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- Cottage Med
- A very practial approach. Working now in a real practice. Designed by practicing physician.
- Designed on the MAC, it also runs on Windows,
because it runs under FileMaker Pro
- OpenEMR
- This one looks nice in their demo. Web
based using MySQL, Apache and PHP
- Appears to be gaining some momentum
- Has billing using FreeB, but I can't figure out how it works from the demo on their site.
- Open Source but appears to have aim of generating revenue for developers via providing commercial support. Nothing wrong with that.
- OSCAR
- From McMaster Univ. in Canada
- Developed in a University Clinic setting.
- Has many features they need, perhaps not
as well suited for small offices in U.S. due to different payor systems
in U.S. vs Canada
- OpenEMed
- Kind of a platform for EMR development, using the OMG CORBA standards for
enabling a platform
and programming language neutral widely distributed networked EMR.
- Also uses JAVA server pages for providing a Web Browser interface.
- It is not really an EMR, it's more like a platform on which one could build an EMR.
- The main developer worked many years for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, so his mindset results in his
samples of
EMR
components being oriented towards large government style projects such as "Bio-terrorism
Alerts" and
Unique Person identification services useful more on a
national scale.
- It does not yet seem to really have anything very useful for a small office practice, such as
prescription
management
or
billing, at least at this time. But this may change as the PhoenixPM project has decided to use the
OpenEMed platform in their project and should be adding more components.
- PhoenixPM
- A project of the Alliance for Rural Community Health a network of N. Caifornia Federally Qualified
Rural Health Clinics.
- Recently received a grant to develop a public domain open source practice management software suitable
for Federally Qualified Rural Health Clinics.
- It appears they have decided to use OpenEMed as their development platform. This should be
interesting as it should finally add some usable components to OpenEMed
- Crisnet
- Interesting project from Belgium Family
Medicine group
- Organizes members of a "Care Team" around the patient records
- PHPMed
- GnuMed
- Built using cross platorm WxPython GUI
- Uses Postgres Relational Database
- Will be powerful, but currently very
difficult to install and maintain for non-programmers as it is in
constant state of change and one must keep up with the current CVS
files along with the programmers to keep it running. No stable beta
test version with easy installation available for non-programmers. Thus
not quite ready yet for a real medical practice.
- Bootable Knoppix disk with Gnumed pre-installed with option to
install Knoppix and GnuMed would help, but links to such an effort at
Knoppix.net
are
currently dead.
- VISTA
- The U.S. Veteran's Administration Software.
- Available free due to the Freedom of Information Act
- Becoming easier to install the basic
system on Linux due to the
packaging efforts of World Vista Team.
- Still very difficult to set up a working installation due to
detailed working knowlege of M programming language, and other detailed
knowlege of the system required. I suspect the arcane knowlege
required to set up and maintain it ensured job security for
the team of programmers who spent their entire careers working on
VISTA for the VA. This worked well at the VA where the users
contributed the ideas and the develpers responded, but resulted in
extreme dependence on the developer team provided by the VA. This may be
VISTA's Achille's heel for the open source transition. Hopefully VISTA
can eventually be packaged in a way that mere mortals can set
it up and maintain it.
- The M language used is still good, but newer open source
programmers are not familiar with it, which hampers recruitment of new developers.
- SQL Clinic
- FreeMed
YIRC
- A spinoff of the FreeMed project.
- Adapted for the needs of a Youth Residence Clinic
- It is being used in a real world setting in the
developer's workplace.
- Open Healthcare Group
- Open Paradigms
- Recently became inactive.
- Descended from FreePM by Tim Cook
- Based on the ZOPE framework to provide an object oriented network enabled database
with a web browser front end for the user.
- Evolved into TORCH which is
still on Sourceforge but seems dormant.
- FreeMed
- One of the first Open Source EMR projects. Even older
than tkFP.
- Uses the popular "LAMP" platform - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP to
provide
a web browser based interface.
- Has a billing module.
- Still being actively developed and has commercial support available.
- CirCare
- Cosmos
- OSHCA
- Open Source Health Care Alliance
- Mailing List for Open Source Medical Software discussion
and announcements
- LinuxMedNews
- The best site for news from the Open Source Medical
Software world.
- AccessGP
- Powerful CottageMed analogue from Australia
- Based on MSAccess database
- Not Macintosh/Linux compatible
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