In today’s digital world it has become essential and even critical to use Electronic Medical Record (EMR) System to capture, store and manage medical information of every single patient. This helps to save cost and improve efficiency in the health management in many ways. The use of EMR System is even more important in the operation of telemedicine networks, where it makes the sharing of medical information for consultative purpose very practical and efficient.

eLifeLink is currently evaluating an EMR System developed by a worldwide network of volunteers from different backgrounds such as technology, health care, and international development . They are known as the global OpenMRS community who are working to build the world’s leading open source enterprise electronic medical record system platform. Once eLifeLink decides to use this EMR System it will work with the OpenMRS community to customize it to pilot it in a telemedicine project.

The EMR System developed by the OpenMRS community allows enterprises to design customized medical records system without the knowledge to develop complex software programs or to create database structures. The system is independent of the types of medical information required to be collected and therefore can be easily customized for different uses. It uses all patient data it collects on diagnosis, tests, procedures, drugs to design customized data entry forms and reports.

The EMR System demo developed by OpenMRS is designed to give a flavor of the system’s features and capabilities from an implementer’s point of view. It is a fully working copy of OpenMRS with observations on large numbers of fictitious patients. This tool allows one to perform the following key functions – Find Patient Record, Register a Patient, Check Active Visits, Capture Vitals, Schedule Appointments, Generate Reports, Manage Data, Configure Metadata and System Administration.

Test Drive the EMR System

OpenMRS is a completely free open source, community driven software with no hidden costs. Click this link to go to the download page where it gives you several download options depending on the type of installation you want.