Licensing

Synapse EMR will be available under a dual license.

Shareware - everyone understands this concept, but in brief, you are free to download and trial this software.  However, if you wish to use it ( in your practice), you must pay a fee.  Normally this fee is fixed, and does not take into account the differences in economies between first world countries and emerging countries.  We do however recognize this, and are fixing the monthly fee at whatever your gross fee is for a patient follow up.  So, for instance, if your average fee in India is US$1.10 for a routine consultation, then you owe us US$1.10 a month.  If, however, you practice in the USA, and your routine consultation fee is US$50, then you owe us US$50 a month.

Workware - in exchange for the use of Synapse EMR, we will instead accept some micro work as payment.  This work should be equivalent in time to the time spent on a routine consultation, and should in some way help the Synapse community.  This non-exclusive list includes:

• sending in new bug reports ( with comprehensive instructions on how to reproduce the bug )
• answering questions for assistance on this or other forums discussing Synapse EMR
• suggesting new functionality with sufficient detail to implement it
• creating new documentation here on the wiki where there are deficiencies
• creating videos on how you use Synapse and making these available
• creating templates and sharing them
• creating chronic disease views and sharing them
• creating PDF forms and sharing them
• translating existing documentation to another language
•  blogging on your experience with Synapse

So, if your routine consultation takes 15 minutes, we ask for 30 seconds per day, or 15 minutes of your time per month in one of above tasks.

You need to seek prior approval for the workware license as previously users have specified that they wanted to use the workware option but then have never delivered on the work.