Site Bugs and Improvements

[Aethelwulffe]

First item:
1. The drop down menus are a total pain. For their size, their latency is too low. They disappear when you try to click on them, especially the link to the forum (waaaaaay at the bottom).
2. Eye candy. Sara is working on front page stuff, but anyone with logos, banners, write-ups or anything else that would make good material for flyers and the like should post/attach that material to a thread here.

[brady]

Hi Art,

Not experiencing the latency issues; hopefully the new layout will solve this problem.

A minor suggestion is to place pop-over text (these can be annoying, so rec generally avoiding them) in the following links:
OEMR - "OEMR is a non-profit organization that supports the OpenEMR project."
OpenEMR - "OpenEMR is a open source electronic health records and medical practice management application."
(this will help clear up any confusion if the user confuses the two names while not on the home page)

Another suggestion is remove the 'read more' content from the home page. This can all be read when the user clicks on OpenEMR or OpenEMR->about in the header. This way, keep the OEMR and OpenEMR summary and their relation to each other in one viewing page.

I also think the Open Source? content should be a succinct and concise page that simply tries to convince users (especially physicians) why an open source emr is better than a proprietary one (after providing a straightforward definition of open source). This is a huge hurdle in OpenEMR acceptance and this page/link is a nice way to attack that issue head on. I think Jack may be working on writing content for a page like this.

thanks,
-brady

[Aethelwulffe]

I'll try to look into why I am experiencing the latency issues. If I find that several different systems (or even one other) experience the behavior, I suggest that we treat it seriously no matter what. 10% failure rate would be too high I feel.

I agree with the "plop-over" or mouseover text. I don't know about Drupal, but I know it is possible to position hover text anywhere you like and do a wide range of things with active pages...more so with php than the .asp I am more familiar with. Within a couple of months, I will be writing most of my apps for HTML5, and I hope we can get some serious use out of that. I can imagine a lot of use for it in providing graphical add-on modules for the emr as well.

[brady]

Regarding latency,
maybe there's a setting somewhere in the menu Shameem set up.
-brady

[brady]

hi,

Just did the following to the pop-over text in the menu of OEMR and OpenEMR menu:
OEMR - "OEMR is a non-profit organization that supports the OpenEMR project."
OpenEMR - "OpenEMR is a open source electronic health records and medical practice management application."
(this will help clear up any confusion if the user confuses the two names while not on the home page)

If anybody has issues with it, just let me know.

thanks,
-brady

[brady]

hi,
Regarding the paypal link, I'm suggesting it gets placed in the top right column of all pages. thoughts?
-brady

[brady]

hi
I just placed the links to open-emr.org on the home page and on the About OpenEMR page. Should be ok. Let me know if any issues.
thanks,
-brady

[brady]

Hi,

After noting the following reply to Sam at bottom of this blog:
http://www.emrandhipaa.com/emr-and-hipa ... s-it-cost/

Would like to re-bump the following suggestion above:
"I also think the Open Source? content should be a succinct and concise page that simply tries to convince users (especially physicians) why an open source emr is better than a proprietary one (after providing a straightforward definition of open source). This is a huge hurdle in OpenEMR acceptance and this page/link is a nice way to attack that issue head on. I think Jack may be working on writing content for a page like this."

Rather than overload that 'Open Source?' link with a bunch of links/articles/text, suggest placing a well crafted, brief, concise page to do the following:
1. Define open source
2. State several very successful open source projects in other areas and the common open source principles that made them successful (this may not be useful if distracts from the main point 3. below)
3. State why open source is better for emr
These are just my initial thoughts, and practically speaking, when you start writing you may go in another direction, just suggest keeping in mind the target audience (the physician not educated in open source EMR's).

Once you have this well crafted page, you can then begin to place this link in the blogs when you run into posters such as Sam has in the above blog link.

-brady

[healthcarescene]

Hi,

After noting the following reply to Sam at bottom of this blog:
http://www.emrandhipaa.com/emr-and-hipa ... s-it-cost/

...

Once you have this well crafted page, you can then begin to place this link in the blogs when you run into posters such as Sam has in the above blog link.

-brady

Hi Brady,
As owner of the site that's linked above, I'd be more than happy to post the content you describe on my site for all to see and to spread the message of open source EMR. I'm a big fan of open source and run my business largely on open source products. So, I'm more than happy to help you spread your message of the benefits of open source EMR with my EMR audience. Feel free to send me the post on my Contact Us page: http://www.emrandhipaa.com/contact-us/

[drbowen]

I seems that we need a response about how to get quality help to run more complex applications as well as a link to qualified vendors who can help physician's run OpenEMR. (Perhaps any EHR not just ours).

Sam Bowen, MD