Open Source Medical Projects

PCs

FreeMed -- According to their Web site, "FreeMED is open source practice management and electronic and computer records system. It is Episode of Care based, differing from conventional billing records. It allows the tracking of medical data, in detail, with preservation not just of the diagnosis but the reasons for medical encounters."

OpenHRE.org -- OpenHRE stands for Open Source Health Records Exchange. According to its Web site, the mission of OpenHRE.org is "to foster development, distribution and support of Master Patient Index and Health Record Exchange systems and components held as Free/Open Source Software; to build a community to this aim; and to realize this goal via a self-sustaining business model and open collaboration among all stakeholders."

OpenEMR.net -- According to their Web site, "OpenEMR is an integrated practice management and electronic medical record application."

tkFP Project -- According to their Web site, tkFP is "an electronic medical record information system suitable for a solo or small group physician offices for storing clinical information on patients and other functions needed to run a small medical practice. It’s really a collection of the best free stuff we could find on the internet combined with some of our own code to get the components to work together. tkFP is currently running and in daily use in two separate dual physician family practice medical offices with over 5700 registered patients, one in California and one in Iowa."

VistA -- Resources and projects around the VistA project. The VistA project is the Veterans Administration's public domain EMR.

Mac

X-Sys Life Record -- According to its Web site, "The X-SYS Life Record breaks all the barriers set forth by other medical record applications. It is designed from the ground up to specifically identify and resolve the issues currently at hand with medical professionals and IT..." "...Consortiums of physicians and healthcare providers have given feedback to make the Life Record what it is - a powerful, non-intimidating application that even the most novice of users can begin utilizing."