OpenEMR Grows in Popularity

As of 11-30-2012 there have been 198,042 downloads from the SourceForge project page. There have been an additional 10,000 downloads from the OEMR web site for a total of about 210,000 downloads. We estimate based on the number of companies that support OpenEMR that there are 5-10,000 medical facilities in United States. This represents about 30,000 practitioners using OpenEMR and 60,000,000 people being cared for using this EHR. only 35% of the users of OpenEMR are in the United States. World wide this represents 115,000 practitioners and 240,000,000 persons being benefited from this software.

Sam Bowen, MD

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  1. I would really want to publish this latest news article on Open Health News, BUT… some of the numbers are highly questionable. The number of downloads is easy to verify. However, the rough estimate of up to 10,000 medical facilities in the U.S. using OpenEMR raises eyebrows. Extrapolating that to 30,000 practitioners and 60 million patients (in the U.S. or the world?) is going to require a few more facts to substantiate the claim. I really want to believe the numbers and post the news on Open Health News. Can you elaborate more on the numbers, please?

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