OSCAR McMaster is a web-based electronic medical record (EMR) system initially developed for academic primary care clinics.
It has grown into a comprehensive EMR and billing system used by many doctor's offices and private medical clinics in Canada and other parts of the world.
Since December 1, 2005, OSCAR McMaster has received successive certifications by OntarioMD under the Physician IT Program.
[3] On September 30, 2012, OSCAR McMaster v12 product received Pre-implementation Certification for Jurisdiction Class, Laboratory and Clinical Documents, Electronic Medical Record.
Certain OSPs employ full-time development staff to maintain the code and to include proprietary features for their clients so end user physician can be locked into a particular provider although the basic code is open source.