Medical is an open source project which goal is to provide an universal Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Hospital Information System (HIS), so doctors and institutions all over the world, independently of their economic status, will benefit from a centralized, high quality, secure and scalable system. Medical maximizes collaboration between health professionals and institutions, making emphasis on primary health care concepts. It uses industry standards in order to produce valid statistical data for epidemiological research, as well as to export the patient data.

Medical development framework is OpenERP, the leader open source ERP. OpenERP provides the environment to develop the EMR / HIS as a community, and to localize Medical to any country or region. The Medical data model has been designed so it can be used at hospitals, because it links the objects to the ERP functionality, such as reservations, financial management or supply chain management.