ggd wrote on Thursday, July 24, 2008:
Hi!
I’m exploring what is available in Linux/FOSS arena for keeping track of clients for a small homeopathic/counselling clinic.
Is OpenEMR overkill for or it and/or how does it compare with e.g. GNUmed ?
Any other recomenndation/hint ?
Sincerely,
Gour
markleeds wrote on Thursday, July 24, 2008:
OpenEMR is not overkill. You can run it on a Windows notebook computer with XAMPP, for example. This is not too hard to set up.
I don’t know about GNUmed. I just briefly read the FAQ and noted that they use Python. I don’t know Python, so that would not work for me at this point.
I think OpenEMR would work for your needs.
ggd wrote on Thursday, July 24, 2008:
Thank you for reply.
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OpenEMR is not overkill. You can run it on a Windows notebook computer with XAMPP, for example. This is not too hard to set up.
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I plan to use it on Linux only and I’m not afraid of setup-issues, but rather if it’s possible to disable the features one does not need and/or what are OpenEMR customizing capabilities?
<quote>I don’t know about GNUmed. I just briefly read the FAQ and noted that they use Python. I don’t know Python, so that would not work for me at this point.
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Heh, I do not speak neither of the langs (being occupied with another Haskell project atm.
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I think OpenEMR would work for your needs.
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Thank you for the input. I’ll ask my wife to test both pkgs to check how she is getting familiar with each one.
In the meantime, I tried demo for ClearHealth but wasn’t too impressed .
Sincerely,
Gour
openemrhq wrote on Friday, July 25, 2008:
Personally, I think OpenEMR would be a good fit for your clinic. You’d obviously have to customize the encounter forms and setup billing but, other than that, I think it could be an almost drop-in solution for your clinic. I really do believe that OpenEMR can work in just about any clinical environment with a little configuration and customization. We even have it running in a group home here in Oklahoma (not medically based).
As for GNUMed, I can’t speak about them as I’m very unfamiliar with them.
I’ve heard both good and bad things about ClearHealth - both the company behind it and the product itself. Obviously, I’m biased as I work for an OpenEMR consultancy.
Try both, see what feels ‘right’ to you. In the end, what’s ‘best’ will be what works for your situation.
Good luck!
Dave Kennerson
OpenEMR HQ, Inc.
Office: (918) 919-4624
Email: davek@openemrhq.com
bradymiller wrote on Friday, July 25, 2008:
hey,
It’s a bit outdated, but I did a quick review of open source options for an acupuncture clinic 2 year ago. Can be found at http://bradymd.com/ . In the introduction section I considered OpenEMR, MirrorMed, FreeMed, Vista, OSCAR, GNUmed, and Care2X; but dismissed GNUmed at that time(2 years ago) since it seemed to be still early in development phase.
-Brady
ggd wrote on Friday, July 25, 2008:
Hi Dave!
<quote>Personally, I think OpenEMR would be a good fit for your clinic. You’d obviously have to customize the encounter forms and setup billing but, other than that, I think it could be an almost drop-in solution for your clinic. I really do believe that OpenEMR can work in just about any clinical environment with a little configuration and customization. We even have it running in a group home here in Oklahoma (not medically based).
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I do not have any doubt whether OpenEMR does have all the features we need, but I’m only concerned about removing those things we do not need as well as tweaking, i.e. customizing to our needs.
We do not run GP and are situated in Croatia (Balkan) where everything is different 
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I’ve heard both good and bad things about ClearHealth - both the company behind it and the product itself. Obviously, I’m biased as I work for an OpenEMR consultancy.
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I understand. otoh, OpenEMR and GNUmed are the only players for now, although I’ll show FreeMED to my wife as well.
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Try both, see what feels ‘right’ to you. In the end, what’s ‘best’ will be what works for your situation.
Good luck!
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Thank you very much for your input.
Sincerely,
Gour
ggd wrote on Friday, July 25, 2008:
Hi Brady!
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It’s a bit outdated, but I did a quick review of open source options for an acupuncture clinic 2 year ago. Can be found at http://bradymd.com/ .
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Thank you for sharing it. My needs are even lower than there are for your clinic 
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In the introduction section I considered OpenEMR, MirrorMed, FreeMed, Vista, OSCAR, GNUmed, and Care2X; but dismissed GNUmed at that time(2 years ago) since it seemed to be still early in development phase.
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I looked at some other pkgs not present on your list, but it would be interested to hear what do you think about GNUmed today.
They just released 0.3rc1 yesterday.
Sincerely,
Gour