What is OpenEMR?

OpenEMR is the most popular open source electronic health records and medical practice management solution. It is maintained by a vibrant community of volunteers and support professionals. The system is a Complete EHR, downloaded more than 5,000 times per month, and has an estimated usage by 100,000 medical providers across many borders and languages. As a leader in open-source healthcare software, OpenEMR provides an unparallelled and fully customizable experience for your healthcare facility.

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. 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. The Peace Corps plan to incorporate OpenEMR into their EHR system. Siaya District Hospital, a 220-bed hospital in rural Kenya, is using OpenEMR. HP India is planning to utilize OpenEMR for their Mobile Health Centre Project. There are also articles describing single clinician deployments and a free clinic deployment. Internationally, it is known that there are practitioners in Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Israel, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Indonesia, Bermuda, Armenia, Kenya, and Greece that are either testing or actively using OpenEMR for use as a free electronic medical records program in the respective languages.

Rod Roark, a programmer; Dr. Brady Miller; Robert Down, BSN, RN; Jerry Padgett, engineer and programmer; and Stephen Waite are the project’s administrators. Everything is here: https://www.open-emr.org/

Recent Successes

The Future

Core Roadmap Projects:

  • Affordable Medical Devices ConnectivityAffordable and high ­quality hardware to provide low resource users data­centric medical devices.
  • Units SupportSupport for hospitalized patient management.
  • Team Tasks ManagementReal time, team­centric care module.
  • Advanced BillingUB04 and modern billing capabilities out of the box.
  • Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) IntegrationJSON­ based healthcare schema that is the future of healthcare data modeling.
  • Modern Cloud SolutionsOngoing support and development of OpenEMR Cloud.
  • Quality ReportingAbility to export more actionable and comprehensive medical reports.
  • Realistic Test Data GenerationLife­like fake seed data for demos, academic use cases, and QA.
  • Clinical Intelligence DashboardsBig data analytics platform for better understanding a patient population and trends.
  • Intelligent Chart SummarizationUser-friendly clinical natural language processing to transform plain text into structured medical data.
  • Normalized Code Directory StructureLegacy code organization overhaul.
  • Separation of Business Logic CodeLegacy code refactor overhaul.
  • Module FrameworkLegacy architecture overhaul.
  • Frontend User Interface ReworkModern UI frameworks and best practices to improve user experiences.
  • Telemedicine SupportPatient video encounters support.
  • Speech Dictation DocumentationEasy to use documentation to configure speech dictation support.
  • Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)Game changing radiology integration and viewing technology.
  • Medical Administration RecordElectronic module to improve patient system and streamline clinical documentation processes.
  • Remote Patient Vitals ModuleLow resource solution to remotely monitor patient vitals via SMS on an interval basis.

People to meet

  • Dr. Brady MillerChief Executive Officer (Executive Director)
  • Stephen WaiteChief Financial Officer
  • Dr. Andre MilletChief Medical Officer
  • Matthew VitaChief Technology Officer
  • Robert Down, BSN, RNChief Information Officer
  • Asher Densmore-LynnCloud Engineer
  • Daniel EhrlichCloud Engineer
  • Jason OettingerSoftware Engineer
  • Joyce Boyd, DNP, NPEducator, Nurse practitioner
  • Dani SUser Experience
  • Roberto VasquezEngineer
  • Jerry PadgettEngineer
  • Daniel EhrlichCloud Engineer
  • Sherwin GaddisVendor
  • Sena PalanisamiVendor
  • Jit ChawlVendor
  • Lou GalterioVendor

Vendors

https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Professional_Support

What is OEMR

OEMR is a non-profit organization formed to ensure that all people, regardless of race, socioeconomic status or geographic location, have access to high-quality medical care through the donation of free, open source medical software and service relating to that software. OEMR has an open policy for membership and accepts donations. OEMR supports the OpenEMR project and uses OpenEMR software as an instrument to effect its goals.http://www.oemr.org/. Maybe check out the past few meetings here: https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OEMR_wiki_page#Meetings (recorded)

Learning Videos/Resources

  • How to guides: https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_5.0.0_Users_Guide
  • Old version of software, but still a great playlist

Communications

  • Forums and support: https://community.open-emr.org/
  • Chat and support: https://www.open-emr.org/chat
  • Code repository: https://github.com/openemr (project mgmt. happens here as well)
  • Please join the Saturday calls, you can read about the latest ones here: https://community.open-emr.org/t/weekly-conference-call
  • We use email a lot too