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ClearHealth is a widely used Open Source practice management (PM) and electronic medical records (EMR/EHR/PHR) system available under the GNU Public License. The ClearHealth system has a number of well known installations in non-profit health settings including the Primary Care Coalition network in Maryland which includes more then 50 sites and 1,500 users and [1] in National City, CA. [2] provides in introduction to the system.

The history of ClearHealth is complex with its beginnings starting from the core developers of several other Open Source healthcare software systems including OpenEMR and FreeMed.

A commonly used fork of the ClearHealth system is [3]

Written in the PHP language and capable of running on most server configurations, windows, linux or OSX, under Apache and MySQL ClearHealth is similar is compliant with the expectations of most Open Source web-based systems.

Considered a milestone in Open Source healthcare by communities such as LinuxMedNews. ClearHealth has been able to make significant progress in providing a system which is usable by a wide variety of practices including those very large and very small.

An active user community is available from online forums and downloads are available from sites such as FreshMeat and SourceForge.

Written in the PHP language and capable of running on most server configurations, windows, linux or OSX, under Apache and MySQL ClearHealth is similar is compliant with the expectations of most Open Source web-based systems.


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