OpenEMR is a free medical practice management, electronic medical records, prescription writing, and medical billing application. These programs are also referred to as electronic health records.
OpenEMR is a free open source replacement for medical applications such as Medical Manager, Health Pro, and Misys.OpenEMR features support for EDI billing to clearing houses such as ZirMED and MedAvant using ANSI X12.Medical claim and accounts receivable are accomplished through SQL-Ledger, which has been customized.
Calendar features include categories for appointment types, colors associated with appointment types, repeating appointments, and the ability to restrict appointments based on type.
There are customizable medical encounter forms, support for voice recognition software, electronic or scanned digital document management for records, and support for HL7 messages.
OpenEMR is one of the most versatile electronic medical records and operates in Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux, and MS Windows.
OpenEMR enjoys some of the broadest user support and developer support. Currently there are practitioners in the United States, Puerto Rico, Australia, Sweden, Holland, Israel, India, Malaysia, Nepal, and Kenya that are either testing or actively using OpenEMR for use as a free electronic medical records program.
The development group has professional developers, security specialists, and physicians involved in the development process.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Official ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR Certification: http://tinyurl.com/3wxgc39
· Clinical Decision Rules (CDR)
· E-Prescribing
· Embedded Internationalized Patient Portal
· Secure SOAP APIs to support third party patient portals
· Graphical form API
· Graphical pain form
· Patient education portal
· Calculation and reporting of Clinical Quality Measure (CQM)
· Calculation and reporting of Automated Measures Calculations (AMC)
· Addition of mechanisms to track/record AMC
· Added a medical record template and WYSIWYG editor (called "Nation Notes") to the Layout Based Forms (LBF) engine
· Support for standardized immunizations entry (CVX codes)
· Can record patient death (if patient is deceased, then is indicated in the patient summary screen)
· Ability to Hide/Show Left Pane Menu
· Option to color code calendar elements by facility
· Support for importing RXNORM data tables
· Support for importing SNOMED data tables
· New data object/types supported in Layout Based Forms(LBF) and the form generation tool, XMLformgen.
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