OpenEMR, Electronic Health Records and Medical Practice Management Solution

OpenEMR is the most popular open source electronic health records and medical practice management solution. ONC certified by the OCSA labs with international usage, OpenEMR’s goal is a superior alternative to its proprietary counterparts. 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.

Some of the features of OpenEMR includes :

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

Patient Scheduling

• 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

Electronic Medical Records

• Interoperability
  • CCDA
  • Basic FHIR Support
• 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)

Prescriptions

• Online drug search
• Track patient prescriptions and medications
• Create and send prescriptions
  • E-Prescribe
  • Print
  • Fax
  • Email
• Customizable layout including options for DEA, NPI and state license numbers.
• In-house pharmacy dispensary support

Medical Billing

• 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 electronic billing to clearing houses such as Office Ally 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

• 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

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

More features

OpenEMR support much more features, such as multi languages support as there are already more than 30 languages supported. Advanced security providing Role Based menus and custom menus, ability to encrypt patient documents, in addition to the Supports fine-grained per-user access controls, active directory and much more.

Best of all, OpenEMR have a very large community, including more than 170 developers/companies that contributed to the code base of the application, and if you are looking for a strong and robust medical practice management solution, you won’t find better than OpenEMR to get started !

Check out the demo, to explore in real time the different features of the software. Released under a GPL v3 license.

More information at https://www.open-emr.org/