Two Medical Clinics Choose OpenEMR (LinuxMedNews)
Pennington Firm is delivering OpenEMR with CMS 1500 (formerly HCFA 1500) billing support, and connection to a clearinghouse for the processing of claims. OpenEMR is a full featured, practice management, electronic medical record and prescription writing application that can serve as a direct open source replacement for proprietary medical applications such as Medical Manager, HealthPro and MegaWest."
Posted May 23, 2004 17:46 UTC (Sun)
by msmelov (guest, #11243)
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Posted May 23, 2004 22:24 UTC (Sun)
by lakeland (guest, #1157)
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While I would much rather she went with linux, I have to admit that the exact setup is so much more polished it looks a lot better. Obviously dentistry is a little different to general practice, but I would be uncomfortable about recommending openEMR currently. Still, I'm delighted that people are using it -- the more small users it gets the closer it will become to what my wife needs ;-)
Posted Jan 7, 2005 23:17 UTC (Fri)
by operations (guest, #27072)
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We had some issues with the installation and was wondering if you could share your experiences.
Thanks
This is the first time I hear of this application. My father runs 4 small Two Medical Clinics Choose OpenEMR (LinuxMedNews)
medical centers. He has been running a scheduling program that some
slacker didn't finish (my mother finished it, it was written with VB and crystal
reports -- yuch, not to mention it needs virus prone Windows) but has been
doing billing the old fashioned way. He recently looked into some fancy
proprietary software solutions, but those require fancy IBM iServers (that's
what the company offers - no other choice of hardware) if he wants to
serve it himself (which is what he wants since that is cheaper than paying to
rent a server). The IBM server with the software and all their setup fees
comes to about $20,000 per medical center ($80k total). IIRC the
company's support includes 5 free visits within the first year, and then $1000
per visit. Also every major software upgrade is an additional $3000. I believe
that includes the physical upgrade service.
Now I'm looking into this app to see if it will server his needs -- if it does
then I can just build a nice Dual Opteron server with either gentoo (my fave)
or SuSE 9.1 Pro (yast kicks ass). I can setup all the necessary LAMP
components myself. This will cost him under $2000 per medical center ($8k
total). Because it is my father's business I will build everything in my own
time, but I will charge a meager $30/hr to upkeep the server. If I can't do it
myself I have plenty of friends who wouldn't mind earning a little extra doing
it.
I won't even bother doing a TCO study, I think the winner in this case is
obvious.
My wife is currently working without a computerised setup. When they move to a computerised setup, the choice is basically between this and exact dental (um, seems to be at http://www.soeidental.com/exactprof/default.htm). Two Medical Clinics Choose OpenEMR (LinuxMedNews)
Hello, We're trying to install OpenEMR and noticed that you installed it. This is our configuration:Two Medical Clinics Choose OpenEMR (LinuxMedNews)
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