OpenEmr: A Digital Health Record Tool

Some time ago we talked to you about GNU / HEALTH: Systems for health within everyone's reach and at the time a good article was made where an inventory was made regarding Distros and programs for hospitals or clinics, to complement individual articles and expand the set of free tools for hospitals or clinics we want to make known to OpenEmr, a free tool that will allow us manage digital medical records easily.

This excellent tool for digital medical record, comes to establish itself in an area where proprietary solutions are the ones that dominate the market, offering a diverse number of characteristics, associated with an orderly development structure and the freedom to adapt to any type of management around health.

What is OpenEmr?

It is a tool of open source, developed in php in order to offer a series of characteristics and functionalities that allow automate processes related to healthcare management. In general, this software dedicated to digital medical records has a high growth that has catapulted it among the most complete and popular.

OpenEmr it is client - server, so you can manage it from the cloud or on any local server, its installation, configuration and parameterization is quite simple, it is also highly scalable and adaptable to any health regulations, country, or business model.

In the same way, the tool has various certifications that endorse it as an appropriate tool for the management of digital medical records, also counting on a wide community that has allowed the use of the tool to be extended in different countries, with different languages, laws and cultures.

A demo of the tool can be accessed from here., the access data are:

user: admin

password: pass

Below you can view an extensive gallery of the application

OpenEmr Features

Among the many features that OpenEmr offers us, we can list the following:

• Free, open source and totally free.
• Simple and light requirements.
• Multiplatform (Linux, Windos and Mac Os.
• A large community with lots of Documentation or with a Support forum quite active.
• Support for more than 30 languages.
• Robust security policies, with encryption of patient information, access controls and compatibility with ssl certificates.
• It allows you to manage a large amount of data related to patients.
• Patients have a portal that offers them reports, test results, medical history, prescriptions, etc.
• Extensive management of medical appointments, with support for multiple installations, notifications, follow-ups ...
• An assistant that will allow doctors to make decisions based on information related to patients and pre-established rules.
• Creation, management and personalization of medical prescriptions, with the possibility of consulting medical sources online, printing or sending by mail, in addition to having the possibility of integrating with third-party pharmacies.
• A large number of functionalities related to the medical record, ranging from the inventory of medicines to the digital management of documents, through procedures to manage recipes, the internal messaging of the clinic, among others.
• It allows electronic invoicing, which must be parameterized and configured according to the regulations of each country, natively it adapts to electronic invoicing in the United States.
• A large number of reports by default and the possibility of including many more according to the needs of each clinic.
• Many other features that you can enjoy and discover.

How to download and install OpenEmr

A fairly advanced guide for the initial installation and configuration of OpenEmr on Linux can be found. here..

Debia, Ubuntu and derivative users have available here a .deb package that will allow you to install this digital medical record tool.

All documentation related to OpenEmr can be found in the application wiki

Undoubtedly, this is a powerful tool that will automate common processes in clinics in a simple, economical way and above all with total control of the application.