DescriptMED Free Version - Still Free

 The program will offer the following features:

• SOAP Notes
• Patient Demographics
• Referral Phone Book
• Phone Book
• Record Viewer
  
• Reminders
• Office Mail
  
• Prescription Writing
• Response (Correspondence) Section w/ Limited Templates
• Cover Sheet with Health Maintenance, Acute/Chronic Problems and Rx History
  
• Problem List
• Administrative Form Viewer to view scanned forms e.g. jpeg, bmp, tiff, pdf
  
• MySQL Database Management System
• Unlimited Users
  
• No Patient Limits
  
• No Support - Support will be billed if support is needed
  

Terry, how do you avoid paying a license for each of these free versions for mysql?

Astute question - if DescriptMED is not GPL, nor an OSI approved license then they would have to purchase an OEM Commercial License (as far as I know which is not far).

gchiu:

Terry, how do you avoid paying a license for each of these free versions for mysql?

 

According to the MySQL Team that I deal with, you are absolutely correct. I also understand from them that you only have to pay a fee if your program requires MySQL.   The DescriptMED program, The Chart!, is also able to use MS SQL database via SQL Server Express, therefore it is not dependent on MySQL.   Another thing, you cannot distribute MySQL as a part of an install package.   DescriptMED does not do that.

For clarity sake , DescriptMED has paid many a license fee to MySQL to date, until the MS SQL version became available.   

R Terry Ellis:

The DescriptMED program, The Chart!, is also able to use MS SQL database via SQL Server Express, therefore it is not dependent on MySQL.  

Solid list of DB choices, NICE !