10/31/2023 0 Comments Emr systemOSCAR is FLOSS (Free libre open source software). You may also contact Adrian Starzynski, one of the enthusiastic contributors to the project. ![]() ![]() Generally OSCAR users embrace the opportunity to show their EMR off to interested colleagues and help them make good choices. The best possible demo experience is to visit an actual working OSCAR user near you and see a living, breathing OSCAR system in action. Some OSCAR support providers or developer groups provide demo sites, these are full OSCAR installations open for the public to explore. Some screen-shots are posted on this site here. OSCAR’s objective is to offer a “royalty free” set of Clinic Applications and Clinic Resources for use by health care providers and clinics in Canada and everywhere. Users only pay for their own clinic’s hardware equipment (if OSCAR is hosted on-premise), and the support they need. There is no purchase cost, no license fees, no update/upgrade fees, no user fees. OSCAR is developed using open-source tools, which are free of royalties. To read more about how open source software functions, click here. Any developments you make to OSCAR must be contributed back to the pool of OSCAR resources. The no-cost, or low-cost, open source approach is intended to enlist a critical mass of health care users and developers, to use and enhance the OSCAR system on an ongoing basis. For a self-reported Google Map of some OSCAR installations click here. We therefore rely on voluntary self-report by OSCAR support providers and users to establish usage statistics. The true number of Canadian users is probably higher than estimated, because physicians can self-install OSCAR, and, since it is a free open source project, there is no formal central register of users. Overall, the largest numbers of users are in Canada, in Ontario and BC. Because of its free license and modest hardware resource requirements, OSCAR seems to be a popular EMR choice with Canadian charitable clinical outreach and relief projects in the developing world. We have also heard about isolated installations in Africa, the Caribbean and in Vietnam. Internationally there are some OSCAR EMR systems running around the world, for example in Argentina (it has been translated into Spanish). ![]() There are thousands of physicians using OSCAR EMR and it should also be noted that OSCAR is the EMR used by Departments of Family Practice at a number of medical schools, including at McGill, at Queens, at UBC, at Western, and of course at McMaster. Since 2001 OSCAR has been implemented in large and small clinics across the country with most users found in Ontario and BC. In 2001, the OSCAR project was started by the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University (in Hamilton, ON, Canada) with the objective of producing a state of the art web-based EMR to support diverse academic and clinical functions. The name “OSCAR” is an acronym for “Open Source Clinical Application Resource”. To our knowledge OSCAR is the only widely deployed open source EMR system in Canada. Besides by physicians, OSCAR is also used by a variety of other front line health care professionals, including registered midwives, social workers, psychologists, nurse practitioners and physiotherapists. For a quick list of the key program features, click here. OSCAR is a fully featured Electronic Medical Records ( EMR) software program, designed by doctors for doctors, for use in medical offices.
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