OpenClinic

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: version 0.7

Notes:
OpenClinic: Web Medical Records System
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Welcome to OpenClinic!

First of all, thanks a lot to download this software, I hope that you can enjoy it.

OpenClinic is free software, released under GNU GPL Licence version 2.0 (see LICENSE file for details)

Introduction
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OpenClinic is an easy to use, open source, medical records system written in PHP. It has been mainly thougth for private clinics, surgeries and private doctors. It is platform independent and it has multilanguage architecture.

Currently OpenClinic has the following options:

    * Medical Records

      Use this option to manage your patient's medical records.

      Patient's Administration:
          o Search, new, delete, edit
          o Social Data
          o Clinic History
          o Problem Reports

    * Admin

      Use this option to manage administrative options.
          o Config settings
          o Theme editor
          o Staff members
          o System Users
          o Dumps
          o Log Statistics

Requirements
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    * PHP4 >= 4.2 (due to session variable changes in PHP 4.2) compiled with MySQL support (tested with versions 4.2.* and 4.3.*);

    * MySQL (tested with versions 3.23.36, 3.23.49, 3.23.51, 3.23.52, 3.23.54, 3.23.55, 4.0.16 and 4.0.18);

    * a web server prepared to execute PHP code (recommended Apache);

    * and, of course, a web browser (with JavaScript and good CSS2 support).

Features
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    * Environment: Web Environment

    * Intended Audience: Education, Healthcare industry

    * License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

    * Natural Language: English, Spanish, Bulgarian

    * Operating System: OS Independent

    * Programming Language: PHP

    * Topic: Dynamic Content

Multilingual Support
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OpenClinic offers multilingual support, so anyone who wants to contribute a language can create a new .po file (portable object) and enjoy his/her own language. Every language that it send to me will be included in the next release.

Download
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You can get the newest version at http://sourceforge.net/projects/showfiles.php?group_id=70742

Farewell
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Please, enjoy OpenClinic and remember that this is free GPL software and comes without any warranty and without technical support, so please don't email me asking how to make this or that, I'll ignore that type of emails.

OpenClinic isn't perfect, but your suggestions, feedback and bug reports can help us to have a very well done medical records system!

PS: Please, excuse my English, I'm not a native speaker. Also, remember I receive too many emails, so I can't answer to all you, but for sure I'll read all emails I receive.


-- Jose Antonio Chavarría <jachavar@terra.es>


Changes:
OpenClinic 0.7 Released!

More important changes since 0.6:

  * DbConnection class: connection parameters are set in constructor function
  * New file lib/debug_lib.php: new application constant OPEN_DEBUG (true | false)
  * Suppression of javascript protocol in href attributes
  * Fixed problems with inexistent things
  * Changes in connect method of Query class to permit connection parameters
  * DTD XHTML 1.1 in all project pages
  * No GET values to *_del.php files (via POST now)
  * If items per page equal to zero, searchs return all results without pagination
  * Fixed possible XSS attacks with JavaScript event handlers in input fields
  * New option CREATE DATABASE __dbname__ in MySQL dumps and table summary
  * Profiles option in admin tab has been removed (and profile_tbl from database too)
  * Redirections to avoid reload problem in insertions, updates or deletions processes
  * Fixed problems with dumps as files (urldecode of data is unnecessary)
  * Custom error handler for log to screen or/and to a file (new constants in read_settings.php file: OPEN_SCREEN_ERRORS, OPEN_LOG_ERRORS, OPEN_LOG_FILE)
  * Record log process improvements: now is saved entire record data
  * New constant in global_constants.php file: OPEN_SEPARATOR for implode(), explode() functions; OPEN_MSG_INFO, OPEN_MSG_WARNING, OPEN_MSG_ERROR for messages
  * CSS2 table less based themes, changes in theme_tbl table and admin/theme_*.php files (new file admin/theme_preload_css.php)

Best Regards.

-- Jose Antonio Chavarría <jachavar@terra.es>