What sort of market share does OpenEMR have? How many customer installs are there? 10s? 1000s?
Per Wikipedia, estimates are 5K US practices, 15K non-US.
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#12What sort of market share does OpenEMR have? How many customer installs are there? 10s? 1000s?
Since OpenEMR is open source and supported by numerous vendors, companies, and volunteers, it's very difficult to accurately collect this information. It's downloaded more than 4000 times per month, and the project is confident there are thousands of installations in the US and across the globe. There was an attempt in 2012 in this article to quantify the number of installations:
http://www.openhealthnews.com/hotnews/openemr-continues-grow...
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#13The Affordable Care Act mandated use of EMR and heavily funded its adoption. Is there really not one fully implemented open source solution after all that money was spent? Why does this project exist?
As someone who has made an EMR and has used OpenEMR there are a few reasons why there hasn't been a fully implemented open source solution in this space. 1.) Hospitals are fairly risk averse organizations. Instead of spending resources on building out a technical team and building their own solutions they usually will outsource tech to a third party (EPIC, GE, Cerner, etc). A CTO of a hospital is usually just a check…
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#14The Affordable Care Act mandated use of EMR and heavily funded its adoption. Is there really not one fully implemented open source solution after all that money was spent? Why does this project exist?
As someone who has made an EMR and has used OpenEMR there are a few reasons why there hasn't been a fully implemented open source solution in this space. 1.) Hospitals are fairly risk averse organizations. Instead of spending resources on building out a technical team and building their own solutions they usually will outsource tech to a third party (EPIC, GE, Cerner, etc). A CTO of a hospital is usually just a check…
PG, if you've used it before, you might glance at it again. I'm on the development team, and I've put a lot of effort into smoothing out the installation process and building HIPAA-friendly deployments. We've got one product in the Amazon Marketplace right now, with another one coming soon.
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#15The Affordable Care Act mandated use of EMR and heavily funded its adoption. Is there really not one fully implemented open source solution after all that money was spent? Why does this project exist?
This project exists to offer an open source EMR and give providers and patients the freedom that comes with that.
OpenEMR has gone through the rigid US regulatory requirement for an outpatient EMR and is Meaningful Use certified. It can compete in functionality with any of the other proprietary outpatient EMRs out there.
This then give providers and patients throughout the globe, especially low resource areas, access to a free and open source fully functional product.
And we are always looking for volunteers, contributors, and donations to maintain the progress of OpenEMR.
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#17What sort of market share does OpenEMR have? How many customer installs are there? 10s? 1000s?
Since OpenEMR is open source and supported by numerous vendors, companies, and volunteers, it's very difficult to accurately collect this information. It's downloaded more than 4000 times per month, and the project is confident there are thousands of installations in the US and across the globe. There was an attempt in 2012 in this article to quantify the number of installations: http://www.openhealthnews.com/hotnews…
In the US, wouldn't they need to do a Meaningful Use attestation?
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ehr-vendor-marketshare-...
It seems like a solid number for those should be available somewhere.
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#18The Affordable Care Act mandated use of EMR and heavily funded its adoption. Is there really not one fully implemented open source solution after all that money was spent? Why does this project exist?
The ACA mandated and funded the adoption of EMR in large part by providing funding to physicians' offices which they could use largely as they wanted as long as they ended up with a certified EMR. Unfortunately the certification process is "not free" to tune of at least tens of thousands of dollars in testing costs to outside certification authorities, plus whatever work needs to be done as prep or to remediate issues. OpenEMR also used to have a very unpolished interface in a "frame-driven late 90s web form" kind of way, and that probably hurt its adoption some when practices were looking at it and comparing it to more polished offerings from the commercial vendors.
There have been multiple open source EMR packages over time, many of them derived from failed commercial attempts that were then open-sourced. I believe that OpenEMR is one of those, but I think that most of the rest have fallen by the wayside or are used in situations where certifications and Meaningful Use attestation are not so relevant.
Others on the thread (e.g. brady) are core members of the OpenEMR team so they're probably better able to answer questions.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since OpenEMR is open source and supported by numerous vendors, companies, and volunteers, it's very difficult to accurately collect this information. It's downloaded more than 4000 times per month, and the project is confident there are thousands of installations in the US and across the globe. There was an attempt in 2012 in this article to quantify the number of installations: http://www.openhealthnews.com/hotnews…
In the US, wouldn't they need to do a Meaningful Use attestation? http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ehr-vendor-marketshare-... It seems like a solid number for those should be available somewhere.
It is Stage II certified (http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Certification... for details) and Stage III certification is a work in progress (http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Certification...).
I'll note that there are (possibly out of date) estimates at the bottom of the Stage III page of ~31 developer months of work to be fully ready for Stage III and an estimate of $22k to cover the cost of certification testing. I suspect the testing hasn't gotten cheaper in the past 2 years, and I don't know how much developer effort has gone into MUIII.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since OpenEMR is open source and supported by numerous vendors, companies, and volunteers, it's very difficult to accurately collect this information. It's downloaded more than 4000 times per month, and the project is confident there are thousands of installations in the US and across the globe. There was an attempt in 2012 in this article to quantify the number of installations: http://www.openhealthnews.com/hotnews…
In the US, wouldn't they need to do a Meaningful Use attestation? http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ehr-vendor-marketshare-... It seems like a solid number for those should be available somewhere.
Thanks for pointing that out(I learn something new every day). I looked into this and attestations are published here: https://dashboard.healthit.gov/datadashboard/documentation/e...
On a quick scan (the spreadsheet file was 300MB and it looks like I wasn't able to load everything on my computer at work), there are at least 300+ OEMR attestations (this is the non-profit organization that represents OpenEMR for MU certification).
Will plan to look into this further and thanks again for pointing this out.