Updated: June 28, 2010

The OSCAR Roadmap strategy is to target two formal releases each year - typically in June and December (previously April and October to coincide with ubuntu releases but we were always late;). We've adopted a numbering strategy consistent with other significant open source projects, specifically following the format Year.Month. The next release will be version 10.06.

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 organisations that are working on significant new features to inform us of what they are doing so that we can support and publicise their efforts.

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

Spring Release - June, 2010 - OSCAR v10.06 (planned, unless noted otherwise)

• (Committed) Rx3 - Prescription subsystem improvements (workflow and functionality)
• (Committed) Improvements to the allergy module (improved interactions)
• (Committed) INBOX Management - Document handling and workflow routing enhancements, including scans delivered to inbox, improved document tagging
• (Committed) eReferral system - ability to send messages and documents between OSCAR systems
• (Committed) Hospital integration (Ontario and BC specific):

• ClinicalConnect Hospital record download
• IHA for Interior Health Database, British Columbia

• (Committed) Enhanced eForm management:
• eForm generator
  
• eForm emporium for sharing of eForms
• Rich text editor
  
• (Committed) Data Integrator interface in OSCAR Admin (previously it can only be accessed in CAISI mode)
  
• Official new Plone site for User's Manual: http://new.oscarmanual.org
  
• (concept defined) Users defined Issue Diagnostic Table
• (in progress) Automatic billing on prevention items
• (in progress) Training stimulator mode for OSCAR/CAISI
  
• (in progress) Mobile interface for OSCAR
• (in progress) Support for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring for MyDrugRef
  
• (in progress) Support for MyOSCAR appointment booking
  
• (in progress) Code maintenance, UI cleanup, improved documentation

Fall Release - December, 2009 - OSCAR v9.12 (committed end of December, 2009)

• Billing subsystem improvements and extensions, including BC specific improvements, multi-jurisdictional support allowing easier regional localisations
  
• Reworked INR flow sheet
• Java implementation of drugref
• MyOSCAR interface to add account, send lab results, and MyOSCAR messaging
• MyDrugRef interface for Practice Tips (renamed from Guidelines)
• Tagging of scanned documents in progress notes

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 (Document last updated Feb 2008)