OpenEMR Features
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OpenEMR Features
OpenEMR is a Free and Open Source electronic health records and medical practice management application. It is ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR Certified and it features fully integrated electronic health records, practice management, scheduling, electronic billing, internationalization, free support, a vibrant community, and a whole lot more. It can run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and many other platforms. Features supported are listed below:
Free
- Freely available
- Free to download, use, modify, and upgrade
- Free documentation
- Free support forum
- Open source
- Released under the GNU General Public License
ONC Certified
Patient Demographics
- Track patient demographics
- Primary information (name, date of birth, sex, identification)
- Marital status
- Contact information of patient and patient's employer
- Primary provider
- HIPAA information
- Language and ethnicity
- Insurance coverage
- Deceased Tracking
- Fully Customizable
- Track patient demographics
Patient Scheduling
- Supports multiple facilities
- Patient appointment notification via email and sms
- Compact and flexible appointment calendar
- Calendar features include:
- Find open appointment slots
- Categories for appointment types
- Colors associated with appointment types and facility
- Repeating appointments
- Restricting appointments based on type
Electronic Medical Records
- Encounters
- Medical Issues
- Medications
- Immunizations
- Forms and clinical notes:
- Vitals (growth charts included)
- SOAP note
- Review of systems
- Template Driven Forms
- CAMOS (Computer Aided Medical Ordering System)
- Nation Notes (WYSIWYG editor)
- Ability to create and customize forms
- Graphical Charting
- Labs
- Procedures
- Patient Reports
- Referrals
- Patient Notes
- Disclosures
- Electronic digital document management
- Voice recognition ready (MS Windows Operating Systems)
- Paper chart tracking
- Electronic Syndrome Surveillance reporting
Prescriptions
- Online drug search
- Track patient prescriptions and medications
- Create and send prescriptions
- E-Prescribe
- Fax
- In-house pharmacy dispensary support
Medical Billing
- Flexible system of coding including CPT, HCPCS and ICD codes and the ability to add others
- Support for electronic billing to clearing houses such as Medavant/Capario and ZirMED using ANSI X12
- Support for paper claims
- Medical claim management interface
- Insurance Eligibility Queries
- Insurance Tracking Interface
- Accounts Receivable Interface
- EOB Entry Interface
- Customizable to work with a clearing house for automated 835 or ERA entry
Clinical Decision Rules
- Physician Reminders
- Patient Reminders
- Clinical Quality Measure Calculations
- Automated Meaningful Use Measurement Calculations
- Fully Customizable and Flexible
Patient Portal
- Reports
- Labs
- Medical Problems
- Medications
- Allergies
- Appointments
- Secure API that Supports Third Party Patient Portals
Reports
- Appointments
- Patient Lists
- Prescriptions and Drug Dispensing
- Referrals
- Immunizations
- Clinical Measure Calculations
- Clinical Quality Measures (CQM) Calculations
- Automated Measure Calculations (AMC) and Tracking
- Syndromic Surveillance
- Pending Procedure Orders
- Ordered Procedure Statistics
- Paper Chart Tracking
- Sales
- Collections
- Insurance Distributions
- Insurance Eligibility
Multilanguage Support
- Supports use of multiple languages within the same clinic
- Currently Supported Languages:
- English (American)
- English (Indian)
- Danish
- Dutch
- French
- Greek
- Portuguese (Brazilian)
- Portuguese (European)
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Any language can be added and translated in a Collaborative Google Docs Spreadsheet maintained by the OpenEMR community
- Fully supports UTF-8 encoding
Security
- Ability to Encrypt Patient Documents
- Supports fine-grained per-user access controls
- Remotely accessible from any modern web browser with a suitable security certificate installed
Support
Community
- Is dedicated to guarding OpenEMR's status as a free, open source software solution for medical practices.
- Is thriving and enjoying some of the broadest user support and developer support.
- OpenEMR is the most popular free electronic medical records in use today with over 4,000 downloads per month.
- More than 50 developers/companies have contributed code to OpenEMR, and OpenEMR is openly improved on a daily basis.
- Community Website
- Community Wiki
- Community Forum
