OSCARwest EMR Services Inc

OSCAR & the CommunityIn 2001, the OSCAR project was started by the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University (in Hamilton, ON, Canada) with the objective of producing a state of the art web-based EMR to support diverse academic and clinical functions. Since 2001 OSCAR has been implemented in large and small clinics across the country with users Canada-wide. In 2012 a not-for-profit entity called ''OSCAR-EMR'' was incorporated, which will oversee ongoing development, Ontario provincial certification and quality management processes and continue the task of centrally maintaining the code base.In British Columbia, we have a diverse group of users continually driving growth in OSCAR. It was in the west that the first 'user's groups' were convened, E-mail list-serves opened, and the OSCAR Canada Users Society was formed. OSCARwest has been intrinsically involved in all of this community effort and is pleased to have fostered OSCAR alongside some of the early inexhaustible pioneers - Drs.