Open Source Electronic Medical Records for less than $1 Billion
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The Information Technology group at the Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University developed OSCAR in 2001. It is a fully functional Electronic Medical Record (EMR) that is currently supporting all the academic teaching units within the department and many other large and small clinics across Canada. OSCAR has been certified by OntarioMD under the Physician IT Program. Its ongoing development is being supported by a large group of developers from Brazil, Australia, USA and Canada. MyOSCAR is a Personally Controlled Health Record, an adaptation of the MIT/Harvard Indivo project (http://indivohealth.org). Information can flow freely between OSCAR and MyOSCAR thus allowing patients to participate in managing his/her own health care.
