Hi. James? I was CTO of Pennington Firm in that era and it was one of many industries where "internet modernization" was happening to a sort of sleepy status quo. OpenEMR with FreeB were the furthest along open source project at the time and so we started there. There were a lot of legacy type problems inherent in the OpenEMR codebase and I think the change to PHP 3 ultimately is what lead to starting fresh with ClearHealth. I'm dating myself but that's around the time that browser AJAX starting opening up a lot of UI possibilities.
Howdy! Nope, I'm one of the two Matts from the Synitech, the original publishers. IIRC the codebase as we left it was heavily into iframes. iframes and SQL injection attack surface.
I'm not sure it used CSS :-p in 2001 or 2002 I actually did a lot of systems work building a version of OpenEMR which booted from CDROM but wrote the database to an attached USB storage device. The idea was that small offices had to start thinking about HIPAA compliance, and could take the disks home from their server each evening for improved security. I think that was probably the last thing I was working on in OpenEMR.
