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Family Medicine

OSCAR-EMR

Overview

Secure. Connected. Feature-Rich. Cost-Effective.

OSCAR was created by Dr. David Chan and McMaster University’s Department of Family Medicine. It has evolved with McMaster’s leadership and vital contributions from its dedicated open-source community to be one of the top EMRs in Canada.

Our shared vision is to enable continuous improvement in health outcomes and services, which includes making the experience and results the best they can be for the providers and recipients of care.  We do this through leading edge research, development and knowledge sharing among a vibrant community of engaged clinicians in collaboration with skilled developers and experts in technology systems and security. This network of clinicians includes McMaster, Queens, McGill, the University of British Columbia and thousands of physicians across diverse practice settings.

Offering OSCAR as a progressive, cost-effective EMR is key to realizing our vision.  OSCAR is the clinician’s integrated hub within an ever-expanding and dynamic digital health ecosystem of services and apps.

Contact Us

Interested in learning more about OSCAR?  Please contact the organizations listed under “Get OSCAR”.  They are your best resource for information about features, pricing or organizing a demo.

Questions or concerns about your OSCAR software?  Please contact the organization that supports your OSCAR software.  At McMaster, we don’t have direct visibility into your specific OSCAR installation so are not able to help you trouble-shoot or resolve concerns.  Thank you!

General questions about OSCAR or interested in affiliating with McMaster to offer OSCAR software? We’d love to hear from you.  Please send us an email and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

Get OSCAR

OSCAR software is:

  • Open-source — the source code* is governed by McMaster University’s GPL Version 2+ license;
  • Quality managed in accordance with ISO 13485:2016, ISO 27001 or other relevant regulatory standards in a jurisdiction; and
  • Compliant with McMaster University’s requirements for ethical stewardship of patient data in collaboration with clinicians and patients

OSCAR software is available from the following organization which is affiliated with McMaster University’s Department of Family Medicine. Please reach out to them to learn more about OSCAR or request a demo. We look forward to welcoming you to the OSCAR community of users!

We invite any other organization wishing to affiliate with us and offer OSCAR software in keeping with our defined standards for quality, innovation and ethical data stewardship to contact us.

* The source code is freely available for anyone to download, use or modify in accordance with McMaster University’s open-source license, however, the OSCAR brand may only be used or referenced in relation to EMR software with written authorization from McMaster. For more information, please contact Tracey Carr (contact@oscarmcmaster.org).

Innovate with OSCAR

Clinicians

OSCAR’s driving force for innovation has always been clinicians seeking to improve care and to learn from clinical data.  Share your idea here and we’ll explore with you how to transform that idea to something great for all OSCAR users!

Developers

OSCAR offers developers across the continuum from learner to expert the opportunity to create something that makes a positive difference in people’s lives.  Join us in making that difference!

To get started, explore the source code for OSCAR software* currently deployed as available in Bitbucket:

To ensure your development reaches all relevant OSCAR users, please liaise with with Well EMR Group’s development team to coordinate your development work and commit(s) and ensure all security and regulatory requirements are fulfilled.

*Affiliated with McMaster University and managed in accordance with ISO 13485:2016 or other relevant regulatory standard.  McMaster’s own code repository is available but is not currently the direct, quality managed source for deployed OSCAR software.

You may also join the Developer Listserv to collaborate with others.

App Providers

OSCAR is the clinician’s integrated hub within a rapidly expanding digital health ecosystem.  Together with OSCAR, integrated apps and services are transforming how care is offered and received, making the care experience more personalized, informed and effective.

To achieve these outcomes, it is essential that all apps and services integrate seamlessly with OSCAR software in a manner that upholds robust security and privacy standards.  We are pleased that Well Health Technologies has created apps.health to coordinate, confirm and profile authorized integrations that offer value to OSCAR users.  Each app profile lists the version(s) of OSCAR for which the integration has been confirmed as meeting minimum standard requirements (e.g., uses APIs; due diligence completed for privacy and security of integration; no server-side deployment).