OSCAR: CONNECTING CARE, CREATING COMMUNITY

OSCAR is a suite of electronic health applications including:

• OSCAR: An Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system, designed by doctors, used by doctors and other front-line health care professionals.
  
• MyOSCAR: A patient controlled personal health record (PHR)
  
• MyDrugRef: A "social-network" to facilitate drug information exchange between professionals. MyDrugRef is fully integrated with the OSCAR EMR prescription module.
  
• OSCAR Resource: A compilation of free clinical academic information resources which can be accessed through the EMR at the point of care.
• OSCAR Kiosk: A self-check-in utility for patients, for use in medical offices.
  
• CAISI  (Client Access to Integrated Services and Information): An integrator to facilitate the seamless flow of medical information in multi-site care.
• Read more: About OSCAR
• Read more: About upcoming software demonstrations, events and user-group meetings
  

OSCAR is a free open source software project:

• Read more: About Open Source Software

OSCAR is a national community of developers and technical support providers:

• Read more: About OSCAR Support Providers (OSPs)
• Read more: About OSCAR's Open Source Code of Ethical Conduct

OSCAR is a community of clinical EMR users from across Canada and around the world:

• We are OCUS, the OSCAR Canada Users Society. We are the people who use OSCAR to do our work, caring for patients. Welcome to our website, collaboratively maintained by volunteer members.
• Read more: About OCUS
• Read more: About what users say about OSCAR

OSCAR is a collaborative partnership:

• In the medical community we value our strong traditions of collegial sharing of clinical knowledge and expertise. As medical practitioners it seems natural to us to extend this collaborative approach to the IT tools we use to care for our patients. This is why we find the open source approach to Electronic Medical Records development and implementation to be such a good fit.
• And that's why we at the OSCAR Canada Users Society work together with the developers and support community, to make sure that OSCAR is, and always will remain, simply the finest EMR software no money can buy!
  
• Read more: About McMaster University's role in OSCAR development
• Read more: About us at OCUS, the Oscar Canada Users Society
  

USER GROUP MEETINGS:

Next event:

• OSCAR Workshop in Campbell River, BC (printable flyer)
  
• WHEN: 20 June 2013, all day
• WHERE: Anchor Inn, Campbell River, BC. Google map
  
• AGENDA and REGISTRATION: Click here
  

Upcoming Meetings:

• OSCAR-CON 2014: BC User Group and OCUS Meeting in Vancouver. This will be a 2 day users conference with updates, discussion of new features etc. 

• WHEN: June 2014
  
• WHERE: Paetzold Auditorium, Vancouver General Hospital. Google map.
• REGISTRATION: TBA
  
• AGENDA: TBA

Previous meetings:

•  The 6th annual National OSCAR User Group Meeting  took place in Toronto at the FMF on Saturday November 16th, 2012.
  

• The 4th Ontario user group meting was held on November 2, 2012 at the Stonechurch Family Health Centre in Hamilton, Ontario.
• The first ever Quebec user group meeting was held in Montreal on September 20, 2012.
  
• The 3rd Ontario user group met on June 1, 2012 at the Stonechurch Family Health Centre in Hamilton, Ontario.
  
• Free Demonstration Evening in Vancouver (Flyer): For all folks interested in using or seeing OSCAR was held on the May 3rd 2012 at Vancouver General Hospital.
  

• BC user group and OCUS Meeting in Vancouver (Agenda): This was a 2 day users conference with updates, discussion of new features etc. held at the Paetzold Auditorium, Vancouver General Hospital.

• The National OSCAR User Group Meeting  took place in Montreal at FMF on Saturday November 5th, 2011 it was a great success as always with many folks coming together to learn about and collaborate on this great EMR.

• The 2011 Ontario User Group Meeting was held Friday Oct 14th 2011.

PHOTOS AND VIDEOS FROM PREVIOUS MEETINGS: 

National OCUS meeting in Toronto Nov 16, 2012

 The BC OSCAR User Group Meeting 2010: Monday April 19th and Tuesday April 20, 2010

Paetzold Auditorium, Vancouver General Hospital

Video Archive can be found here

   The First Ontario OSCAR Users Group gathered at the Stonechurch Family Health Centre, Hamilton, Ontario

 OSCAR users gathered for The BC OSCAR User group meeting in Vancouver on March 27, 2009 where the 2009 BC OSCARs were awarded