Welcome to Sunset Systems

We believe that medical practice software should not be shrouded in secrecy or hoarded as the intellectual property of private interests. Doctors work together in a spirit of learning and openness, and so should their computer systems.

Sunset Systems develops and supports free and open source software for practice management and electronic health records (EHR), and provides associated hardware as well as installation, customization, conversion and training services.

We are a primary contributor to the open source OpenEMR project and its community of users. This is a mature browser-based solution that includes scheduling, billing and EHR. It may be run either from an in-house server or in a professional hosting facility.

OpenEMR 2.8.3 Released

Submitted by rod on Wed, 2007-08-22 06:57.

OpenEMR version 2.8.3 and its companion FreeB 0.13 release are now available from SourceForge. This release has had a heavy focus on billing improvements. Some highlights are:

  • Electronic claims support has been rewritten, is much easier and no longer uses FreeB
  • Electronic secondary claims may be generated
  • NDC information may now be included in both electronic and paper claims
  • Improved support for billing codes with modifiers
  • Improved handling of electronic remits (X12 835)
  • Improved tracking of claims history
  • Added a start date for insurance plans, and logic to reference prior plans when appropriate
  • Support for the new HCFA 1500 format
  • Experimental support for multiple concurrent login sessions on the same desktop
  • Added dates and issues to documents and sorting of documents by date
  • Support for individual provider signature images in faxed prescriptions
  • Fee Sheet now supports justification and copays
  • Option to easily view the patient ID card from the patient summary
  • Fixes for known security vulnerabilities
  • Many other improvements and fixes

OpenEMR 2.8.2 and FreeB 0.12 Released

Submitted by rod on Tue, 2007-02-06 10:10.

OpenEMR version 2.8.2 and its companion FreeB 0.12 release are now available from SourceForge. These include about 70 improvements and bug fixes. Some highlights are:

  • Many new encounter forms
  • New reports: Collections report, Unique Seen Patients, Sales By Item, Receipts by Payment Method, Patient List, Patient Appointments
  • New optional frame-based layout for improved workflow
  • Added support for dispensing and inventory management of in-house drugs, and point-of-sale cash checkout
  • Added general-purpose fax and scanner support
  • New address book module, useful for referrals
  • PHP5 and MySQL 5 compatibility
  • Experimental X12 835 remittance processing for primary claims
  • Changes to facilitate printing multiple prescriptions per page and adding prescriptions to the medication list

Site Overhaul

Submitted by rod on Mon, 2006-03-06 12:38.

Sunsetsystems.com has a new look. After years of hand-coding everything, I've converted the site to Drupal.

Content is mostly the same as before, but we now have a search feature and I'll be able to easily enter news items as noteworthy things happen. And of course it's a great opportunity to improve my skills and experience with one of the best Content Management Systems around!