OpenEMR was originally developed by Synitech and version 1.0 was released in June 2001 as MedicalPractice Professional (MP Pro). Much of the code was then reworked to comply with the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and to improve security, and the product was reintroduced as OpenEMR version 1.3 a year later, in July 2002. On 13 August 2002 OpenEMR was released to the public under the
GNU General Public License (GPL) on
SourceForge. The project evolved through version 2.0 and the Pennington Firm (Pennfirm) took over as its primary maintainer in 2003. Mr. Pennington also established Rod Roark, Andres Paglayan and James Perry Jr. as administrators of the project. Robert Down became an administrator of the project in March 2017. The OpenEMR Foundation is a nonprofit entity that was organized April, 2019 to support the OpenEMR project. The OpenEMR Foundation is the entity that holds the ONC EHR Certification with SLI Compliance. OEMR was a nonprofit entity that was organized in July, 2010 to support the OpenEMR project. OEMR was the former entity that held the ONC EHR Certifications with ICSA and InfoGard Labs. == References ==