OpenEMR is open-source software for electronic health records and medical practice management. It includes scheduling with patient reminders, e-prescribing, medical billing, lab integration, clinical decision rules and role-based access control, and is available in more than 30 languages. A healthcare organisation can install OpenEMR itself on its own servers, with Docker or in a cloud environment. The pattern described here is an organisation or a European operator running OpenEMR itself within the EU.
OpenEMR is maintained by a community of volunteers and developers and is licensed under the GNU GPL-3.0. The OpenEMR Foundation is a nonprofit with US 501(c)(3) status that supports the project. There is no commercial vendor with a parent company; the hosted options promoted on the project website target US healthcare providers or AWS. When self-hosted in the EU, the operator decides where the data resides and who can access it. Administration, security and GDPR compliance are then the operator's own responsibility.