Don't forget OpenEMR which has been around for quite a while and has
seen a great deal of activity and user-contributed improvements over
the past year.
Indeed one of its greatest strengths is the ability of users to easily
create or sponsor new features that are important to them.
www.oemr.org
-- Rod
www.sunsetsystems.com
On Monday 17 April 2006 08:58 am, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
>
> 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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