5 Best Free and Open Source EMR Software

5 Best Free and Open Source EMR Software

Practice Fusion is an open source electronic health record solution. It is a web based solution and has approximately 17,000 customers and more than 100,000 users. Practice Fusion was founded in 2005 and has number of users like doctors, practitioner and large medical groups. This cloud based solution provide the doctors,medical professionals free advertising and supported electronic health record. This technology provide number of features to user like scheduling,e-prescribing, charting, billing,lab and imagine center integration,certification,health record and referral letters etc. Using Practice Fusion is very easy but this software not allow customization to their user.

OpenEMR is also an open source EHR application. It also provide the Electronic Medical Record option to their users. This application is designed for number of operating systems. The operating systems its supported are Windows, Linux, Mac. This application is not a web based solution. Community of this open source product is very active. This application allow you freedom of customization and code is publicly open. You can alter this product to fulfill your needs. OPenEMR has a number of features some of these are it supported E-Prescribing, provide integrated practice management features, provide easy installation procedures,provide Built in Scheduler,support multiple langugaes etc.

FreeMED is also another open source EHR supported software applications. It was founded in 1999.This is very mature and advanced Electronic Medical Record tool in medical industry. It also offer their user commercial license support. Community of this open source product is very active and contributed their continuous support to stable this product. FreeMED is comes with user friendly web based interface. Features of these product are, it provide printing and patient scheduling facility,provide HL7 interface and PDF templating, provide modular architecture and HIPAA compliant,use comprehensive external billing software REMITT, store data in group of module and module has user interface of store data etc.

XChart is an open source electronic medical record management software tool. It XML based open source solution developed by Open HealthCare Group. The purpose of XChart project is to develop a electronic system that is easier to use than paper based systems. Purpose of using the XML in XChart are based on under lying some comprehensive features such as It is easy to use,it provide the feature of portability across various operating systems and languages,it is extremely ubiquitous,It can be transformed via XSLT into different presentation formats. XChart health care software is very easy to use. A person with little training become expert enough to handle this software easily.

SmartCare is an EHR system which has been developed and deployed by Zambia Ministry of Health. This project has been made with the collaboration of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and many other partner was included. SmartCare provide continuous care and fully integrated health record system. The purpose to built this system was support support clinics that need to interface internationally and this system is most widely used in South Africa,Zambia and Ethiopia. SmartCare provide the features of distributed database system, Smart Card, Touchscreen and GIS data visualization.