ClearHealth is an
open-source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
practice management (PM) and electronic medical records (EMR/EHR/PHR) system available under the GNU General Public License.
ClearHealth has been acquired and th
public source code repositoryhas not received updates since 2013.
It has received attention as a possible open-source option for
FQHC
A Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) is a reimbursement designation from the Bureau of Primary Health Care and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. This designation is si ...
and
CHC sites.
History
ClearHealth began when the core developers of several other open source healthcare software systems including OpenEMR and FreeMed.
In 2006, the Tides Foundation provided a grant which funded the development of a set of feature additions to support the specialized needs of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) and other CHC/RNC facilities.
Written in the PHP language and capable of running on most server configurations, Windows, Linux or macOS, under Apache and MySQL (
LAMP
Lamp, Lamps or LAMP may refer to:
Lighting
* Oil lamp, using an oil-based fuel source
* Kerosene lamp, using kerosene as a fuel
* Electric lamp, or light bulb, a replaceable component that produces light from electricity
* Light fixture, or ligh ...
).
Amongst several open source solutions for the healthcare industry, the California Healthcare Foundation identified ClearHealth specifically as a viable solution based on its evaluation of sites and support in its Open Source Primer on healthcare software.
Features
ClearHealth is a comprehensive practice management and EMR system incorporating scheduling, patient registration, electronic medical records and
CPOE, electronic and paper billing, and SQL reporting.
As an open source reference implementation of several interoperability protocols, ClearHealth has support for working with data in
HL7
Health Level Seven or HL7 refers to a set of international standards for transfer of clinical and administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare providers. These standards focus on the application layer, which is "la ...
and
Continuity of Care Record
Continuity of Care Record (CCR) is a health record standard specification developed jointly by ASTM International, the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the American Academy of ...
(CCR) formats.
The ClearHealth system is fully compliant with
HIPAA
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA or the Kennedy– Kassebaum Act) is a United States Act of Congress enacted by the 104th United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 21, 19 ...
security provisions.
Deployments
It is currently deployed at approximately 600 sites worldwide including commercially supported and self-supported open source installations. There are a number installations in non-profit health settings including the Primary Care Coalition network, powering the Community Healthlink System, in Maryland, USA, which includes approximately 50 sites and 1,500 users and Operation Samahan, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) look alike facility in National City, CA with 5 locations. OsNews provides an introduction to the system.
[OsNew]
OsNews Introduction
/ref>
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Clearhealth
Free health care software
Healthcare software for macOS
Healthcare software for Windows
Healthcare software for Linux