OpenEMR exists because during the summer of 2000, with the dot-com boom in full swing on the left side of the United States, four high school students in Cheshire, Connecticut spent the humid part of our year in a basement writing PHP code to manage documents for an internal medicine practice that belonged to one of the students' mothers.
It worked well enough. The four of us were all college-bound in different directions, so instead of trying to sell the software to medical practices, we released it under the GPL. Open source contributors took it from there.
OpenEMR exists because during the summer of 2000, with the dot-com boom in full swing on the left side of the United States, four high school students in Cheshire, Connecticut spent the humid part of our year in a basement writing PHP code to manage documents for an internal medicine practice that belonged to one of the students' mothers.
It worked well enough. The four of us were all college-bound in different directions, so instead of trying to sell the software to medical practices, we released it under the GPL. Open source contributors took it from there.