dibbers wrote on Wednesday, July 28, 2010:
I already have a practice management system that takes care of my patient, cases, scheduling, and most importantly the billing. It does not however have the ability to handle electronic documents. So I was thinking of using OpenEMR soley for the document management capabilities to hopefully greatly reduce the number of paper charts we currently have.
Any suggestions for this, or is there a better solution if that’s all I want?
aperezcrespo wrote on Wednesday, July 28, 2010:
Hi
Although I would recommend switching over to OpenEMR this way the documents are part of the Patient Record and of course billing, but if DMS is all your looking for try one of these
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kt-dms/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/opendocman/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/epiware/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kordiledms/
and of course there are others just search for Document Management here in sourceforge.
Hope this helps
sunsetsystems wrote on Wednesday, July 28, 2010:
Dunno. You can certainly do that but it’s generally more efficient to integrate document management with everything else. A primary reason to use OpenEMR is that it’s open source and so does not lock you in to something whose future is at the mercy of others. What practice management system are you using?
dibbers wrote on Thursday, July 29, 2010:
We’ve been using Medisoft for years, are very familiar with it, it does a great job with everything I mentioned above, except for the document management (EMR/EHR). Yes, they do have an EMR/EHR system as well, but it’s $25,000 or so.
We use an electronic billing service that takes care of Tricare, Medicaid, BCBS, etc all from within Medisoft, that works great, so wouldn’t be sure about switching to something else.
sraj49 wrote on Friday, July 30, 2010:
Hi Dibbers,
We just helped a Clinic with more than 10000 patient’s records to migrate from Medisoft to OpenEMR successfully and the system is running very efficiently. We had to transfer all records related to around to be precise 11286 patients, customize forms, customize billing etc.
You will love oprnEMR when you realize the freedom you have not depending on Medisoft people. The client had been with Medsoft for more than 12 years……
Raj
tmccormi wrote on Friday, July 30, 2010:
We just did a Medisoft conversion for for a 6000 patient setup here in Portland with similar results and happiness 
-Tony
sraj49 wrote on Saturday, July 31, 2010:
Good to hear that Tony. Di you do any custom modifications? Did you use any automation tool for importing past data.
Raj
apapillion wrote on Tuesday, August 03, 2010:
Have to throw my own “OpenEMR success story” into the mix: 5 docs, 2 locations, 7500 patient records migrated from Medisoft to OpenEMR. Not a problem at all and they are tickled pink to be out from under Medisoft. Had some form customization and other setup stuff to do but it went REALLY smoothly.
dibbers wrote on Thursday, August 05, 2010:
So does OpenEMR have a clearinghouse similar to RelayHealth for electronic billing for Tricare and Medicaid?