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Do not be fascinated when I say OSCAR for the hospital. OSCAR is here Open Source Clinical Application Resource and not concerned by Oscar in Hollywood. OSCAR is a freeware open source products. It is a medical software. Open Source software products can be freely downloaded by anyone with the codes. They can be reviewed and redesigned for other uses. OSCAR open source medical software is delivered with General Public License (GPL) which guarantees that it is freely available, at no cost. General Public License also grants rights to individuals to develop and distribute medical software. OSCAR was launched by the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in 2001. This open source medical was introduced in order to produce the Web-based EMR to support various studies and clinical staff. Since its inception in 2001, he covered the globe, many towns and cities and the number of users is increasing day by day. Along with the other support services on OSCAR also entered the scene. Support for businesses with services such as server installation, maintenance, user training and support have increased with the growth of the use OSCAR. The user base of OSCAR as of May 2009 reached a level of 700-800 users in places like British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and PEI. Ontario and British Columbia topped the list with the largest number of users. This open source medical grew huge percentage of 75% in facilities for the year 2008 than the previous year. It is able to maintain the same pace in 2009 as well. This web based EMR product, being an open source product, is widely recognized.

A typical approach has been taken based in Ontario to select the web based EMR and OSCAR proved to be the best in each. These tests were carried out with the latest specifications and strict CMS CMS v3.0 namely specifications. OSCAR can be run on ASP and non-ASP also. In British Columbia the implementation and development of OSCAR is managed by the Group of British Columbia OSCAR user. Users and businesses support the community as OSCAR and they meet to discuss issues OSCAR at regular intervals. And the user community OSCAR Canada is the main organ involved in the development of this community web-based EMR product. Currently, the update of OSCAR is made twice a year during the months of April and October. The update of Oscar and other upcoming events of OSCAR are disseminated to the community through the Roadmap page on the site OSCAR Canada. There are major contributors to the Oscar project and they are large institutions such as McMaster University, McGill University, City of Toronto, business support OSCAR user groups and independent clinical and users.

OSCAR is one of the best EMR software web based products in the category of open source software. He has excellent management of chronic diseases diagram of operations for the disease such as diabetes, hypertension, CHF, COPD, asthma, HIV and INR. OSCAR is also equipped with tools for managing chronic diseases verification. Chronic disease management algorithms come with additional features such as customizing each patient. These maps and fact sheets to help improve monitoring of patients personalized care wise. This web based EMR software also includes maternity forms, reports and audit tools, preventive care and immunization modules, improving the prescription, and many other updated features.