OpenEMR project plans to charge for listings on the OpenEMR Professional Support page

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The OpenEMR project has decided to charge for listings on the OpenEMR Professional Support page at Professional Support - OpenEMR Project Wiki . This will provide very needed financial resources to the OpenEMR project and will also ensure high quality listings on the Professional Support page.

There will be 3 tiers (Tier 1 vendors will be listed first, followed by tier 2 vendors, followed by tier 3 vendors). Tier 1 will cost $100 per month, tier 2 will cost $50 per month, and tier 3 will cost $20 per month. The project will acccept payments via Github Sponsor page for OpenEMR at Sponsor @openemr on GitHub Sponsors ¡ GitHub (note there are Corporate Sponsor levels where can choose $100 per month, $50 per month, or $20 per month). Although we prefer Github Sponsors, we will also accept Open Collective (OpenEMR - Open Collective) for vendors that are already contributing via that mechanism. To ensure payments are mapped to the correct entries, professionals/vendors will need to let us know (email at brady.g.miller@gmail.com) the github sponsor (or open collective) account.

We plan to reorganize the page on 10/1/2023. Any entries that are not contributing will be removed during that reorganization. More details can be founds at:Talk:Professional Support - OpenEMR Project Wiki

I n addition to this announcement, we plan to email out this plan to all the professional support vendors currently listed on the support page.

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Will you be prominently disclosing that vendors are paying for position on the page?

#3

Yes, plan to define what the different tiers are on the page (ie. tier 1 are vendors that pay $100 per month, etc).

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I understand the need for funding.
However, we have contributed significantly to the growth of OpenEMR for the past 10 years and just just started investing resources
on OpenEMR + AI after a lull period due to covid and not sure how this plays out moving forward if we also have to make monthly payment!
Love to see others’ views.
ViSolve Inc.,

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@ken , here is the planned ‘Overview’ section of the future professional support page:
Talk:Professional Support - OpenEMR Project Wiki

#6

Do the price points seem to high for your group at this point in time? I would think it is reasonable to pay $20/month even at the lowest tier for what essentially comes back as a lead generation for the company. It would seem like even just a single lead that comes from the professional support page would cover the costs of most of the tiers for an entire year. If that is not the case, I think the project would love to hear more about that.

I know for me the hope is that this is a mutual benefit for both the project and vendors who are benefiting financially from the leads that come from OpenEMR.

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Stephen,
The cost is not at all high! After all we have spent 100’s of thousands of $$ to the success of openemr including MU2 certification in the last several years. In fact we just formed a team to develop a “FHIR” layer for OpenEMR as it seems at this point the FHIR API is incomplete!
For me charging to list vendor seems more of a commercial side. I would rater recommend if one don’t actively participate for developing/supporting OpenEMR they should be removed!

It is not the cost that I had an issue with simply the value system of “Open-EMR” I am having difficultly internalizing.
-Sena
ViSolve Open-EMR Support team

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#8

Are there statistics available that describe the page views per month, users per month, etc? I am not sure if we ever get business from this wiki page, but more from helping folks on the forum.

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Analytics only tracks the non-wiki pages on the website (so do not have analytics on the professional support page). Over last 28 days, the main OpenEMR page had 13K views and 8K users.
It’s a win win win! :slight_smile: Vendors get customer leads. Customers get committed vendors. And OpenEMR gets funding that is needed to maintain certification.

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The new page is now official! (if your entry is not there, then please let me know if you want to get your entry back on the page)

https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Professional_Support

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