Resources
Guides to the EMRs Canadian family practices run on.
Written by the team building AI inside Med Access and Oscar-based EMRs, for the clinicians who work in them every day.
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EMR guides
What is OSCAR EMR?
One open-source foundation, many vendors, and a lot of confusion about which is which. Here is the map for Canadian family practices, and the one structural fact that shapes every clinic day on all of them.
Updated July 2026 -
EMR guides
What is OSCAR Pro?
If your clinic is on OSCAR, the odds are you are on OSCAR Pro. It is the largest of the variants by some distance, and the one most people mean when they say OSCAR.
Updated July 2026 -
EMR guides
What is Juno EMR?
Juno sells itself on hosting and integrations. That is the right thing to care about, as long as you ask what a given integration does once it is connected.
Updated July 2026 -
EMR guides
What is Avaros EMR?
Avaros is a newer front end on an old and well understood foundation, and it ships AI of its own. Both facts matter if you are deciding what else you need.
Updated July 2026 -
EMR guides
Med Access, and the templates that run it
Med Access is the most configurable EMR most Canadian family doctors will use. That configurability is the reason it fits your practice, and the reason charting takes as long as it does.
Updated July 2026