I am a Masters of Biomedical Informatics student at Oregon Health and Science university. I am working on a paper comparing open source medical software with commercial software from a business standpoint. I am looking for users of OpenEMR in medical practices to give me some general information to use as examples in my paper. I am particularly interested in experiences in requirements gathering, product selection considerations (and commercial products considered), value as a financial measure, and IT department infrastructure.
In an attempt to encourage people to contact Diane, I want to point out that she has been actively working with the OpenEMR community for a while.
She authored this paper among other contributions: http://www.oemr.org/wiki/Going_From_Paper_to_Electronic
Welcome to the project and thank you for your contributions. If you ever have any questions that fall on the vendor or IT side, we are located on 4th Avenue in downtown Portland, just a few minutes away from OHSU.
I am an Ophthalmologist (M.D.), who converted the paper medical records to OpenEMR last August as a do-it-yourself project. Startup cost was $5.99 for the SD card for backup. At the risk of sounding rather immodest, I sucessfully attested to Meaningful Use this January. I do everything, myself, in the office because my secretary (and solo employee) has just retired. So, ask away.