GaiaEHR is free and open-source medical practice management and

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software.

Technologies

The software suite is written as a

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and includes both server and client. The server is written in

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and can be employed in conjunction with a LAMP "stack", though other operating systems are supported as well. The client side does not employ a common

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, but some own software based on the

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. GaiaEHR is

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subject to the terms of the

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(GPL).

History

The GaiaEHR project originally forked from

OpenEMR OpenEMR is a medical practice management software which also supports Electronic Medical Records (EMR). It is ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR certified and features fully integrated electronic medical records, practice management for a medical practice ...

in September 2009 as MitosEHR but after a few years the project and repository were renamed to GaiaEHR. Active development seems to have stopped in 2016.

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