  • New reports including cash receipts and cross-referencing of appointments with encounters
  • Demographics export to a commercial laboratory system
  • Support for some FreeB (billing system) fixes

The SourceForge OpenEMR project pages can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/openemr/.

Yahoo Group for MBN scam victims open

Editor’s Note: Linux Medical News is devoted to Free and Open Source Software in Medicine so this is off topic. That said, the response to our previous story on Medical Billers Network has been overwhelming. Too overwhelming. Please put all your future posts to this announced discussion group that Linux Medical News did not create or run. I have opened a new Yahoo Group to organize all the victims of the Medical Billers Network scam. I ask that if you were scammed out of your money by Medical Billers Network as I was, please join my discussion group here.

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Brazilian government finances development of open source HIS

Approximately 60 thousand US dollars awarded for open source Care2x. This milestone for Care2x acceptance in Brazil was made by a federal supporting agency called FINEP of the brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT). The financial support was awarded to the Institute for Scientific and Technological Research (IPCT) of a large southern brazilian university PUCRS in partnership with the Alfamais.com group. The university research department is being directed by Professor Dario Azevedo while the Alfamais group is composed of former university professors and e-learning consultants.

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OpenEMR Registers Over 6,000 Patients in 2.5 days

Rural Area Medical Volunteer Corp (RAM) uses OpenEMR and registers over 6,000 patients in 2.5 days using a single 1.7 Ghz server accessed by 25 workstations. “At several points during the clniic we were registering a new patient every 15 seconds.” The quotes below were provided to Pennington Firm by volunteers at RAM.
“We used OpenEMR for registration at RAM Expedition #400, held at the Wise County Fairgrounds on July 23-25 and it worked flawlessly. Paper based registration and encounters were used this year, as backup, in case of equipment failure (which didn’t happen).”

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