Appointments Module

Purpose and Benefits

Appointments module provides the ability to give appointments to patients and then manage their flow through once they arrive at a clinic. In simple terms, the module allows implementations to do the following:

1. Create a schedule of when providers are available to see patients

2. Schedule appointments for patients based on provider schedule

3. Manage the patient queue through the clinic when the patients arrive for their appointments.

Steps:

1. Add ‘omod’ files required for 'Appointments module' to OpenMRS

Download and add the following omod files in /opt/openmrs/modules and restart OpenMRS.

1. Core Apps module - https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/177/core-apps-module

2. HTML Form Entry modules:

• https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/58/htmlformentry

• https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/60/htmlformentryui

• https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/59/htmlformentry19ext

3. App UI module - https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/8/appui

4. Appointment Scheduling UI module - https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/200/appointment-scheduling-ui-module

5. Appointment Scheduling module - https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/7/appointmentscheduling

6. Reporting module - https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/119/reporting

7. Reporting Rest module -   https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/121/reportingrest

After adding the above omods in the modules folder, ‘App: appointmentschedulingui.home’ privilege and other privileges required for the appointments module are automatically added in OpenMRS.  

 2. Assign Roles and Privileges

Create a new Appointment role in OpenMRS->Administration->Manage Roles. Assign the appointments module related privileges to that role and then assign this new role to a user.

Refer to this video for creating roles in OpenMRS https://www.fuzemeeting.com/replay_meeting/0d7c6e99/7842034

INSERT INTO person_attribute_type (name, description, format, searchable, creator, date_created, retired, sort_weight, uuid) VALUES ('Telephone Number', 'Telephone Number', 'java.lang.String', '0', 1, now(), 0, 3, uuid());

INSERT INTO person_attribute_type (name, description, format, searchable, creator, date_created, retired, sort_weight, uuid) VALUES ('Unknown patient', 'Unknown Patient', 'java.lang.String', '0', 1, now(), 0, 3, uuid());

"bahmni.appointments": {
   "id": "bahmni.appointments",
   "extensionPointId": "org.bahmni.home.dashboard",
   "type": "link",
   "label": "Appointments",
   "url": "../../openmrs/appointmentschedulingui/home.page",
   "icon": "fa-user",
   "order": 11,
   "requiredPrivilege":  "App: appointmentschedulingui.home"
}