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OSCAR Roadmap

Updated: Oct 26, 2009

 

The OSCAR Roadmap strategy is to target two formal releases each year - typically in April and October. We've adopted a new numbering strategy consistent with other significant open source projects, specifically following the format Year.Month. The next release will be version 9.10.

Source code will continue to be available for interim and development releases.

OSCAR is based on a community based development model. Current contributors to the OSCAR project include:
- Large institutions (e.g. McMaster, McGill & City of Toronto)
- Independent companies (e.g. OSCAR support companies)
- User Groups (e.g. OSCAR Canada Users Society)
- Independent clinics and individual doctors

We encourage all users and organizations that are working on significant new features to inform us of what they are doing so that we can support and publicize their efforts.

Whenever possible, our intention is to be transparent about what features are currently committed (ie funded and scheduled), and which are currently planned (ie prioritized, but funding/scheduling is still being organized).


Fall Release - October, 2009 - OSCAR v9.10 (planned, unless noted otherwise)

  • (committed) Billing subsystem improvements and extensions, including BC specific improvements, multi-jurisdictional support allowing easier regional localisations
  • (committed) Reworked INR flow sheet
  • (committed) Java implementation of drugref
  • (committed) MyOSCAR interface to add account, send lab results, and MyOSCAR messaging
  • (committed) MyDrugRef interface for Practice Tips (renamed from Guidelines)
  • (committed) Tagging of scanned documents in progress notes
  • (in progress - on target) Prescription subsystem improvements (workflow and functionality)
  • (in progress -on target) Improvements to the allergy module (improved interactions)
  • (in progress - maybe delayed) Document handling and workflow routing enhancements, including scans delivered to inbox, improved document tagging
  • (concept defined) Users defined Issue Diagnostic Table
  • (concept defined) Automatic billing on prevention items
  • (in progress) Code maintenance, UI cleanup, improved documentation

 

Spring Release - June, 2009 - OSCAR v9.06 (committed in June 2009)

  • OntarioMD CMS Spec v3.0 conformance, including improved data portability, chronic disease management, and diabetes reporting
  • French OSCAR & improved internationalization
  • OSCAR Measurements extensions to enable easier end user customization
  • Improvements to the encounter page (additional CPP input boxes)
  • Customizable CDM flow sheets and new CDM flow sheets for other diseases
  • ICL lab interface
  • support for OntarioMD web portal
  • enhanced support for MyOSCAR, including
    • create patient myoscar account from the demographic screen
    • direct pasting of the myoscar message into eChart roll
  • enhanced support for MyDrugRef, including
    • display/hide MyDrugRef messages while prescribing
    • show how many untrusted postings

 

OSCAR Roadmap (Prior)

by Tomislav Svoboda — last modified 2008-02-04 11:30
 
  1. OSCAR overall Vision
  2. Products
  3. Feature Roadmap
  4. Technical Roadmap
  5. Community Development Roadmap
  6. Deployment Roadmap

 

Products

 

MyOSCAR

- personally controlled health record. This is a separate product that integrates into OSCAR EMR

 

MyDrugRef

- Ruby on Rail Project for social networking between clinicians who prescribe.

 

OSCAR EMR

OSCAR Resource

CAISI (Client Access to Integrated Services and Information)

(CAISI, QuatroShelter etc.)


Community Roadmap 

  1. Monthly meetings of developers
  2. Users meetings
  3. Annual Users conference
  4. User Participation in mailing lists
  5. Develop business model to support small and large purchases of features that follow OSCAR standards

 

Feature roadmap

 

 CAISI

  1. Integrator Functionality
    1. Common Client Index
    2. Multi-installation - Integrated Program Referral
    3. Multi-installation - Issues / progress note viewing
  2. Ministry DATIS data export
  3. Bed Management (removing from bed without program discharge, switching of beds and room assignment)
  4. Intake editor functions (basic editor, link to other database elements, triggers) Intake Management

 

OSCAR EMR

  1. integration of CAISI Case Management into EMR UI - done (Spring 2008) (OSCAR McMaster Group)
  2. Conformance testing version 2.0 - done (Spring 2008) (OSCAR McMaster Group)
  3. Lab compliance to OLIS (Ontario Lab Information System) - waiting for OLIS (OSCAR McMaster Group)
  4. Increased integration with MyDrugRef and MyOSCAR done (Spring 2008) (OSCAR McMaster Group)
  5. INR Manager (First version released Spring 2008) (OSCAR McMaster Group)
  6. WCB Billing (OSCAR McMaster Group)
  7. Antenatal Care (BC Group) (done Spring 2008) Improvements to Prescription Program (in progress)
  8. streamlining of e-chart (e.g. automatic additions to progress note everytime there is a change in EMR e.g. addition a document or prescription)(OSCAR McMaster Group)
  9. all HL7 documents for Hamilton Sciences (e.g. all discharge summaries from hospitals can be downloaded on a daily basis) (OSCAR McMaster Group)
  10. Lab inbox will become a generic inbox for all HL7 documents (OSCAR McMaster Group)
  11. workflow management of HL7 documents (OSCAR McMaster Group)
  12. Improvements to Prescription Program (in progress)
  13. Prescription module: OSCAR EMR Drug Ref - making changes so that only generic drug can be displayed (OSCAR Service)
  14. Prescription module: allow multiple dispensing regimens, additions to drop boxes (e.g. tapering regimen) (OSCAR Service)
  15. Translation of OSCAR EMR into French (OSCAR McMaster Group)

 

MyDrugRef

  1. Submitted for RCT to evaluate effectiveness
  2. Clean up interface

 

MyOSCAR

  1. Improve Performance - through keeping up with version 4.0 of IndivoHealth at MIT (awaiting version 4.0 release)
  2. Rewrite from PHP to JAVA to improve performance (in progress)
 

 

Technical Roadmap

 

  1. Multi-database support (MySQL, Oracle, PostgressSQL) (in progress, ORACLE done at bed management and case management, still to do for EMR)
  2. Common Security Framework - done (Quatro Group)
  3. Coding Standards (Foreign key constraints, common naming etc.)
  4. Functioning Distributed Development Environment (common bugtracker, common documentation environment)
  5. Unified and consistent GUI (colours and style)
  6. Consistent menuing done (Quatro Group)
  7. Consistent Admin section (LDAP)
  8. HL7 compliance

 

Deployment Roadmap

CAISI
  1. All City of Toronto Shelters (n=65)
  2. Additional agencies
    1. Margaret Frazer House
    2. COPA
    3. Parc Heat Registry program
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