OpenEMR Success Stories

Overview

This page is part of an ongoing project to list and describe successful deployments of OpenEMR. For more details on submitting entries, please see the Discussion page.

Disclaimer: This list will not represent the bulk of OpenEMR users because institutions don't have to make public which open source software they use. However, 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. For more information, including data citations, please see Adoption information.

Leading Academic Medical University (March 2017)

The Neurology IT department of a top Ivy League Academic Medical Center was challenged with the task of providing Continuous EEG monitoring of patients for their physicians. This solution would also need to integrate with existing medical systems. Dissatisfied with the available off the shelf product offerings, the department noted that a customizable solution was necessary to meet the requirements of the physicians and faculty.

With the help of ViSolve, the department deployed a customized OpenEMR solution to provide Continous EEG monitoring functionality and systems integration.

The open source nature of OpenEMR enables and encourages customizations to meet the specific needs of healthcare providers internationally. Users can deploy and customize OpenEMR to meet their needs, whether it be done independently with free community support or with one of many professional OpenEMR vendors.

Trincay Medical Center, Cayman Islands (August 2016)

Dr. Adamo and his group of 18 were using Amazing Charts and wanted to migrate to an "anywhere access" electronic medical records system.

Below is the list of what Trincay wwas looking for when considering a new system:

• A cloud-based EMR system
• An ICD-10 based system (Amazing Charts software used ICD-9, however, all Cayman Island insurers were soon moving to ICD-10)
• An integrated billing system, compatible with the insurance providers that Trincay works with
• Electronic prescriptions
• An ability to migrate Amazing Charts patients
• Assistance with general configuration, particularly for doctors charts/personalized consultation sheets and billing
• Integration of current CPT codes and customary fees provided for Cayman Islands (Excel files)
• Although not required, HIPAA compliance

With the help of Open Med Practice, Trincay Medical Center's needs were met by deploying OpenEMR in a secure cloud environment along with a migrated patient list of over 20,000 patients.

Hearing Clinic in Ontario (October 2012)

The following is a letter from Daniel Pfingstgraef, an employee of an Ontario-based Hearing Clinic. In this letter, he briefly describes his successful OpenEMR deployment.

Hello,

We have recently installed OpenEMR into a production environment. We run a Hearing Clinic with about 10 employees, and 5 offices spread out over a small geographical area in Ontario, Canada.

OpenEMR runs on a Ubuntu 12.04 Server.

I hope this is of some help to you!

Daniel Pfingstgraef

Clinic in the Bahamas (September 2012)

Samuel Strachan, the cousin of a provider who runs a local clinic, expresses his thanks for the quality of OpenEMR software that he set up for the facility.

Hello

I am in the Bahamas and have just set up OpenEMR for my cousin who is opening a new clinic.

I am very impressed with the software.

I will continue to evaluate and jot down any ideas that come to mind.

Thank you for a wonderful software package.

Samuel Strachan

citixens.com/openemr

J. Samuel Strachan

Team Lead, Systems Architecture and Administration

The CitiXens Team

242.427.2060 or 242.376.6567

http://citixens.com/helpdesk

Health Facility in Kenya (September 2012)

Dr. Joash Gombe, a healthcare provider in Kenya, updates the OpenEMR community of his successful deployment.

Good day,

This is to inform you that I have just installed OpenEMR. I run a small health facility in rural Kenya and I am hopeful that this software will enable us to offer more effective services, more efficiently given our meager resources

Kind regards,

Dr Joash Gombe

Southern Tier Plastic Surgery Associates, PC (June 2012)

Dr. Mark Anthony, a plastic surgeon in upstate New York writes to an OpenEMR contributor with thanks for the high quality and cost-effective EHR solution.

Dr Bowen:

I just wanted to let you know that my medical practice has just started using OpenEMR as our EHR system.

We are a two surgeon plastic surgery practice in upstate New York. Our patient database contains approximately 50,000 patients. We are using MI Squared for hosting and support.

I am a long time fan of the Linux operating system, and FOSS. I am glad that such a high-quality product exists for EHR implementation. Though we have just started using the system, we are quite happy with it, and I recommend it to my colleagues who are looking at EHR systems. Many of them have a hard time understanding that such a product is available for free, while other systems cost over $40,000! I tell them that for that much money, their EHR system should be delivered in a brand new BMW, that they get to keep!

Anyway, thanks again for all the work you have put into developing the system, and for its continuing development.

Sincerely,

Mark S. Anthony, MD, FACS

Southern Tier Plastic Surgery Associates, PC

Siaya District Hospital in Kenya (April 2012)

After six months of careful project planning and execution, the government-sponsored Siaya District Hospital in Kenya has deployed OpenEMR for its 240 bed hospital.

With the help of Medigrail, OpenEMR was deployed on a handful of Linux servers with modern networking, security, and backup systems in place. Over 40 workstation laptops equipped with access to OpenEMR as well as other common office utilities were provided to the hospital staff. One notable challenge with this deployment was providing stable electrical power to ensure said systems were online, which the team was able to achieve.

Because the hospital workers had little training in the use of computer technology, an extensive “Train the Trainers” effort was initiated. The trainers then engaged the local hospital staff, helping to set realistic user expectations, and teaching them the basics on how to begin using the system.

With over 120,000 patient encounters at the time of this writing, the use of new computer technology and OpenEMR play a crucial role in the capabilities and expansion of this healthcare facility.