LOL.. I wish I knew.. Jon doesn't tell me what he's working on to any great detail.
I've added a couple of things to the template parser that will probably make it to the next version, as they're very trivial patches.
I'm working on a new template system, which organizes the templates into nested folders, with full drag-and-drop support, but it will be completely up to Jon if it is something he's going to want to incorporate or not.
Another thing I started working on - which I'd like some feedback on from the group before I pitch it to Jon, is context sensitive comboboxes on the medication form. Currently this is loaded with "One tablet daily", "One tablet BID", etc, plus "Apply to affected area BID", etc. What I started on last night is to load the pull-down choices in the SIG box with entries appropriate for the dose form, based on the text in the name of the medication For example, if you're prescribing "Celebrex capsules 200mg", it would see a word containing "capsule" in it and the choices would be "One CAPSULE daily", etc. If the name contains "cream" or "ointment" only have the directions for topical medications in the pull-down, things like that. Means there are less entries in the pull-down menu, which will speed things up when you prescribe. I know it sounds silly, but is something that bugs me, so I'm gonna fix it.
I also added a feature that allows sending "orders" to a second e-mail box. In our office all the referrals go to the "referral" mailbox, all records requests go to the "records" mailbox. If you have a radiology tech in house and want to send her an x-ray order without having to forward the chart, this works great.. we've found a ton of things to use it for in-house. So far, though, Jon hasn't shown any interest in accepting this one. I plan to bring it up again when he's got the things he's currently working on out of the way.
I have a few more goodies I'm working on, but too early to really talk about them.
You have to understand - I do not work for Jon. I am, however, in a unique position. Because of my 25+ years of computer engineering experience, Jon has given me the ability to fix bugs and make changes in the code. Sometimes the changes I suggest make sense and he uses them, sometimes he can't quite follow my wisdom, and he doesn't.
Mostly I'm looking to make changes that save me or my staff time. Having the quantities and directions in a prescription in pull-downs saves me 20 minutes per day.
I know Jon and his team are hard at it trying to get the lab interface to be solid. I don't know if I'm at liberty to disclose any of the new features that they're working on, but if Jon says I can spill the beans, I will :-)
It looks like the message board "polling" feature is turned on, so maybe we can list possible features and have the users vote on which ones they want. I talked to Jon about allowing attachments, but when they had them before the board got spammed by porn, which was a problem. I don't know if the forum software will allow adding another forum where all entries are moderated, but allow attachments - that way if there is spam I can delete it before it hits the group.
Feedback welcome,
V.
