FreeMED (Electronic Health Record)

The project is being developed for a Client's Company based in Florida, USA.

FreeMED Overview:

FreeMed is an open source electronic medical record system based on Windows or Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.

Introduction:

FreeMed is complete solution for efficient, reliable and modern management of your clinic, hospital or medical practice. Its all-in-one software that offers many features which helps in everyday work. Its core component, electronic medical records EMR (Electronic Medical Records), helps you in storing, keeping, analyzing and editing every single info on your patients. It comprises good and flexible way of appointment scheduling, general and individual reminder options, used both for all your employees of just your own.

FreeMed is suitable for all types and sizes of medical care institutions allowing easy operation in one or more offices located in different city areas. Support for multiple security levels provides ability to organize access rights and available data for doctors, technicians and staff. FreeMed does not require anything more than standard PC equipment and one Apache Server. It is very easy to learn and use in your medical institution.

Benefits:

• FreeMed is free and open source software.
• No special, expensive hardware is required
• FreeMed is integrated with our web-based so that more than one user can connect to server.

Features:

1. Appointment scheduling:
   For a patient it is very important to have precisely scheduled appointment. This feature allows you easy way of defining date and time of the visit, all possible services required. It is also used for creating new patient record in a case of the first patient’s visit.
2. Reminder:
   Reminder option is useful for leaving notices to your employees, specific person or general information to all staff. Of course, you can use it as reminder note or notes for important meetings, for ordering supplies, etc
3. Electronic Medical Records:
   Also known as Electronic Patient Records this option helps storing all your patient data (name, address, phone…). This is of course in electronic form which can be further easily searched, edited or managed. It creates efficient work; therefore you do not see papers in mess at your working place. Your search of data could be performed based on various criteria including any patient data (like name, even part of the name), doctor’s name, date, etc
4. Reporting and Statistics:
   In order to better meet your demands various reports are here provided by FreeMed.
5. Easy to Learn:
   FreeMed is easy learning and using and it also allows quick accessing to every feature for experienced and also new users.

Language:

FreeMed can be translated into four world language (module in progress)

Programming Languages used:

FreeMed is mainly written in GWT (Google Web Toolkit), PHP, and makes heavy use of SQL, favoring the MySQL database engine. It also uses some bash, Perl, and small pieces written in other languages. Its interface is primarily web-based, but web services interfaces, such as XML-RPC, are also available.