OpenEMR

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OpenEMR

Screenshot of the Patient Summary Screen

Stable release 4.2.2

/ May 19, 2016; 3 months ago

Operating system Linux, Unix-like, OS X, Windows

Type Medical practice management software, Electronic Medical

Records

License GNU General Public License

Website www.open-emr.org

OpenEMR[1] is a medical practice management software which also supports Electronic Medical Records (EMR). It
is ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR certified[2][3][4] and it features fully integrated electronic medical records, practice
management for a medical practice, scheduling, and electronic billing.
The server side is written in PHP and can be employed in conjunction with a LAMP "stack", though any operating
system with PHP support is supported.
OpenEMR is free and open-source software subject to the terms of theGNU General Public License (GPL).
OpenEMR is subject to ongoing efforts of internationalization and localization in multiple languages, and there is free
support available in various forums over the world. At the time of writing, commercial support is offered by more than
30 vendors in more than 10 countries.[5]
OpenEMR is one of the most popular free electronic medical records in use today with over 3,700 downloads per
month.[6]

Contents
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  1Features[7]
 2Adoption
 3Awards
 4Development
o 4.1OEMR
o 4.2Certification
 5History
o 5.1Releases
 6References
 7External links

Features[7][edit]

 ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR Certified

 Patient Demographics
 Patient Scheduling
 Electronic Medical Records
 Prescriptions
 Medical Billing
 Clinical Decision Rules
 Patient Portal
 Reports
 Advantages and benefits of free and open-source software
 Security
 Multilanguage Support
 Free Support

Adoption[edit]
The market share of a software can be estimated based on sales numbers, but since most free and open-source
software is not sold but installed via the package management system of the Linux distribution of choice, the term
"installed base" seems rather popular. It is very difficult to estimate the number of practitioners that are using this
software.
In the US, it has been estimated that there are more than 5,000 installations of OpenEMR in physician offices and
other small healthcare facilities serving more than 30 million patients. [8] Internationally, it has been estimated that
OpenEMR is installed in over 15,000 healthcare facilities, translating into more than 45,000 practitioners using the
system which are serving greater than 90 million patients.[8] The Peace Corps plan to incorporate OpenEMR into their
EHR system.[9][10][11][12][13] Siaya District Hospital, a 220-bed hospital in rural Kenya, is using OpenEMR. [14][15][16][17][18] HP
India is planning to utilize OpenEMR for their Mobile Health Centre Project. [19] There are also articles describing single
clinician deployments[20][21][22] and a free clinic deployment.[23] Internationally, it is known that there are practitioners in
Pakistan,[24]Puerto Rico, Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Israel, India, [19][25] Malaysia, Nepal, Indonesia, Bermuda,
Armenia, Kenya,[14][15][16][17][18][26] and Greece that are either testing or actively using OpenEMR for use as a free electronic
medical records program in the respective languages.[27]

Awards[edit]
OpenEMR has received a Bossie Award in the "The Best Open Source Applications" category in both 2012 and
2013.[28][29][30]

Development[edit]
The official OpenEMR code repository was migrated from CVS to git on 20 October 2010.[31] As of early 2016, the
project's main code repository is on Sourceforge.[32] There are also official mirrored code repositories on Github,
[33]
Google Code,[34]Gitorious,[35] Bitbucket,[36] Assembla,[37] CodePlex[38] and Repo.or.cz.[39]
OpenEMR has a vibrant open-source development community with over 98 developers having contributed to the
project.[40][41] There are 205 developers with personal OpenEMR code repositories on Github. [33] Open Hub (formerly
Ohloh) says OpenEMR has "a relatively large team, in the top 10% of all project teams on Open Hub". [41]

OEMR[edit]
OEMR[42] is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt entity that was organized in July, 2010 to support the OpenEMR project. [43] OEMR
is the entity that holds the ONC EHR Certifications with ICSA and InfoGard Labs. [3][44][45]

Certification[edit]
OpenEMR versions 4.1.0 (released on 9/23/2011), 4.1.1 (released on 8/31/2012) and 4.1.2 (released on 8/17/2013)
have 2011 ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR Certification by ICSA Labs. [44][2][3][4][46]
OpenEMR version 4.2.0 (released 12/28/2014), 4.2.1 (released 3/25/2016) and 4.2.2 (released on 5/19/2016) has
2014 ONC Modular Ambulatory EHR Certification by InfoGard Laboratories. [45][47][48][49]
The OEMR[42] organization is a non-profit entity that manages/provides the ONC certifications. [3]

History[edit]
OpenEMR was originally developed by Synitech and version 1.0 was released in June 2001 as MP Pro
(MedicalPractice Professional).[50] Much of the code was then reworked to comply with the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act(HIPAA) and to improve security, and the product was reintroduced as OpenEMR
version 1.3 a year later, in July 2002.[51]On 13 August 2002 OpenEMR was released to the public under the GNU
General Public License (GPL), i.e. it became a free and open-source project and was registered on SourceForge.
[52]
The project evolved through version 2.0 and the Pennington Firm (Pennfirm) took over as its primary maintainer in
2003.[50] Walt Pennington transferred the OpenEMR software repository to SourceForge in March 2005, where it
remains today.[53] Mr. Pennington also established Rod Roark, Andres Paglayan and James Perry, Jr. as
administrators of the project.[50] Walt Pennington, Andres Paglayan and James Perry eventually took other directions
and were replaced by Brady Miller in August 2009.[54] So at this time Rod Roark and Brady Miller are the project's co-
administrators.[54]

Releases[edit]

Release
Version Medical Software
Date

1.0 June, 2001 Released as MP Pro (MedicalPractice Professional)[50]

1.3 July 5, 2002 HIPAA compliance[51] Released as OpenEMR under GPL[51]

June 30,
2.0.0 [55]

2003

March 25,
2.5.2 Support for Health Level 7(HL7)[56]
2004

2.7.2 June 1, 2005 Calendar overhaul, added access controls,[57] code

 moved toSourceForge[53]

November
2.8.0 Support for UB-92[58]
11, 2005

February 24,
2.8.1 Language translation support[59]
2006

January 14, Computer Aided Medical Ordering

2.8.2 PHP5/MySQL5 Compatible[61]
2007 System (CAMOS) module[60]

October 4,
2.8.3 Support for HCFA 1500[62]
2007

August 7,
2.9.0 Customizable layouts[62]
2008

Fully integrated phpGACL (PHP Generic Access

April 8,
3.0.1 Control Lists),[62] internationalization and
2009
localization efforts started[63]

August 28,
3.1.0 Full support for UTF-8[64]
2009

February 16,
3.2.0 Layout based form builder module[65]
2010

March 26, 2011 ONC Modular Ambulatory EHR

4.0.0 Code repository changed from cvs to git[31]
2011 certification[66]

September 2011 ONC Complete Ambulatory

4.1.0
23, 2011 EHR certification[67]

August 31,
4.1.1 Support for ICD-10 translated into 19 languages[46]
2012

4.1.2 August 17, Interoperability[68]

 2013

December 2014 ONC Modular Ambulatory EHR

4.2.0 translated into 26 languages[47]
28, 2014 Certification[47]

March 25, 2014 ONC Modular Ambulatory EHR

4.2.1 translated into 30 languages[48]
2016 Certification[48]

May 19, 2014 ONC Modular Ambulatory EHR

4.2.2 PHP7 Compatible[49]
2016 Certification[49]

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