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Oct 2010

Feature requests

(1) Personal/Contact - add Age, Race/Ethnicity, and Blood Type

Race / Ethnicity

American Indian or Alaska Native
Asian
Black or African American
Hispanic/Latino
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
White

Blood Type: A+, B+, AB+, O+, A-, B-, AB-, O-

(2) Medications - consider a "+" button

 


Bug Fixes

(1) To open a document , instead of the download icon, click on the name of the document to open it - preferably in the browser screen rather than a pdf download.

(2) Blood Pressure, weight and height etc should all go under "Measurements". The title to Measurements should say Measurements and not My Blood Pressure Measurements. When adding another measurement item - should add "Goal" as an extra field

(3) When sending Prescription profile from OSCAR to PHR, display only one copy of the same medication (by comparing if the entire record is exactly the same)

(4) When changing the patient's email address in OSCAR, the patient will no longer receive notification and will need to be called so that the patient will haev to log in to his MyOSCAR account to actually change the email address there too.

 

 

 

 

** NOT YET SORTED OUT **

6)       The login screen and the “About” has promises that we in Chilliwack won’t be able to deliver initially (communicate with your doctor, request things, book online)- is there any way for us  to customize this wording for our situation?

7)       Can “Report a Problem” be linked to our help email ( myoscarhelp@shaw.ca ) ?

My plan is to build a "comprehensive" Test Patient and then to use it as a demo for the other docs in town so that they can see what they will be offering the patient (so I am hoping there is a way to edit the medications as it is rather messy right now).

 

I think the documents will be the most useful area for the patients-for those that keep the "paper binder" this will be the electronic equivalent.

It would be helpful if there were different areas in the documents  that they could sort the information into- at the moment it seems to be undifferentiated and ordered by date of upload.
I don't think the OSCAR documents system would work (ie  initially organized by date, but able to be organized by the category it was scanned into), rather I think having different boxes with each category would be more useful.
I would think that the most useful system would be to have the same categories as we have in OSCAR (consult, lab, radiology, pathology etc plus an extra box for labs and one for Medical Summary)  and then the ability for the patient to create as many custom categories as they desire (eg Speech and Hearing, Child development, Mental Health, Diabetic clinic, Dietician and so on- the list of possibles is endless)
When a document is transferred from OSCAR it would go to the same category box, and the patient when they upload their own stuff from home could chose what box they want the document to be placed in.
I am not sure if this is even possible, just throw it out as a suggestion.

I managed to sign up for a Google Health account (it says you need to reside in the US but it allowed me an account).
If you have not already seen Google Health, I strongly recommend it- I found it very user friendly and interactive (it even brought in Google Scholar links to obesity medical publications when I inserted my weight as 300lb!). Will attach some shots of it-I saved a webpage view, but it does not look the same when I upload it to this email, likely it filtered some of the code so I have included it as a text file as well. The Google Profile is a bit clunky when printed, but there was the option to print only part of the profile (it was like a CMS 3 export choice). I also included the wallet card printout.
I see a lot of features there that I think would be useful in MyOSCAR.
I noted how easy it was for me to sign up (It took as long as the time to read the consent) and am wondering if this kind of "web consent" functionality could not be incorporated into MyOSCAR?
 
I am looking at it from a community level where our plan is to have all the doctors on OSCAR EMR and all the patients on MyOSCAR and then to see what we can do as a community. Long way off but that is my vision..
 
Do you know the timeline for the revisions in MyOSCAR for Medications, Procedures, Allergies, Immunisations ?
 
My feeling at present is that MyOSCAR would not have enough use to our patients as a PCHR at present (the only real functionality would be documents) and I am wondering if we should not postpone its deployment until the revisions are in place? Even if this is several months away, I think giving the patients something that they can recommend to their friends will help it spread in acceptance.
 
I note that Google Health also has uncategorised document uploads.
My son has medical problems so from birth my wife has kept a track of all his appointments and documents.
His binder must have over 100 documents, all sorted by category (audiograms, surgeries, speech and hearing, consultations etc)
 
To upload all this stuff into a PCHR and not have any control over the categorisation would make it useless....so I think that having the ability to sort/categorize in the documents section in some way is essential.
 
Let me know what you suggest- our funding is theoretically time sensitive although I have asked in the past and it seemed that some creative accounting could be done so that we could extend our time period.

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