OpenClinic GA

OpenClinic GA is a free, open-source hospital information system for hospitals and larger clinics, built with low-resource settings in mind. It covers patient administration, billing and insurance, clinical records, laboratory, X-ray, pharmacy stock and reporting in one web application that runs on a Windows or Linux server and is used from a browser. If you are looking for an OpenClinic GA download, the official releases and documentation are published on the project’s SourceForge page.

Be clear about the dental side before you install it: OpenClinic GA has no dental module. The developer documents no tooth chart, odontogram, periodontal chart or tooth-by-tooth treatment plan. A hospital with a dental department can still use it for registration, appointments, coded diagnoses, billing, imaging results and pharmacy, but the clinical dental charting has to live in another system. Development has also slowed: the newest Windows installers are version 5.247.01 from May 2023, a Ubuntu 24 package followed in October 2024, and the last code commit is from March 2024.

OpenClinic GA at a glance

What it does

• Admission, discharge and transfer (ADT) management with a single patient record shared across departments.
• Billing with health-insurance management; the developer lists built-in support for Central African, East African and Peruvian public and private insurers.
• Diagnosis coding through the 3BT clinical thesaurus with a coding aid for ICD-10 and ICPC-2, plus SNOMED CT coding of diagnoses.
• Laboratory order entry and results management with LOINC coding, and X-ray and pathology results management.
• Integration with a DCM4CHE/Weasis-based PACS and DICOM viewer, so imaging studies can be opened from the patient record.
• Pharmacy stock management with RxNorm-based, multilingual drug-drug interaction detection.
• Scheduling, human-resources management, archiving of scanned documents, and multimedia attachments (pictures, video, audio).
• HL7/FHIR API for data exchange, a mobile web interface with barcode recognition on Android, and a WebRTC tele-consultation module. Interface languages: English, French, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese.

How dental teams use it

Run a hospital dental clinic inside the main patient record

1. Register the patient once at reception; the dental clinic then works on the same record as the other departments.
2. Book dental appointments in the integrated scheduler.
3. Record the diagnosis with ICD-10 codes (diseases of the oral cavity, salivary glands and jaws are in block K00–K14) using the 3BT coding aid.
4. Invoice the visit through the billing module, including the patient’s insurer where one is configured.

Keep radiographs and photos with the patient

1. If the hospital runs the DCM4CHE/Weasis PACS integration, panoramic or intraoral images stored there as DICOM can be viewed from the record.
2. Clinical photos and scanned consent forms can be attached as multimedia or archived documents.
3. Tooth-level findings still need a text note or a separate charting system, because there is no odontogram.

Dispense medicines after treatment

1. Prescribe analgesics or antibiotics through the pharmacy module.
2. Let the interaction checker flag drug-drug conflicts before dispensing.

Install and first run

• Windows: SourceForge offers full 64-bit and 32-bit installers for 5.247.01 (about 430 MB each, with French, English, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch) and a smaller update installer for existing systems. Install it on the machine that will act as the server; staff then connect from their browsers.
• Ubuntu 22 or 24: extract the Ubuntu 24 package into /opt, go to the openclinic folder and run ./setup. The system is then reachable at http://server_ip_address:10088/openclinic. A restart script is placed in /opt/openclinic.
• Older Linux: a separate package covers Ubuntu 16–20 and Debian 9–10, and another CentOS/Red Hat 7 and 8 (both from 2021).
• Small hardware: the release folder also contains prebuilt images for Raspberry Pi 3B+ (2020) and ASUS Tinkerboard S (2022).
• Database: SourceForge lists MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server via JDBC. Plan regular database backups from day one.
• Gotchas: the packages are large (around 500 MB for Linux), the English user manual dates from 2010, and configuring billing, insurers and user roles takes real time. Post-Factum offers implementation support if you need help.

Limitations

• No dental module: no odontogram, periodontal charting or tooth-based treatment planning.
• Insurance billing is built around the schemes the developer lists (Central and East Africa, Peru); there is no documented support for dental insurance claims in the US, UK or Canada.
• Activity is low: the last Windows release is from 2023 and the last code commit from March 2024.
• Documentation is thin and partly old; much of the learning happens by exploring a test installation.
• It is a server application. Someone has to maintain the server, backups, updates and user accounts.
• The developer makes no regulatory clearance claims for the software.

OpenClinic GA vs alternatives

Choose OpenClinic GA for a whole-hospital system with a dental clinic as one department; a stand-alone dental practice needs dedicated dental software.

FAQ

Where do I get the OpenClinic GA download?

Official installers, Linux packages and documentation are published on the OpenClinic GA project page on SourceForge. The software itself costs nothing to download or use.

Is OpenClinic GA free?

Yes. It is open source (LGPL v2 on SourceForge, GPL-2.0 in the Digital Public Goods registry) and the developer advertises unlimited free usage. Implementation support is sold separately by Post-Factum.

Is there an OpenClinic GA demo?

The official project page does not list a public demo server. The practical way to evaluate it is a test installation on a spare PC, a virtual machine or a Raspberry Pi image.

What is the OpenClinic GA login and password?

We do not publish credentials. In an existing hospital installation, accounts are issued by the system administrator; on a new installation, create named accounts for every user and do not leave shared default logins in place.

Where is the OpenClinic GA documentation or manual?

The Documentation folder on SourceForge has English, French and Spanish material, including an ADT user manual, technical documentation and a guide to compiling the source in Eclipse.

How do I install OpenClinic GA on Ubuntu?

Extract the Ubuntu 24 package into /opt, run ./setup from the openclinic folder, then open http://server_ip_address:10088/openclinic in a browser.

Does OpenClinic GA have a dental module?

No. It can handle a dental department’s registration, appointments, coded diagnoses, billing, imaging results and pharmacy, but not tooth charting.

Is OpenClinic GA the same as OpenClinic?

No. OpenClinic GA is the Java-based hospital system by Frank Verbeke; an older PHP project called OpenClinic is a different program.

Last checked against official sources: 28 September 2026 (developer website: sourceforge.net). Versions and licence terms change — confirm on the developer's site before deploying in a clinic.