Custom development & architecture
Build or refine OpenEMR features, modules, and workflows with maintainability and upgrade paths in mind.
OpenEMR development · United States
OpenEMR expertise.
From the inside.
I’m Jerry Padgett, an OpenEMR principal developer for eight years and former project administrator. I help practices and product teams build, integrate, and improve OpenEMR with an engineer who knows the platform at its core.
40+ years engineering experience · OpenEMR contributor since 2015
A CONNECTED CLINICAL PLATFORM01 / JP
Engineering at the coreOpenEMR
Patient experiencePortals & communications
InteroperabilityFHIR & C-CDA
Clinical workflowsQuestionnaires & SDC
Platform reliabilityMaintenance & modernization
8 yearsprincipal developer for OpenEMR
2019–2026project administrator
40+ yearsengineering experience
How I can help
Make OpenEMR work
for your workflow.
Experienced engineering support for practices, software teams, and organizations extending OpenEMR.
FHIR, APIs & clinical exchange
FHIR R4, SMART and OAuth2 integrations, API troubleshooting, C-CDA, and clinical data exchange.
Portal & communications
Patient portal workflows, messaging, registration, payments, fax, SMS, and email capabilities.
Structured clinical workflows
Questionnaire Manager and FHIR Structured Data Capture assessments with patient and encounter context.
Weno eRx module
Module development and ongoing maintenance of OpenEMR’s Weno e-prescribing integration.
Certification & troubleshooting
Clinical quality, C-CDA, QRDA, eCQM, code review, production issue investigation, and modernization.
Selected OpenEMR contributions
Experience grounded
in the code.
A selection from more than a decade of building, maintaining, and supporting OpenEMR.
Principal developer for OpenEMR
Eight years of technical leadershipGuided core engineering across patient care, interoperability, certification, billing, imaging, communications, platform reliability, and release delivery.
Patient portal & experience
Principal architect and authorArchitected and built portal capabilities spanning scheduling, secure messaging, registration, online payments, forms, documents, C-CDA access, and responsive redesigns.
FHIR integration & API Explorer
Interoperability engineeringCompleted FHIR write integration for supported clinical data and developed API Explorer capabilities for OAuth2, PKCE, client credentials, JWT clients, refresh tokens, and scope-driven resources.
Questionnaire Manager & FHIR SDC
Structured clinical workflowsCompleted Questionnaire Manager and replaced LForms with the FHIR SDC runtime, supporting availability rules and assessments in patient and encounter context.
Certification & clinical quality
ONC · C-CDA · QRDA · eCQMLed and co-authored clinical quality measure certification work and continued C-CDA modernization, eCQM/QRDA updates, validation, and certification maintenance.
Weno, Fax/SMS and email modules
Module development & maintenanceDeveloper and maintainer of the Weno eRx module and OpenEMR’s Fax/SMS and email module, integrating prescribing and communications into clinical workflows.
Institutional care & revenue cycle
Billing · inpatient · home careContributed institutional billing, UB-04/837I, Billing Manager, and institutional-care workflows across ED/observation, inpatient, assisted living, and home-based care.
Usage telemetry
Feature design · implementation · maintenance · 2025Designed, developed, and managed OpenEMR usage tracking, including asynchronous menu click event collection, backend processing, and database support. The work was proposed in March 2025 and merged as PR #8194 on April 26, 2025 ↗.
Imaging & platform reliability
DICOM · modernization · supportEngineering contributor to the DICOM viewer, with ongoing work in performance, security, module infrastructure, Windows compatibility, and production issue response.
Recent work descriptions reflect the contribution record through October 2026; availability and implementation scope depend on the OpenEMR version and deployment.
Explore merged contributions on GitHub ↗About
I’m Jerry Padgett.
I bring more than 40 years of engineering experience and over a decade of sustained OpenEMR contribution. My work crosses clinical, patient-facing, interoperability, billing, and platform layers.
As former project administrator, I reviewed and integrated community work, helped stabilize releases, guided contributors, and responded to production issues.
2015–presentOpenEMR core contributor
Development, reviews, release support, and community guidance.
Development, reviews, release support, and community guidance.
2017–2019OpenEMR integrator
Integrated community contributions into the core project.
Integrated community contributions into the core project.
2019–2026OpenEMR project administrator
Integration, maintenance, and contributor support.
Integration, maintenance, and contributor support.
CertificationONC certification project leadership
Lead C-CDA/CQM development and clinical quality engineering.
Lead C-CDA/CQM development and clinical quality engineering.
CommunityTechnical education and mentoring
FHIR mentorship and presentations on forms, C-CDA, and the patient portal.
FHIR mentorship and presentations on forms, C-CDA, and the patient portal.
Let’s work on it
What do you need
OpenEMR to do?
Tell me about your workflow, integration, or technical challenge. Include your OpenEMR version and preferred timeline. Please don’t include patient information in an initial inquiry.
sjpadgett@gmail.com ↗Southwest Florida · United StatesOpenEMR project ↗ · Professional Support profile ↗