Bar Code Implementation

[Agnalda da Graça]

Hi

Is anyone implementing a module for Bar Code reading? If yes, what are the version of OpenMRS that it´s being used and what are the other dependence modules (if any)

[Tobin Greensweig]

Hi,

We aren't currently doing this but my understanding is that you can just encode "id numbers" into the barcode and use a USB reader which acts like a keyboard.  So, when you scan a barcode it just types the patient's ID number and searches the patient. This doesn't require anything special in terms of OpenMRS. The problem is generating the bar codes, ideally it would be done as part of OpenMRS with a modle. Perhaps there is someone with more experience that can comment...

Tobin

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Agnalda da Graça <agna...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

Is anyone implementing a module for Bar Code reading? If yes, what are the version of OpenMRS that it´s being used and what are the other dependence modules (if any)

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[Rowan Seymour]

What Tobin is describing is what has been implemented in Rwanda, which you can read more about at

https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Rwanda+Primary+Care#RwandaPrimaryCare-Barcodescanner

https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Barcode+Printing

The barcode printers were Zebra printers which could take a type of EPL file which described a barcode. You can see an example of the barcode printing code at http://svn.openmrs.org/openmrs-modules/rwandaprimarycare/trunk/omod/src/main/webapp/barCode.jsp

The barcode scanners would scan the barcode and "paste" the resulting text. So you just had to click on the patient ID text field, scan the barcode, and the ID value would appear in the text field.

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[Dusabe Eric]

Hi,

May be David Thomas can provide you with more information with a module which generates barcode, but reading you don't need a Bar code Reading module, only the bard code Reader is enough, we are using one in Rwanda which is called Rwanda Primary care module.

Eric  

Dusabe Eric
EMR Developer (MOH)

[Agnalda da Graça]

Thaks guys

Can you provide me David Thomas ´s contact so that he can give me more info about that? I actlually installed the Rwanda Primary Care Module but I´m having some bugs that I don´t know how to fix it.

[Ben Wolfe]

There is also an idcards module to aid in printing those barcodes.

Ben

[Agnalda da Graça]

Thanks I´m trying the module

[Cosmin Ioan]

Here is how we print barcodes at couple hospitals in Haiti:

https://github.com/PIH/openmrs-module-patientregistration/blob/master/api/src/main/java/org/openmrs/module/patientregistration/service/PatientRegistrationServiceImpl.java#L481

 

Cosmin

[Agnalda da Graça]

Thanks Cosmin

Do you have the omdb file?

[Pascal Brandt]

Hi Agnalda,

All you have to do to build the .omod is run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/PIH/openmrs-module-patientregistration.git
cd openmrs-module-patientregistration
mvn clean install

Regards,

Pascal