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OpenEMR HQ Announces OpenEMR Certification Program

Posted by David Kennerson on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @ 03:44 AM
from the OpenEMR dept.
Earlier today, in a weekly conference call with customers and consultants, OpenEMR HQ CEO Anthony Papillion formally announced the launch of the companies OpenEMR Certified Consultant and OpenEMR Gold Certified certification programs for individuals and companies wishing to demonstrate their knowledge of the OpenEMR medical records software product and offer their customers a guaranteed level of service. Digg this article

Papillion said the program has been in the works since July and is a response to the repeated complaints the company has been hearing about the wide variations in the quality of service being offered by several "OpenEMR Consultants".

"As we deal with customers, we're consistently hearing complaints about the service they're receiving from some companies and individuals out there and it often leaves a sour taste in these customers mouths about OpenEMR.", Papillion said during the announcement. "Our goal is to provide a way for customers to know with relative certainty that the consultant or company they choose can deliver on the promises of both technical acuity with OpenEMR and solid service after the sale".

Papillion also announced that, effective January 15th, 2009, OpenEMR HQ will only contract with OpenEMR Certified Consultants when hiring remote consultants and contractors. The company said that, while this will reduce the number of consultants available to them, it will make it easier to quantify the expected quality of their work during a contract.

More information about the OpenEMR Certified Consultant program can be found here or by calling the companies offices at (918) 919-4624.

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Re: OpenEMR HQ Announces OpenEMR Certification Program
by David Kennerson on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @ 08:00 PM

Just a note to those of you who are trying to access the PDF file by clicking on the link: there are problems.

For a solution, see this post by Shelly on the OpenEMR Blog.

Thanks!
Dave

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Re: OpenEMR HQ Announces OpenEMR Certification Program
by Fred Trotter on Friday January 02, 2009 @ 03:49 PM

A very simple way to fix this problem is to use Open Office to create your pdf files.

Open Office has the ability to simply save files directly as pdf. It is also FOSS which makes us "true believers" very happy.

Downloading the document does not work for me. I get the same error no matter how I open it.

One wonders why you posted a reply to this article referring to yet another article, rather than simply fixing the problem. This appears to be a 2 page document. Just re-write it in OO and be done.

One also wonders why you posted a message like this without testing that your download works.

No matter what the content of the document turns out to be. It is a tad problematic that you are offering certifications for OpenEMR. OpenEMR has a large community and it is difficult to see why your organization would be the most qualified to "certify" anyone else on the product? There is a defunct trademark on the name, (its probably generic now anyway) that is/was not owned by you. There is a non-profit oemr.org that you do not appear to be associated with that would seem to be a more appropriate place for "certification" to come from. You are not the original authors of the software. From what I can tell your only claim to fame is appearing in the top ten for a google search.

I am glad to see that OpenEMR HQ is investing in OpenEMR, but you are behaving like you are in charge.... are you in charge? At this stage it is probably still appropriate to mention why we should be taking you seriously.. Something like: "Supporting more OpenEMR installations than anyone else" or "contributed the new (insert new feature here) feature to OpenEMR" or "Contributed more patches than anyone else" or something...

Presumed legitimacy does not really work here...

-FT

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Re: OpenEMR HQ Announces OpenEMR Certification Program
by hurmph on Friday January 02, 2009 @ 09:23 PM

For someone who is quick to play with commercial vendors

http://linuxmednews.com/1191689822

Can you talk about legitimacy? Kettle, black and all that.

I assume eMDs paid for your flight?

It seems you support things when there is opportunity for YOU. Drop the chip FT.

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