EMR Goes Open Source

Open-source software has been accepted by consumers and healthcare organizations as an equivalent and cost-effective alternative to proprietary software.

For those not familiar with the concept, individuals and organizations collaborate to develop world class applications and share the "Source Code" so that others can contribute use and improve the progams. Many people do not realize how often the technology they are using is actually an open source program. Three quarters of the worlds websites are run by Apache, an open source web server. Another notable example is the Linux operating system, which is rapidly taking market share from Microsoft Windows.

What does this mean for Scanning Medical Records?

National Scanning works with practices and facilities to convert medical records to digital files for import into most popular EMR systems, including OpenEMR.

About OpenEMR

In a 2005 study of fourteen solo or small private practices using two commercial EHRs, the average cost per practitioner to purchase a client-server EHR system was $44K (range $14.4K-$66.6K) and the annual amount thereafter was $8.5 K (range $6K-$12K) for maintenance and support.It was estimated that the EHR would save, on average, $32K (range $6.6K-$56.1K) per practitioner per year due to improved coding and other efficiencies.

OpenEMR is a open source medical practice management, electronic medical records, prescription writing, and medical billing application. It is a free replacement for medical applications such as Medical Manager, Health Pro, and Misys. It features support for EDI billing to clearing houses such as Availity, MD-Online, MedAvant and ZirMED using ANSI X12.

OpenEMR is one of the most popular free electronic medical records systems in use today, and records over 3,400 downloads per month. This is the equivalent in fair market value of $100,000,000 per month!

Currently there are practitioners in the United States, Puerto Rico, Australia, Sweden, Holland, Israel, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Indonesia, Bermuda, Armenia and Kenya that are either testing or actively using OpenEMR for use as a free electronic medical records program. There are many international features and the software has been fully translated in Spanish, Dutch, Greek, and both European and Brazilian Portuguese.

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