Category Tips

Document Upload File Size Limit

The default size limit for uploading files into OSCAR is 100MB, but you can modify this in the struts-config.xml property is set in the following tag, and would need a tomcat restart to take effect: <controller processorClass=”org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor”> maxFileSize=”100M” />

OSCAR Lab Schema Tips

Here’s some info on how the hl7TextInfo, hl7_link, hl7_msh, hl7_obx, hl7_obr, hl7_pid, providerLabRouting, patientLabRouting tables and measurements relate in OSCAR. Lab comes in and writes to hl7TextMessage. I’ll call this hmessage The lab is “dissected” and inputted into: hl7TextInfo I’ll call this…

Preventions Customization and Adding Custom Preventions

Some advanced preventions customization tips from Peter Hutten-Czapski How can I group Preventions screening and Immunizations to show them as different groups? Just change the headingName in the definition in a custom   OSCAR look for your settings through the oscar.properties file with…

OCR incoming fax PDFs in OSCAR

You can use the open source Tesseract ocrmypdf BASH command to OCR PDF’s. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) makes PDFs searchable, i.e. incoming faxes/documents can be OCR’d to make finding information in PDFs easier. Take the fax pdf folder and OCR…

Physicians Lists in OSCAR

To make outgoing referrals (called Consultations) from OSCAR or to link a demographic to a referring physician and their billing number, the physician you are referring to/referencing needs to be in the specialists list so they can be selected. For…