OpenEMR
OpenEMR is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Health & Fitness category, licensed GPL-3.0 and written mainly in PHP. It ships a Docker image. It has 5,546 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 5,546
- Forks
- 3,104
- Open issues
- 905
- Commits, last 12 months
- 3,184
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v8_4_1Sep 20, 2026
- Created
- May 21, 2010
- License
- GPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 3,184 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases6 releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors14 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 3,184 |
| Latest release | v8_4_1 (Sep 20, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 6 |
| Releases, all time | 6 |
| Open issues | 905 |
| Open pull requests | 307 |
| Good first issues | 6 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | May 21, 2010 |
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About OpenEMR
Electronic health records and medical practice management solution.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/openemr/openemr.
Topics
- openemr
- practice-management
- emr
- ehr
- php
- linux
- windows
- osx
- healthcare
- hit
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Is OpenEMR free and open source?
Yes. OpenEMR is open-source software released under the GPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run OpenEMR with Docker?
Yes. OpenEMR provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to OpenEMR?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to OpenEMR include wger, SparkyFitness and Dreeve.
Is OpenEMR actively maintained?
The most recent commit to OpenEMR was on Oct 26, 2026 with 3,184 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v8_4_1, published Sep 20, 2026. It had 905 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.