Welcome

Ottehr is an open source EHR built using Oystehr.

Ottehr is designed for health organizations that want a custom EHR. It has a patient-facing application for managing appointments and telemedicine calls. The EHR includes features for a front desk to manage visits and appointment scheduling, and providers to take notes during visits and order prescriptions.

Ottehr is open source, and is designed for organizations that have an engineering team to customize it for their requirements. Depending on the organization's requirements, Ottehr may be fully functional without much customization.

This documentation provides guidance on how to use, configure, customize, and deploy Ottehr. To learn more about Ottehr's features, visit ottehr.com (opens in a new tab). Or, check out the code to get started with Ottehr here (opens in a new tab).

Motivation

We began building Oystehr because we regularly built healthcare applications, and each time hit the same sorts of problems. After being frustrated solving, or finding workarounds for, these problems again and again, we decided to build a platform to help both ourselves and others build healthcare applications.

So we did, and thus Oystehr was created. And it was going very well, we dogfooded (opens in a new tab) our product, and built the first few applications for our customers using Oystehr.

We always had goals for Oystehr to be more than an internal service; after building some applications with it, we began working with other organizations who wanted to build their own applications.

These organizations wanted to get started using Oystehr, but we soon realized we had a problem: some of these organizations didn't have their own development team, and even for those who did, building applications from scratch could be a big project. While Oystehr provides much of the functionality necessary for building applications, it isn't very helpful for creating user-facing applications without a frontend.

That's when we decided to build an open-source application for managing health records.