protiks wrote on Monday, August 16, 2010:
Does OpenEMR plans to get certification?
protiks wrote on Monday, August 16, 2010:
Does OpenEMR plans to get certification?
aperezcrespo wrote on Monday, August 16, 2010:
Oh yes,
Well underway…Take a look here at what’s going on.
http://www.openmedsoftware.org/wiki/OpenEMR_Certification
Thanks
lsalichs wrote on Monday, August 16, 2010:
I have been monitoring the status of the certification effort since February. There has been a lot of progress since then. However, I have not seen progress since June. Either the effort is stuck or the site is not updated since June2010. Can anyone let us know what is the current status and update the status barometer?
aperezcrespo wrote on Monday, August 16, 2010:
Hi
The Barometer moves alot slower than the developers, but the effort is not stuck. https://sourceforge.net/projects/openemr/forums/forum/202506/topic/3752862 plus updates in the tracker (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=60081&atid=1245239) and the developer forum might help give you an idea.
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drbowen wrote on Monday, August 16, 2010:
The short answer is yes. There is a consortium of open source development companies that have been working on this with some volunteer help. The principal contributors have been Visolve (Sena Palanasami, Selvi Palanasamy, and others), OpenEMR Support (Myself and Jeremy Wallace), MI-Squared (Tony McCormick, Aron Racho), Sunset Systems (Rod Roark), Intesync (Thomas Wong), EHRSolutions (Verbus Counts), Garden State Health (John Willams, Michael Firriolo), Phyaura (Jude Pierre), Michael Brody, and Brady Miller.
Tony McCormick is the Project Manager and I am the Project Owner. We having been using “Agile Development” as modified by Tony for our trans world locations. The group meets every Monday night at 10 PM EDT. We have several of the Meaningful Use Criteria completed and most of the others are under active development. A number of these are the final phases of development and are going through a quality assurance cycle. Other meaningful use items, like the Clinical Decision Support, have been problematic because the Federal government had not yet set the final rules. Many of these were finalized last week.
We are currently between 80-90% finished with the process. I have personally been turning up the heat to get these final changes completed so that we can mark them as finished.
We are close enough that I have been discussing certification strategy with Verbus Counts and Selvi Palanasamy. Verbuis and Selvi are setting up Laika servers so that we can start simulating the certification process to identify weaknesses and to fix these weaknesses before actual certification takes place. The OpenEMR Project leadership (Open Source Medical Software) has been been meeting on a regular basis to plan how to keep track of certified copies of OpenEMR to allow the physicians in our community to take advantage of the Federal tax incentives and CMS payment incentives.
I am trying to post the progress reports in the developers forum:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/openemr/forums/forum/202506/topic/3752862
and there is the barometer as posted by Alfonso Perez above.
Sam Bowen,MD
http://oemr.org
http://openmedsoftware.org
sraj49 wrote on Tuesday, August 17, 2010:
Dr. Bowen,
I am willing to try the software in a live situation. The way I do the trials is run the software parallel. This is the way the best way to trial run the development model. The clinic sees about 100 to 150 patients every day and will be a good trial base. Please let me know if this would help. The clinic is already doing electronic billing and complete issue management through openEMR. About 12000 patient records were imported from the previous system. Let me know and I will download the latest development version.
Thanks
Raj