OpenEMR
OpenEMR is a Free and Open Source electronic health records and medical practice management application. It is ONC 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:
- Freely available
- Free to download, use, modify, and upgrade
- Free documentation
- Free support forum
- Open source
- Released under the GNU General Public License
- OpenEMR 7.0.0 is ONC 2015 Cures Update Certified! More details on how the OpenEMR community completed this feat can be found here on our blog article. The ONC 2015 Certification Transparency and Disclosure Requirements for OpenEMR can be viewed here. Additional costs may apply and the additional costs disclosure can be viewed here. For requirements that OpenEMR users need to follow to ensure certification can be found at ONC 2015 Certification Requirements.
Our clearinghouse has a custom built module to integrate with OpenEMR where we update and support the module.
- 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
- Patient Flow Board, Tracking, and Reporting
- Supports multiple facilities
- Patient appointment notification via email and sms
- Recall (reminders) Board
- 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
- Random Patient Drug Screening
- Modern User Interface
- Scheduling and Appointments
- Secure Messaging and Chat
- Online Payments
- Send Records via Direct Messaging
- Customized Forms
- New Patient Registration
- CCDA Support
- Reports
- Labs
- Medical Problems
- Medications
- Allergies
- Appointments
- Secure API that Supports Third Party Patient Portals
- Flexible system of coding including CPT, HCPCS, ICD9, ICD10 and SNOMED codes, and the ability to add others
- Support for 5010 standards
- Support for Institutional Billing Standards (UB-04)
- Support for paper claims
- Medical claim management interface
- Insurance Eligibility Queries
- Insurance Tracking Interface
- Accounts Receivable Interface
- EOB Entry Interface
- 835 or ERA entry
- Interoperability
- CCDA
- FHIR support for ONC US Core IG 4.0.0 (SMART on FHIR is included)
- Encounters
- Medical Issues
- Medications
- Immunizations
- Forms and clinical notes:
- Vitals (growth charts included)
- SOAP note
- Review of systems
- Eye (Ophthalmology/Optometry) Module
- Template Driven Forms
- CAMOS (Computer Aided Medical Ordering System)
- Nation Notes (WYSIWYG editor)
- Ability to create and customize forms
- Group Therapy
- 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
- Clinic Messaging
- Send and Receive Medical Records via Direct Messaging
- Dated Reminders
- Medical Image Viewer (DICOM)
- Online drug search
- Track patient prescriptions and medications
- Create and send prescriptions
- E-Prescribe
- Fax
- Customizable layout including options for DEA, NPI and state license numbers.
- In-house pharmacy dispensary support
- Physician Reminders
- Patient Reminders
- Clinical Quality Measure Calculations
- Automated Meaningful Use Measurement Calculations
- Fully Customizable and Flexible
- 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
- Support for Role Based Menus and Custom Menus
- Ability to Encrypt Patient Documents
- Supports fine-grained per-user access controls
- Active Directory Support
- Database Connection Encryption Support
- Remotely accessible from any modern web browser with a suitable security certificate installed
- Dedicated to guarding OpenEMR’s status as a free, open source software solution for medical practices.
- 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 174 developers/companies have contributed code to OpenEMR.
- OpenEMR codebase is openly improved on a daily basis.
- Community Website
- Community Wiki
- Community Forum
- Community Chat
- Community Twitter Feed
- Community Facebook Page
- Community LinkedIn Group
- Community Reddit Group
- Community Mastodon Page
- Community Diaspora Page
- Community OpenEMR Demo