OpenEMR
Electronic health records and medical practice management solution.
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Still maintained? Yes: 1,016 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v8_5_0 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Health and Fitness: MyFitnessPal alternatives, Strava alternatives.
At a glance
OpenEMR quick facts
- Health score
- 95/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 5,559
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v8_5_0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "OpenEMR is a Free and Open Source electronic health records and medical practice management application. It features fully integrated electronic health records, practice management, scheduling, electronic billing, internationalization, free support, a vibrant community, and a whole lot more. It runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and many other platforms."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
OpenEMR scores 95/100, #1 of 8 in Health and Fitness: 1,016 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v8_5_0, 3 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 5,559 stars add 15.0 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 5.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
1016 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v8_5_0 released 3 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 15.0 / 20
5.6k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 1016
- Last 90 days
- 3,249
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #1 of 8 tools in Health and Fitness by health , just above wger (#2) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | PHP, Docker |
| Latest release | v8_5_0 · 3 days ago |
| Stars | 5,559 |
| Open issues | 908 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | openemr/openemr ↗ |
OpenEMR vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with OpenEMR (Health and Fitness), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenEMR (this tool) | 95 | 5.6k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| wger | 95 | 7.2k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| FitTrackee | 92 | 1.2k | AGPL-3.0 | 9 days ago |
| Mere Medical | 90 | 321 | GPL-3.0 | today |
| NutriTrace | 90 | 361 | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| OpenELIS Global | 90 | 280 | MPL-2.0 | today |
OpenEMR: common questions
Is OpenEMR still maintained?
OpenEMR had 1,016 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v8_5_0, is from 3 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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