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OpenEMR
Stable release
2.9.0 / March 15, 2009
Repository
Operating systemAny Unix-like, Mac OS, Windows[1]
PlatformCross-platform[1]
TypeOpen source, Practice management, Electronic Medical Records system
LicenseGNU General Public License[2]
WebsiteOpenEMR web site


OpenEMR is an Open source, Practice management, Electronic Medical Records, prescription writing, e-prescribing, and medical billing application.

It is an open attempt to serve as a replacement for medical applications such as Medical Manager, and Health Pro. It features support for EDI billing to clearing houses such as Medavant and ZirMED using ANSI X12. Medical claim and accounts receivable are accomplished within the sofware thanks to recent work by the community's main developer. There is no longer the need to use SQL Ledger. Calendar features include categories for appointment types, colors associated with appointment types, repeating appointments, and the ability to restrict appointments based on type. There is an advanced medical claim management interface, accounting for EOB entry, customization to work with a clearing house for automated 835 or ERA entry against outstanding medical claims, customizable medical encounter forms, support for voice recognition software, and electronic digital document management for records.

History

OpenEMR was originally developed by Synitech and version 1.0 was released in June 2001 as MP Pro (MedicalPractice Professional). Much of the code was then reworked for HIPAA compliance and improved security, and the product was reintroduced as OpenEMR version 1.3 a year later, in June 2002.

The project, now open source, evolved through version 2.0 and the Pennington Firm (Pennfirm) took over as its primary maintainer in January 2004.

Pennfirm made the medical community more aware of OpenEMR, and attracted a number of independent developers who became increasingly active in making improvements (Sunset Systems was the most prolific of these). Walt Pennington transferred the OpenEMR software repository to SourceForge in March 2005, where it remains today. Mr. Pennington also established Rod Roark, Andres Paglayan and James Perry, Jr. as administrators of the project. By consensus of the project leaders the SourceForge OpenEMR home web page is maintained at oemr.org.

The OpenEMR maintained at SourceForge is one of the "LAMP" type of web based software applications that uses a web server such as Apache, MySQL as the database and PHP as its programming language. As with most "LAMP" architecture makes OpenEMR easy to port to all Linux, Unix and BSD architectures. In addition OpenEMR runs on several versions of Microsoft Windows.

The OpenEMR at SourceForge project is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2). The OpenEMR community at SourceForge is active and growing.

After the transfer of the OpenEMR project and OpenEMR community to SourceForge, Walt Pennington transferred his interest in the web page openemr.net and his copy of the software repository to the Possibility Forge.

The Possibility Forge gained the PennFirm version of OpenEMR from The Pennington Firm. They continue to use the OpenEMR name though with a different capitalization scheme. Development on this second project was continued through a partnership between Possibility Forge and ITD Medical: ITD Unlimited. At the end of 2007, The Possibility Forge, Inc. subsequently acquired all intellectual property from ITD Unlimited. The Possibility Forge maintains a separate version and in the open source world is referred to as a "fork".

In response to growing demands for an e-prescribing solution, Phyaura, LLC donated code to the OpenEMR community in late 2008 that allows users to generate an electronic prescription and process renewals securely online. PHYAURA's e-prescribing solution is NCPDP complaint and is SureScripts certified. Currently the service is linked via a single sign-on function. Future plans includes full integration of this solution with OpenEMR eliminating the need for the community to maintain drug to drug and drug to allergy interaction databases.

References

  1. ^ a b "SQL-Ledger ERP". Retrieved 2007-05-07.
  2. ^ "Terms & Conditions". Retrieved 2007-05-07.
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