MResult Healthcare and PatientOS announced today a new cost-effective solution for implementing Electronic Medical Records.

PatientOS, an Open Source (free) Electronic Medical Record (EMR) has released version 0.21 - a major update to physician office scheduling - custom appointment types, overbooking, rescheduling, multiple resource viewing, custom work schedules and more.

An online demo is available.

PatientOS is a free EMR system for physician offices and clinics. The system is designed to scale and evolve to be a fully fledged healthcare information system for hospitals.
Version 0.40 adds an HL7 laboratory result inbound interface (ORU^R01). A basic result viewer has been added to the chart.
PatientOS version 0.40 includes a demonstration web based Patient Portal. Patients can login and submit a progress form which is filed into their chart.
The patients chart includes a Flowsheet tab which displays the discrete details submitted via the Patient Portal. Basic communication orders can be created.

An email service has been added to allow the composition of text or HTML emails.

A Batch Scheduler has been created. Batch Jobs can be defined and executed at scheduled times.

PatientOS is an Open Source EMR for Hospitals, Physician Offices and other Healthcare Facilities. Version 0.85 brings the following features:

- All new look and feel.
- Role based security.
- Multi-facility logic.
- Extensive tool and chart enhancements.
- Progress Notes
- Custom physician documentation
- Detailed allergy, symptom, diagnosis, problem lists.

The PatientOS Electronic Medical Record is an Open Source Healthcare Information System live or has an active implementation project in several large and small facilities.

Released under the GPL v3 license the system provides registration, scheduling, billing, clinical documentation, orders, patient portal, results, inventory and medication management functionality.

"To provide quality healthcare services, healthcare providers need to share information whenever they require. In a closed environment, the interfacing issue between disparate systems has been an obstacle for communication and information sharing," said Joseph D. Dal Molin, secretary of the Open Source Health Care Alliance.

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Nonprofit organization Open Source Health Care Alliance (OSHCA) believes that open source software is the path to follow when it comes to integrating systems and sharing various medical-related information in the local healthcare Latest News about healthcare industry.