OSCAR McMaster

OSCAR McMaster is a web-based electronic medical record (EMR) system initially developed for academic primary care clinics. It has grown into a comprehensive EMR and billing system used by many doctor's offices and private medical clinics in Canada and other parts of the world. The name is derived from where it was created and an acronym; OSCAR stands for Open Source Clinical Application and Resource and McMaster refers to McMaster University, where it was developed. It enables the delivery of evidence resources at the point of care.

Since December 1, 2005, OSCAR McMaster had received successive certifications by OntarioMD under the Physician IT Program. OSCAR McMaster has also achieved ISO 13485: 2003 Certification and has met the requirements of the latest OntarioMD Specification 4.1 since April 2012. On September 30, 2012 OSCAR McMaster v12 product received Canada Health Infoway Pre-implementation Certification for Jurisdiction Class, Laboratory and Clinical Documents, Electronic Medical Record. Notably, by August 31, 2012 OSCAR is the only open source Clinical Management System (CMS) product (out of a list of 15 certified products from 13 vendors) to meet/exceed the requirements that ensure the product supports defined standards for clinical and practice management software and is currently holding 12.9% of the market share. Is is supported by a vibrant user and developer community OSCAR Canada Users Society.