Andrew Schamess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Andrew,
There are several open source products but I doubt if any one of them can do
all that you ask.
LAMP based ones include OpenMed, FreeMed, MirrorMed and ClearHealth. All look
good but still not able to give you what you need.
JAVA based Oscar Mcmaster is promising too but is unable to provide what you
want, at the moment.
MUMPS based VistA or GT.M based WorldVistA version is of course the most
mature of the products, but is still not as user friendly as we would like it
to be. It seems to be the best bet for you.
OIO based on Zope/Python is a great product for the researcher or for audit of
a units work. It is very flexible and configurable, has scheduling and
workflows, user roles, permissions and some degree of reporting, but does not
have the billing software and some of the coding etc integrated yet. The ease
of use of Zope, the many excellent Zope Products that are available for
education/content management/communication/forums/wikis etc make it great for
an intranet too.
GNUMed is also developing to provide practice management and hoping to become
quite thorough and is one of the main products of Debian-Med.
HTH
NandA
I'm new to this listserve. I'm an internist, planning to leave a group
practice and open my own solo pratice in western Massachusetts. I would
like to use an electronic medical record. I was wondering if others here
could advise or share their experience.
The features most important to me are:
- Assist in meeting Medicare DOQ guidelines.
- Track preventive screening - know which patients are overdue for
Pap, etc.
- Templates, reminders, reports etc. configurable by MD.
- Improve documentation and coding.
- Integrated practice management (scheduling and billing software).
- If possible... patient interface that allows patient self-scheduling
for appointments, patient access to own health info, secure email and
messaging.
I've looked into VISTA office a bit (thanks to Joseph Dal Molin for the
tip). It looks promising, since it's based on the VAMC system which I know
works brilliantly; but I see it was put out for beta testing, and the
sign-up period ended in 11/05. I've written to the companies listed on the
website just the same. Anyone know if it's available at all outside
beta-testing, or if they're still signing up testers?
Joseph also suggested Oscar McMaster. Wondering if it handles U.S. cpt and
diagnosis codes? Or can they be obtained and installed?
I saw the MirrorMed (OP/EN) link that just came over... also looks good.
I'd really welcome any advice at all. I've looked at commercial products
too, but I have a bias toward open source and I'd rather participate in
testing and building something for public use than buy a license from a
private company if it's possible.
Thanks very much to all in advance for any responses!
Andrew Schamess
Lenox, MA
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