OpenEMR was originally developed by Synitech and version 1.0 was released in June of 2001 as MP Pro (MedicalPractice Professional). Much of the code was then reworked for HIPAA compliance and improved security, and the product was reintroduced as OpenEMR version 1.3 a year later, in June 2002. The project, now open source, evolved through version 2.0 and the Pennington Firm took over as its primary maintainer in January of 2004. Pennfirm did a good job of making the medical community more aware of OpenEMR, and as more developers and users became active in making improvements, the project’s code base was moved to SourceForge in March of 2005, where it remains today. EHR Live has taken the software and was able to support it on a secure web based infrastructure so clinics throughout the world can use the software without any IT knowledge or support.

OpenEMR features include:

• EHR/EMR System
• Practice Management (Appointments, Address Book, and Accounting)
• Electronic Billing to Insurance Clearing Houses
• CPT/ICD9/HCPCS Insurance Coding
• Prescriptions (E-Prescriptions, Fax, Email or Print)
• Built-in Rx Database
• HL7 Support (Interoperability)
• Web-based with Secure Access (SSL & ACL)
• Multilanguage Support Voice Recognition Ready