Electronic health record (EHR) systems typically comprise of a practice management application (Scheduling, Patient Registration, Billing, Reporting)

 and EMR application (Clinical notes, Assessments/problem lists, e-prescription, standard prescriptions, Standard and Electronic lab orders, Standard and Electronic lab reporting, Document management, Decision support, Disease management, etc.).

A number of EHR systems are now available under open-source licensing, sometimes referred to as free and open-source software (FOSS). A major motivation for such efforts is the fact that proprietary health information systems, for the most part, are very expensive and difficult to customize. Among the open-source EHRs available for the USA, ClearHealth (www.clear-health.com), FreeMED (www.freemedsoftware.org), OpenEMR (commercial, www.openemr.net), OpenEMR (community, sourceforge.net/projects/openemr), WorldVistA EHR (www.worldvista.org/World_VistA_EHR) are some of the products that have gained wider acceptance among the medical community. For medical practices outside the USA, a few open-source EHRs are available such as the OSCAR (Canadian System, www.oscarcanada.org) and GNUmed (Germany, www.gnumed.org).

Open-source EHRs do carry several advantages including lower start-up and maintenance costs and greater flexibility for customization.

Jave JEE technology and the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) are some of the common open-source technologies that are used to develop these systems. Once developed, deployment options for the EHR software include (1)on-site installation of the EHR software only (2)on-site installation of hardware with all software pre-configured on them (3)remote Web-based hosting of EHR system (4)Software-as-a-service option.

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EMR/EHR       
A number of Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronnic Medical Records (EMR) systems are now available under open-source licensing, sometimes referred to as free and open-source software (FOSS). Listed below are some of the leading open source solutions.

ClearHealth
(www.clear-health.com)
ClearHealth is a comprehensive system encompassing a wide range of features including Scheduling, EMR, Real-time Lab Results, Electronic Lab Ordering, and a lot more. ClearHealth is an Open Source system under the Gnu Public License (GPL). ClearHealth is built using PHP, MySQL.

OSCAR (Open Source Clinical Application Resource)
(www.oscarcanada.org)
OSCAR supports all the necessary functions to run a family practice clinic large and small : Patient registration, Scheduling, Billing, Complete electronic charting, Prescription with drug-drug interaction, Chronic disease management, Antenatal care record, Disease Registry, laboratory results, Diagnostic imaging results and consultation notes.

The OSCAR Electronic Medical Record(EMR) : has full billing capabilities, chronic disease management tools, prescription module, scheduling and many other features. OSCAR can run locally in an office or be accessed over the internet.
MyOSCAR : is a patient controlled personal health record that integrates with the OSCAR EMR.
MyDrugRef : is a "social-network" for pharmacists and physicians to facilitate "knowledge transfer" of drug information and is fully integrated with the OSCAR EMR.
OSCAR CAISI : CAISI (Client Access to Integrated Services and Information) is a full featured case management, bed management and program/facility management system.
OSCAR Resource : is a compilation of free clinical resources which can be accessed through the EMR at the point of care.

OSCAR was originally tailored for the Canadian health System, but can be readily customized for other healthcare systems. OSCAR has been developed using Java (Tomcat, JSP/Servlets) and MySQL.

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