Open Practice was founded in 2005 with the mission of developing a web-based practice management and medical billing application based fully on open standards. Unlike legacy systems that are rigid, complex, expensive, and proprietary, OpenPM was written to be flexible, easy to use, cost-effective, and fully compliant with industry standards. Open standards based technology reduces the cost and risk of implementation and promotes the kind of interoperability that is needed in healthcare today. OpenPM is written in Java to provide write once, run anywhere flexibility, and makes practice management available on-demand – accessible via your Internet browser.