Last Updated on August 17, 2024
ClearHealth is an open source practice management and electronic medical records system designed by clinics and hospitals. It is a fully comprehensive system.
The software offers Electronic Medical Records (EMR), medical billing, medical accounts receivable, scheduling, and access control. It makes use of other open source software. For example, ClearHealth uses PHPGacl for access control, and FreeB for the medical billing element. The latter enables support for paper HCFAs and X12 formats.
More importantly, it offers tight integration between the separate elements.
ClearHealth has an Object Oriented base EMR that can be extended without programing. The software uses EMR extensions which are akin to HTML forms. By using extensions, the EMR can met the requirements of the medical practice.
The ClearHealth system is fully compliant with HIPAA security provisions, and is used by over 600 medical facilities worldwide.
Features include:
- EMR functionality:
- Health Status Alerts.
- Patient Dashboard.
- Encounters.
- Allergies.
- Social History.
- Problem List.
- IHI Self Management Goals.
- Medical History.
- Clinical Summary.
- Real-time Lab Results.
- Electronic Lab Ordering.
- LOINC Code Support.
- Patient Pictures.
- Barcode Generation.
- Barcode Scanning and Workflows.
- Decision Support.
- SOAP.
- Drawover Images.
- ID Cards/Magstrip support.
- Patient Portal/History from Home.
- PDF Forms.
- PDF Reports.
- Labels.
- On-demand Superbill/forms.
- CCR Records.
- Specialty Configurations.
- SNOMED.
- LiveBookmarks/Worklists/RSS Feeds.
- Data sharing/Patient Portal.
- Scheduling.
- Patient registration.
- Electronic medical records and CPOE.
- Electronic and paper billing.
- SQL reporting.
- PDF templates for reports.
- Insurance-based appointment rules.
- XML output for all objects.
- Support for visualizations in default templates.
- Additional modules for document storage, customizable reporting/forms, lab results and prescription management.
- Scheduling: supports overbooking and uses a powerful set of filters to allow you to see whatever portion of the schedule you want.
Website: github.com/clearhealth/clearhealth
Support:
Developer: David Uhlman, Josh Eichorn
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
ClearHealth is written in PHP. Learn PHP with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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