openemr/openemr
The most popular open source electronic health records and medical practice management solution. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
95/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 86
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 40
- age_days: 5948
- days_rel: 15
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 4
Adoption not part of the score
5392 stars · 3014 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
OpenEMR is the most popular open-source electronic health records (EHR) and medical practice management application, written in PHP. It offers integrated health records, scheduling, electronic billing, prescriptions, a patient portal, FHIR interoperability, and is ONC certified, running on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Use cases
- manage patient medical records for a clinic
- run medical practice scheduling and billing
- self-host an ONC-certified EHR system
- expose patient data via FHIR APIs
- set up a patient portal for a healthcare practice
- manage prescriptions and clinical decision rules
- deploy an EHR on AWS or Docker
When to choose
- you need a free, open-source EHR/EMR without vendor lock-in
- you need ONC-certified software for US healthcare compliance
- you want self-hosted medical practice management with billing and scheduling
- you need FHIR/SMART-on-FHIR interoperability
When to avoid
- you need a lightweight library to embed in another app rather than a full application
- you lack capacity to host and secure HIPAA-sensitive data yourself
- you need a hospital-scale inpatient system rather than ambulatory practice management
Facets
application · maturity stable
self-hosted internationalization security api-framework developer-tools healthcare self-hosted web-development apis windows php self-hosted cross-platform ehr emr medical-records practice-management fhir onc-certified medical-billing patient-portal scheduling hipaa localization linux macos docker web-server
8 sources
- readme: https://github.com/openemr/openemr · fetched 2026-08-28 · aeb9f417bd37
- homepage: https://open-emr.org/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0defc5385b03
- site_page: https://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Features · fetched 2026-08-29 · 58eee7ae8f7a
- site_page: https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Features · fetched 2026-08-29 · 46c2d9d07989
- site_page: https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Installation_Guides · fetched 2026-08-29 · c14af3c4838a
- site_page: https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Features · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8149884cb81d
- site_page: https://open-emr.org/wiki · fetched 2026-08-29 · d12b752aaafe
- site_page: https://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ · fetched 2026-08-29 · afbbdc120c7e
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| openemr/openemr | main | 95 |
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