Difference between revisions of "OpenEMR is not Affiliated with LibreHealth"
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modernization improvements that make OpenEMR what it is. | modernization improvements that make OpenEMR what it is. | ||
Rather than focusing on their product, they are instead focusing on false marketing and advertising to claim endorsement from the | |||
solid OpenEMR brand. | solid OpenEMR brand. | ||
Their marketing has also attempted to give the appearance that OpenEMR | Their marketing has also attempted to give the appearance that OpenEMR | ||
is a stale project. This is simply not the case, with downloads of | is a stale project. This is simply not the case, with downloads of | ||
OpenEMR going greater than | OpenEMR going greater than 7,000 per month (yes, 7,000 per month!!!), 54 | ||
separate developers contributing to the code over the last 12 months!, | separate developers contributing to the code over the last 12 months!, | ||
an active forum providing support for users, | an active forum providing support for users, the transparent support | ||
from a non profit organization. | from a non profit organization, and certification as a Complete MU2 compliant EHR. The OpenEMR community sent the following letter to the Librehealth | ||
community on 11/17/2016 regarding their press release: | |||
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OpenEMR, open-emr.org, has resulted from a vibrant community of | OpenEMR, open-emr.org, has resulted from a vibrant community of | ||
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Arnab Naha, Brady Miller, Cathy Stillwell | Arnab Naha, Brady Miller, Calvin Ty, Cathy Stillwell | ||
Chelălău Ionuț Mihai, John Tenny, Matthew Vita | Chelălău Ionuț Mihai, John Tenny, Matthew Vita | ||
Ray Magauran, Roberto Vasquez, Robert Down | Ray Magauran, Roberto Vasquez, Robert Down | ||
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==What you can do to help OpenEMR!== | ==What you can do to help OpenEMR!== | ||
1. Keep using OpenEMR | 1. Keep using OpenEMR! | ||
2. Keep | 2. Keep telling everybody you know about OpenEMR! | ||
3. Keep | 3. Keep participating in the OpenEMR community! | ||
4. | 4. Keep supporting [[OpenEMR_Professional_Support|OpenEMR vendors]]! | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:43, 27 February 2017
OpenEMR is not Affiliated with LibreHealth
Quick Summary
Despite what you may of heard, OpenEMR is NOT joining hands with LibreHealth.
Rather than focusing on creating a superior and excellent product, LibreHealth is instead focusing their resources on false marketing machinations to claim endorsement from the great brand that is OpenEMR.
OpenEMR is doing everything it can to combat these false marketing machinations.
And OpenEMR will not be derailed from its continued focus on producing a superior and excellent product.
More Details
Several prior members of the community forked the project in April of 2016. This is not an uncommon event in the open source world and is not necessarily a bad thing sometimes driving competition to produce a better product. Ironically, one of the main stated goals of the fork was modernization, which has simply not been the case, and their fork has missed out on the hundreds of bug fixes, security fixes, features, and modernization improvements that make OpenEMR what it is.
Rather than focusing on their product, they are instead focusing on false marketing and advertising to claim endorsement from the solid OpenEMR brand.
Their marketing has also attempted to give the appearance that OpenEMR is a stale project. This is simply not the case, with downloads of OpenEMR going greater than 7,000 per month (yes, 7,000 per month!!!), 54 separate developers contributing to the code over the last 12 months!, an active forum providing support for users, the transparent support from a non profit organization, and certification as a Complete MU2 compliant EHR. The OpenEMR community sent the following letter to the Librehealth community on 11/17/2016 regarding their press release:
OpenEMR, open-emr.org, has resulted from a vibrant community of volunteers and contributors working together for over a decade. We, the OpenEMR community, remain dedicated to maintaining OpenEMR's excellence while guarding this free, open source, software solution for electronic medical records. We do not endorse this use of the OpenEMR name to promote this project and we do not believe that uncoordinated development efforts are in the best interests of users. Please immediately remove from this announcement and any promotional materials any suggestion that the current OpenEMR leadership or community is supportive of this project. Those mentioned in the announcement are no longer active in our community and are not in any way entitled to speak for it. Signed, Arnab Naha, Brady Miller, Calvin Ty, Cathy Stillwell Chelălău Ionuț Mihai, John Tenny, Matthew Vita Ray Magauran, Roberto Vasquez, Robert Down Rod Roark, Scott Wakefield, Sena Palanisami Shameem Hameed, Sherwin Gaddis, Srinivasa Rao Challa Stephen Waite, Tomas Vilhelm Current members and leaders of the OpenEMR community
It is also notable that when OpenEMR members reached out to LibreHealth members publicly in a objective and professional way, they were attacked in an ad hominem style.
What you can do to help OpenEMR!
1. Keep using OpenEMR!
2. Keep telling everybody you know about OpenEMR!
3. Keep participating in the OpenEMR community!
4. Keep supporting OpenEMR vendors!
