OpenEMR

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• ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR Certified
• Patient Demographics
• Patient Scheduling
• Electronic Medical Records
• Prescriptions
• ePrescribing -requires OpenEMR specific integration by a third party such as what is provided by: WENO Exchange, NewCrop, and Allscripts
• EPCS (ePrescribe controlled substances) - requires OpenEMR specific integration provided by a third party such as what is provided by WENO Exchange, NewCrop, and Allscripts
• Medical Billing
• Clinical Decision Rules
• Patient Portal
• Reports
• Advantages and benefits of free and open-source software
• Security
• Multilanguage Support

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.openhealthnews.com/hotnews/openemr-continues-grow-popularity-and-use |title=OpenEMR Continues to grow in Popularity and Use |access-date=2012-12-20 |author=Groen, Peter |date=2012-12-18}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.govhealthit.com/news/peace-corps-plans-ehr-system-2013 |title=Peace Corps plans EHR system in 2013 |access-date=2012-02-03 |author=Mosquera, Mary |date=2012-02-03}}{{cite web |url=http://linuxmednews.com/1328459378/index_html |title=Peace Corps Selects OpenEMR |access-date=2012-02-05 |author=Cahn, Jack |date=2012-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415112226/http://linuxmednews.com/1328459378/index_html |archive-date=2012-04-15 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.mi-squared.com/2013/11/peace-corps-openemr-project-starts-now/ |title=Peace Corps OpenEMR Project Starts Now! |access-date=2013-11-12 |author=McCormick, Tony |date=2013-11-08}}{{cite web |url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/ensoftek_inc_wins_peace_corps_global_electronic_medical_records_emr_system_development_and_implementation_contract/prweb11304855.htm |title=EnSoftek, Inc. Wins Peace Corps Global Electronic Medical Records (EMR) System Development and Implementation Contract |access-date=2013-11-12 |author=EnSoftek |date=2013-11-07}}{{cite web |url=http://www.openhealthnews.com/hotnews/us-peace-corps-adopts-openemr-use-77-countries-world-wide |title=U.S. Peace Corps Adopts OpenEMR for use in 77 Countries World-wide |access-date=2013-11-13 |author=Herr, Crista |date=2013-11-13}} Siaya District Hospital, a 220-bed hospital in rural Kenya, is using OpenEMR.{{cite web |url=http://linuxmednews.com/1328842067 |title=MediGrail LLC Automates Siaya District Hospital in Rural Kenya with OpenEMR |access-date=2012-02-10 |author=Sidhu, Yudhvir |date=2012-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003045012/http://linuxmednews.com/1328842067 |archive-date=2012-10-03 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.openhealthnews.com/hotnews/siaya-district-hospital-kenya-goes-live-openemr |title= Siaya District Hospital in Kenya Goes Live With OpenEMR |access-date=2014-04-14 |author=Groen, Peter|date=2012-04-08}}{{cite web |url=http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Success_Stories#Siaya_District_Hospital_in_Kenya_Goes_Live_With_OpenEMR_in_April_2012 |title=Siaya District Hospital in Kenya Goes Live With OpenEMR in April 2012 |access-date=2012-06-13 |author=Sidhu, Yudhvir|date=2012-03-26}}{{cite web |url=http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Success_Stories#Siaya_District_Hospital_in_Kenya_Update_11_Jun_2012 |title=Siaya District Hospital in Kenya Update 11 Jun 2012 |access-date=2012-06-13 |author=Sidhu, Yudhvir|date=2012-06-12}}{{cite web |url=http://www.openhealthnews.com/hotnews/open-source-emr-alternatives-kenya |title=Open Source EMR Alternatives for Kenya |access-date=2012-12-20 |author=Groen, Peter|date=2012-11-21}} HP India is planning to utilize OpenEMR for their Mobile Health Centre Project.{{cite web |url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/7/prweb9699462.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805052929/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/7/prweb9699462.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 5, 2012 |title=HP India Mobile Health Centre Project To Utilize OpenEMR |access-date=2012-07-17 |date=2012-07-16}} There are also articles describing single clinician deployments{{cite web |url=http://www.emrandhipaa.com/emr-and-hipaa/2009/11/25/openemr-success-story/ |title=OpenEMR Success Story |access-date=2009-12-14 |author=Holzer, Joe |date=2009-11-25}}{{cite web |url=http://linuxmednews.com/index.php/2006/01/29/using-openemr-in-family-practice/ |title=Using OpenEMR in Family Practice |access-date=2017-10-18 |last=Leeds|first=Mark |date=2006-01-29}}{{cite web |url=http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Going_From_Paper_to_Electronic |title=Going From Paper to Electronic: A Road Map |access-date=2014-11-21 |author=Peterson, Diane |date=2012-12-12}} and a free clinic deployment.{{cite web |url=http://www.healthcareguy.com/2009/11/15/guest-article-open-source-emrs-for-free-clinics/ |title=Guest Article: Open Source EMRs for free clinics |access-date=2009-12-14 |author=Clifford, Kevin |date=2009-11-15}} Internationally, it is known that there are practitioners in Pakistan,{{cite web |url=http://blogs.tele-healthcare.org/2010/01/jaroka-electronic-health-record-system.html |title=Jaroka Electronic Health Record System provides opportunities for further Research and Analysis |access-date=2010-01-23 |author=Mushtaq, Hina |date=2010-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818200300/http://blogs.tele-healthcare.org/2010/01/jaroka-electronic-health-record-system.html |archive-date=2010-08-18 |url-status=dead }} Puerto Rico, Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Israel, India,{{cite web |url=http://nagalandpost.com/ShowStory.aspx?npoststoryiden=UzEwMjQyOTE%3D-u5jpoTKCit0%3D |title=FPAI conducts training on OpenEMR |access-date=2010-04-05 |author=DIMAPUR |date=2010-04-05}} Malaysia, Nepal, Indonesia, Bermuda, Armenia, Kenya,{{cite web |url=http://www.prlog.org/12041984-openemr-presented-to-the-kenya-medical-association.html |title=OpenEMR presented to the Kenya Medical Association |access-date=2012-12-20 |author=VoIP4Africa Ltd. |date=2012-12-17}} and Greece that are either testing or actively using OpenEMR for use as a free electronic medical records program in the respective languages.{{cite web |url=http://www.opensourcehealth.com/open-source-health-announces-openemr-collaboration-with-more-then-50000-annual-downloads-to-clinics-in-200-countries/ |title=Open Source Health Announces openEMR Collaboration with more than 50,000 annual downloads to Clinics in 200 Countries |access-date=2015-02-21 |date=2014-12-11}}

OpenEMR has received a Bossie Award in the "Best Open Source Applications" category in both 2012 and 2013.{{cite web |url=http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/65165/bossie-awards-2012-the-best-open-source-applications-202530#slide21 |title=Bossie Awards 2012: The best open source applications |access-date=2012-09-20 |author=InfoWorld |date=2012-09-18}}{{cite web |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010155/10-award-winning-open-source-apps-to-try-today.html |title=10 award-winning open source apps to try today |access-date=2012-09-21 |author=Noyes, Katherine |date=2012-09-20}}{{cite web |url=http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/119652/bossie-awards-2013-the-best-open-source-applications-226975#slide20 |title=Bossie Awards 2013: The best open source applications |access-date=2013-09-24 |author=InfoWorld |date=2013-09-17}}

The official OpenEMR code repository was migrated from CVS to git on 20 October 2010.{{cite web |url=http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Git_Migration |title=OpenEMR Migration to git|access-date=2012-01-27}} The project's main code repository is on GitHub.[http://open-emr.org/ "Developer Links"], accessed 2017-02-15{{cite web |url=https://github.com/openemr/openemr |title=OpenEMR on Github|website=GitHub |access-date=2017-02-18}} There are also official mirrored code repositories on SourceForge,{{cite web |url=https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/code |title=OpenEMR on sourceforge|access-date=2017-02-15}} Google Code,{{cite web |url=https://code.google.com/p/openemr |title=OpenEMR on Google Code|access-date=2012-01-27}} Gitorious,{{cite web|url=http://gitorious.org/~openemr|title=OpenEMR on Gitorious|access-date=2012-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419015552/https://gitorious.org/~openemr|archive-date=2012-04-19|url-status=dead}} Bitbucket,{{cite web |url=http://bitbucket.org/openemr/openemr |title=OpenEMR on Bitbucket|access-date=2012-01-27}} Assembla,{{cite web |url=http://www.assembla.com/spaces/openemr |title=OpenEMR on Assembla|access-date=2012-01-27}} CodePlex{{cite web |url=http://openemr.codeplex.com/ |title=OpenEMR on CodePlex|access-date=2012-03-25}} and Repo.or.cz.{{cite web |url=http://repo.or.cz/w/openemr.git |title=OpenEMR on repo.or.cz|access-date=2012-01-27}}

The OpenEMR Foundation is a nonprofit entity that was organized April, 2019 to support the OpenEMR project. The OpenEMR Foundation is the entity that holds the ONC EHR Certification with SLI Compliance.

OEMR{{cite web |title=OEMR Organization Website |url=http://www.oemr.org/ |access-date=2012-12-20}} was a nonprofit entity that was organized in July, 2010 to support the OpenEMR project.{{cite web |url=http://www.oemr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/OEMR_2010-07-22_Organizational_Meeting.pdf |title=OEMR Organization Meeting Minutes (2012-07-22) |access-date=2012-12-20 |date=2010-07-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130411214009/http://www.oemr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/OEMR_2010-07-22_Organizational_Meeting.pdf |archive-date=2013-04-11 |url-status=dead }} OEMR was the former entity that held the ONC EHR Certifications with ICSA and InfoGard Labs.{{cite web |url=http://www.icsalabs.com/ |title=ICSA Labs Website |access-date=2012-12-20}}{{cite web |url=http://www.infogard.com/ |title=InfoGard Laboratories Website |access-date=2014-12-29}}

• 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Features#Version_4.1.1 |title=OpenEMR 4.1.1 Release Notes|access-date=2012-08-31}}
• 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) have 2014 ONC Modular Ambulatory EHR Certification by InfoGard Laboratories.
• OpenEMR version 5.0.0 (released 2/15/2017), 5.0.1 (released 4/23/2018), 5.0.2 (released 8/4/2019) has 2014 ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR Certification by InfoGard Laboratories.{{cite web |url=http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Features#Version_5.0.0 |title=OpenEMR 5.0.0 Release Notes|access-date=2017-02-15}}{{cite web |url=http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Features#Version_5.0.1 |title=OpenEMR 5.0.1 Release Notes|access-date=2018-04-23}}

OpenEMR was originally developed by Synitech and version 1.0 was released in June 2001 as MP Pro (MedicalPractice Professional).{{cite web |url=http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/The_OpenEMR_Community |title=The OpenEMR Community|access-date=2012-02-25|author=Donahue, Margaret|date=2006-02-16}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/1025910430/index_html |title=OpenEMR Released |access-date=2009-11-26 |author=Stack, Matthew |date=2002-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415112009/http://linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/1025910430/index_html |archive-date=2012-04-15 |url-status=dead }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/openemr/ |title=OpenEMR on Sourceforge|access-date=2014-04-29}}{{failed verification|date=January 2016}} The project evolved through version 2.0 and the Pennington Firm (Pennfirm) took over as its primary maintainer in 2003. Walt Pennington transferred the OpenEMR software repository to SourceForge in March 2005.{{cite web |url=http://openemr.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=openemr/openemr;a=commit;h=7080e87bbabb66d0456d75c3121f71bd6912572d |title=OpenEMR First Sourceforge Commit|access-date=2012-01-28}} Mr. Pennington also established Rod Roark, Andres Paglayan and James Perry, Jr. as administrators of the project. Walt Pennington, Andres Paglayan and James Perry eventually took other directions and were replaced by Brady Miller in August 2009.{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/openemr/ |title=Sourceforge OpenEMR Project |access-date=2017-03-05}} Robert Down became an administrator of the project in March 2017. Matthew Vita was an administrator of the project from July 2017 until February 2020. Jerry Padgett became an administrator of the project in June 2019. Stephen Waite became an administrator of the project in February 2020. Stephen Nielson became an administrator of the project in January 2022. Asher Densmore-Lynn became an administrator of the project in January 2024. So at this time Rod Roark, Brady Miller, Robert Down, Jerry Padgett, Stephen Waite, Stephen Nielson, and Asher Densmore-Lynn are the project's co-administrators.

In 2018 Project Insecurity found almost 30 security flaws in the system, which were all responsibly addressed.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45083778 |title=Health records 'put at risk by security bugs'|date=7 August 2018 |website=www.bbc.com |publisher=BBC |access-date=7 August 2018}}

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