OpenEMR 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

OpenEMR

4.0

(26)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About OpenEMR

OpenEMR is a cloud-based solution providing electronic medical records (EMR), medical billing and patient scheduling.

The EMR functionality offers customizable forms, patient reports based on demographics, notetaking capabilities and digital document management. Voice recognition capability is available for practices using a Windows operating system.

OpenEMR's billing capabilities support both electronic medical billing and traditional paper claims and offer a claim management interface.

The software's scheduling system helps users find available appointment times, sort appointments into different categories, track repeating appointments and manage appointment restrictions based on their type.

All calendar functions are also available on OpenEMR's mobile app, enabling physicians and office staff to keep track of appointments from anywhere on their smartphone.

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OpenEMR Features

Popular features found in Electronic Medical Records
Claims Management
Clinical Notes
Clinic Interoperability
Communication Management
Compliance Tracking
Decision Support
E-Prescribing
Medical Billing
Patient Portal
Patient Scheduling
More features of OpenEMR
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
Appointment Management
Appointment Scheduling
Billing & Invoicing
Charting
Client Database
Client Portal
Confirmations/Reminders
Customizable Forms
Customizable Templates
Data Import/Export
Diagnostic Reports
Document Management
Document Storage
Drug Reference Database
EMR/EHR
For Group Therapy
For Medical Purposes
For Mental/Behavioral Health
Healthcare Compliance
HIPAA Compliant
Initial Assessments
Lab Integration
Meaningful Use Certified
Medical History Records
Medication Alerts/Warnings
Medication Management
Mobile App
Multi-Location
ONC-ATCB Certified
Patient Communications
Patient Records Management
Practice Management
Prescription Management
Prescription Renewal
Reminders
Reporting & Statistics
Search/Filter
Task Management
Therapy Notes
Third-Party Integrations
Treatment Planning
Workflow Management

OpenEMR User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.0

Ratings Breakdown

54%

15%

12%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.7

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

3.4

Functionality

3.7

Alfredo J.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2024

Leading solution and open source

We have used openEMR for over a decade and the software has grown to be an integral part of clinics we service. Thanks to this platform this healthcare providers have been able to go paperless and efficiently work with patient data.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

OpenEMR is a very complete solution which is also open-source. This lets us customize the platform for any need the healthcare provider needs and is more accessible to use internationally.

Cons:

The code can be a bit complicated to work with and integrating with some plataforms users prefer for acheduling and certain tasks can be a challenge.

Kiran M.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2024

being part of system

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Everything included in system is good and fine.

Cons:

web best system, data centralization and cloud system.

Verified

Reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2024

Worst Code Bases Ever

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Open source and has most of the functionality you'd expect in an EMR

Cons:

1- No support and very poor documentation 2- Poor API (Very few endpoints) 3- One of the worst code bases I have ever come across, Views have SQL queries, no standards, poor database design

Ralf L.

Verified reviewer

Medical Practice

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed December 2018

A very powerful system but some assembly is required

We are a relatively new solo Internal Medicine practice with less than 1000 active charts. We replaced NextGen's Office EMR system with this EMR. The migration from the old commercial system was painful, labor-intensive, and time-consuming because we did not have direct read access to the NextGen Office database (proprietary commercial database, which ironically was also on AWS just like our new system but we did not have system administrator or backup access). Everything had to be converted to PDF's. We chose the AWS Hosted Standard version, and we were immediately surprised how much faster and more reliable the hosted OpenEMR system was than our previous commercial system or other cumbersome and extremely unreliable and slow systems we have been forced to use at other clinics and hospitals. Staff required minimal training to use the system and historical records and patient documents can be very quickly uploaded to this system up to about 10 MB in size without changing any of the default configuration on the AWS system (there is probably a timeout setting). We use another database from larger attachments archival. The developers and super-users of this system provide expert support to upgrade issues and critical problems. With minor issues, you are more or less on your own if you want an immediate fix (hire a consultant or figure it out yourself). OpenEMR is being actively developed and new features and improvements are constantly being added.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

* Extremely low cost of ownership. * Clean, easy to understand user interface and workflow. * Many functions can be enabled to add features or disabled to simplify the system with a massive but well-organized settings menu. * Very fast user interface and database when run on appropriate hardware. * Can be run on extremely fast and scalable Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a hosted system. * With AWS or another suitably designed and implemented system, you get ultra-reliable and near 100% uptime (100% except for scheduled database or software upgrades). * With AWS or another suitably designed and implemented system, you get the very best database management tools (such reliable backup and restore functions). You can also potentially access the database with other custom-written software. * Can be integrated with essentially any other system but often requires developing custom interfaces. * Infinitely customizable. * "Free" support from the developers and other power users instead of well-meaning but incompetent technical support staff who waste precious time to identify what the problem is, attempt to mark incidents are repaired when they actually aren't. * You never have to worry about a 3rd party software vendor holding your patient charts "hostage" as they raise prices or force you to use a crippled system that is not performing well. You have 100% control of your patient data instead of giving the keys to a profit-oriented entity that couldn't care less about your clinic.

Cons:

* Requires either strong inhouse IT staff, staff with significant computer system skills and experience to install and maintain or hiring of an outside consultant. * The billing system is rudimentary, and we do not use it except to record the patient's insurance information. We enter our coding into our progress notes and then send them to our in-house billing staff. * The electronic prescribing system either requires cumbersome or expensive 3rd party integration or use of a separate system. I attempted one of the 3rd-party e-prescribing integrations, which is free ... except that I could not get it to work. It also turned out not to be true e-prescribing (uses faxes). Instead, we use stand-alone web-based MDTOOLBOX, which is reasonably priced, extremely powerful, efficient, reliable, and fast. It has an amazing feature that allows the physician to be prompted for expiring prescriptions, which can then be renewed -- saving countless hours dealing with certain faxed refill requests. The system also handles electronic refill requests seamlessly. In our progress notes, we indicate the medications are reviewed and reconciled in MDTOOLBOX. We also tried Allscripts' stand-alone web-based ePrescribe (now Veradigm ePrescribe), which is a decent system, but a little more expensive and more cumbersome/inefficient to set up and work with on a day-to-day basis compared to MDTOOLBOX. * "Free" support from the developers and other power users who are quite busy so somewhat limit

Richard K.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

The best EHR solution in the World

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This software is ndlessly customizatable

Cons:

Does not have an out of box inpatinet module

David H.

Medical Practice

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2017

Excellent product. Should have done this years ago.

I like to be self-sufficient. I have used OpenEMR for over two years and find that it suits my needs perfectly. That having been said, I am a specialist and have had to develop many of my own forms and other customizations before the product was directly useful to me. I have tended to view that more as a hobby than an impediment but for those who are not so inclined it appears that there are vendors about who would be happy to do this work for you, presumably for a price. Alternatively, the help forums are active and helpful, although one must know how to define and ask the question before the answer will be of benefit.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

The price is wonderful! The product works, although not necessarily right out of the box if you have special needs. Flexibility is great. Freedom from support costs is gratifying (although it does require one to become proficient to the desired level if you wish to avoid all support costs). Fancy equipment not required. Works on multiple platforms.

Cons:

There is a learning curve, especially if customizations are in order. My suspicion is that this would be relatively quick for primary care practices. Specialists might require additional customization that will either need to be done in-house or contracted out. This is not as much a con as simply a fact. I'd much rather have an open source product that I can customize myself than a proprietary one-size-fits-all product for which I can't access the code and have to keep running back to the mother company every time I want to make a minor (or major) change.

Kishore P.

Verified reviewer

Medical Practice

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

Best free open-source php emr software

We have been using it for eight years so far from version 4.2.2 through 5.0.2 to 6.0.2 currently.The current version is very easy to utilize in a small but busy medical practice.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use.Multiple types of forms are available for data entry.Interface of openemr 6.0.2 is definitely silky smooth.It is suitable for our small practice which has 13,000 registered patients so far.

Cons:

There is no dedicated mobile app developed yet.Browser-based interface is suitable but that would be a plus.

Dr. Michael S.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2020

More than meets our needs.

We have run it successfully on the same server for over 8 years with no issues.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I was looking for something that would get me away from paper charts. In addition, I wanted something that was more robust and would allow for proper record keeping.

Cons:

I wish it automatically could e0mail patient reminders.

Reasons for choosing OpenEMR

HIPAA compliant and we own and control the server. While we are in Canada, it was quite easy to alter the program to meet Canadian requirements.

Santiago C.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2021

About this software

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Price, easy to install , dont crash. Iam using Openemr from 2010 in my private medical office. All my service are in the net, in our domain. I install this software, Im not informatic, Im orthopaedics,..

Cons:

Translate, is very hard (form me) translate to portugues

Wesley K.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2021

Need some improvement

OpenEMR is generally an excellent EMR.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Generally it is a good EMR compared to others.

Cons:

The barcode pop up should include customized patient details like the OpenClinic GA which generates an opd card with patient details. Also, the "in house" option in dispensing module should be removed to make the dispensing module easy. If you forget to select a drug from the "in house" drop down, then the system will give an "Internal error, no drug ID specified!" error. Please remove the "in house" option.

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