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OpenEMR
OpenEMR logo.jpg
Developer(s) OpenEMR Developer Team
Initial release June 14, 2001 (2001-06-14)[1]
Stable release

7.0.2  (November 16, 2023; 12 months ago (2023-11-16))

[±]
Preview release none [±]
Written in PHP
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in 15+ languages
Type Health informatics software
License(s) GNU General Public License v3.0
Website open-emr.org

OpenEMR is free open-source electronic health record and medical practice management software that features ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR certification and a robust development community.[2]

Product history

OpenEMR has its roots in two older pieces of software: MedicalPractice Professional and MedicalPractice Gateway, developed by Synitech Incorporated in 2001.[1][3] On June 29, 2002, the software was renamed to OpenEMR with version 1.3.0, and that same year development responsibility shifted to the Pennington Firm in San Diego.[1] On March 5, 2005, version 2.7.0 was released, and with it came a shift of the source code to SourceForge.[4][1]

Version Release date
4.1.1 31 August 2012[5]
4.1.0 25 September 2011[5]
4.0.0 26 March 2011[5]
3.2.0 16 February 2010[5]
3.1.0 29 August 2009[5]
3.0.1 08 April 2009[5]
3.0.0 15 March 2009[5]
2.9.0 07 August 2008[5]
2.8.3 05 October 2007[5]
2.8.2 14 January 2007[5]
2.8.1 24 February 2006[5]
2.8.0 11 November 2005[6]
2.7.2 01 June 2005[5]
2.7.0 05 March 2005[4]
Version Release date
2.6.5 09 September 2004[4]
2.6.0 07 June 2004[7]
2.5.3 17 May 2004[7]
2.5.2 25 March 2004[7]
2.5.0 16 March 2004[7]
2.2.1 03 February 2004[7]
2.0.0 30 June 2003[8]
1.7.0 01 September 2002[1]
1.3.0 29 June 2002 (as OpenEMR)[1]
1.2.0 25 August 2001[1]
1.1.0 20 July 2001[1]
1.0.0 14 June 2001
(as MedicalPractice Professional)[1]

Awards and recognition

In 2012, OpenEMR won InfoWorld's Bossie Award, recognition for being a top open-source business application.[9] Today open-source directory Ohloh considers OpenEMR to be "one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and is in the top 2% of all project teams on Ohloh."[10]

Features

Features of OpenEMR include[11]:

  • ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR Certified
  • patient management
  • scheduling
  • extensive electronic medical record (EMR) functionality
  • document management
  • prescription management
  • billing
  • reminders and alerts
  • patient portal
  • extensive reporting
  • user-based security
  • multi-language support

Hardware/software requirements

Installation requirements will vary based on operating system. Please refer to the installation guide for the desired version you wish to install.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

Training resources

Click2eLearn

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Click2eLearn is a privately owned company offering high-quality and low-cost web-based training and tutorials for primarily open-source software platforms. The company offers over 40 tutorials on the open-source EHR and medical practice management application OpenEMR. Training plans begin at $35 per month.

Tutorials are broken down into nine categories:

  1. Miscellaneous - This section contains four free tutorials that demonstrate some of the basic operational possibilities of OpenEMR.
  2. Getting Started: Overview - These related tutorials focus on the architecture of OpenEMR, including the home page and log-in interfaces.
  3. Operations: Clinic Setup - The tutorials in this section cover how to set up the demographics and users of a clinic.
  4. Operations: Patient Management - These tutorials heavily focus on entering and modifying patient data in OpenEMR.
  5. Operations: Appointments - These related tutorials focus on how to set up schedules and appointments in OpenEMR.
  6. Operations: Encounters and Issues - These tutorials explain how to add encounters, issues, and immunization history in OpenEMR.
  7. Operations: Reporting - These tutorials cover the various report types available in OpenEMR.
  8. Administration: Accounting - he tutorials in this section cover how to administrate the billing of claims and the posting of benefits and payments.
  9. Setup: Installation and Upgrades - This section contains tutorials concerning how to install OpenEMR in either a Linux or Windows environment.

Entities using OpenEMR

Further reading



External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 "OpenEMR Version History File". Bitbucket. https://bitbucket.org/openemr/openemr/src/c0e81621fcbb/Documentation/HISTORY.txt. Retrieved 16 October 2012. 
  2. ↑ "OpenEMR Project". OpenEMR Project. http://open-emr.org/. Retrieved 16 October 2012. 
  3. ↑ Donahue, Margaret (16 February 2006). "The OpenEMR Community". OEMR. http://www.openmedsoftware.org/wiki/The_OpenEMR_Community. Retrieved 16 October 2012. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "All releases of OpenEMR - Page 1". Freecode. http://freecode.com/projects/openemr/releases?page=1. Retrieved 16 October 2012. 
  5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 "OpenEMR Current > Files". SourceForge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/openemr/files/OpenEMR%20Current/. Retrieved 16 October 2012. 
  6. ↑ Roark, Rod (11 November 2005). "OpenEMR 2.8.0 Released". LinuxMedNews. http://linuxmednews.com/1131747101/. Retrieved 16 October 2012. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 "All releases of OpenEMR - Page 2". Freecode. http://freecode.com/projects/openemr/releases?page=2. Retrieved 16 October 2012. 
  8. ↑ Stack, Matthew (30 June 2003). "OpenEMR 2.0.0 Release". LinuxMedNews. http://linuxmednews.com/1056951841/index_html. Retrieved 16 October 2012. 
  9. ↑ "Bossie Awards 2012: The best open source applications". InfoWorld. 18 September 2012. http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/65165/bossie-awards-2012-the-best-open-source-applications-202530#slide21. Retrieved 16 October 2012. 
  10. ↑ "OpenEMR : Project Summary : Factoids". Ohloh. http://www.ohloh.net/p/openemr/factoids. Retrieved 16 October 2012. 
  11. ↑ "OpenEMR Features". OpenEMR Project. 5 October 2011. http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Features. Retrieved 16 October 2012. 
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