tmccormi wrote on Monday, April 14, 2014:
OpenEMR is still weak on basic accounting functions. Some improvements around claims billing and payment posting were contributed by Sunset, MI2 and ZHH a few years ago, but much still needs to be done.
See: http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/File:OpenEMR-PracticeMgmt-Developement.pdf
MI-Squared has recently been contacted by several groups that would like to contribute to these improvements but the project is too big for them alone. Minimum cost for the core modifications to support true transactions (per GAAP) and good, basic reporting are estimated at $30K, the whole project with all the bells and whistles is more like $100K (some will tell you it’s much more than that and are probably correct).
Are there any practices or other vendors out there that would like to do a collaborative project around this to be contributed back to the community?
20 clinics contributing $1500 each would get it a long way. Could do that via the OEMR.org if desired and we could bid the work out to the qualified developers.
Tony
oemr.org president