This section of the forum is a little quiet, which is too bad, since opinions on open source is what I am most interested in, and since I feel that open source is a natural fit to the healthcare industry not only as far as cost, functionality and operations go, but also due to similarities in philosophy. Perhaps a list of some open source EMR projects will spark some intersting opinions. The following are all the open source EMR's and medical projects that I can remember:
FreeMed, a practice management and electronics records systems
OpenHRE.org. I believe the aim of this project is to standardize the health records of various open source medical projects, in order to facilitate record exchange
OpenEMR.net, practice management and EMR
The Reminder Database: A Tool for Quality, a reminder service.
tkFP Project, EMR for a small practice
VistA, the Veteran's Administration's public EMR
Care2X, EMR and practice management
MirrorMed, EMR and practice management.
FreeB, a medicall billing engine
VistaOffice, EMR and practice management.
WorldVista, EMR and hospital management.
CottageMed, EMR.
Oscar, EMR and practice management, focused for the Canadian health system.
Life Record, a web based EMR and practice management system.
You can also have a look at my company's (Sourcio's)
EMR and practice management system that we developed based on care2x
Life Record is the one that currently interests me the most on that list. I'm not actually sure if Life Record is open source or not. Their website says that they do use open technologies, but they don't advertise it so frequently and proudly as most other OS companies. They certainly have a business model of an open source company: free product, paid-for services. Anyway, they look pretty solid and they have some interesting and original ideas, such as an EMR podcast.