Dr. Sam Bowen

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  • Dr. Sam Bowen's details
    • Title: President
    • Company: Open Source Medical Software
  • Dr. Sam Bowen's presentations
    • The Development and Growth of the OpenEMR Project

  Dr. Samuel Bowen has substantial training and experience in primary care, urgent care, emergency, and occupational care environments. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Rice University in Houston, Texas and his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Bowen is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Bowen established his first medical practice in Cornelius, N.C. in 1987 and served as company physician for many of the local industries. His largest contract was with Ingersoll Rand, serving as the company physician for the Small Compressor Division, Large Compressor Division and International Corporate Office.

  Dr. Bowen relocated to Hickory, N.C. in 1992 and served as an emergency room physician at Frye Regional Medical Center until January 1999. He established Bowen Primary & Urgent Care in 1998 and is currently on staff at Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, N.C. Dr. Bowen’s other interests include computer programming, which prompted his involvement in developing free, open source software. He began using OpenEMR in his practice, Bowen Primary & Urgent Care, in January 2004 and has been involved in the development process. He has been an active contributor to forums involving free open source medical software. He has helped many physicians and IT professionals learn how to install and operate OpenEMR. He has contributed clinical forms to OpenEMR and released them to the public under the GPL licensing. Dr. Bowen has been involved in the OpenEMR project since 2003. He serves as President of the not-for-profit Open Source Medical Software and is the webmaster of both the home web pages for openmedsoftware.org and the OpenEMR project. He also writes and maintains the current documentation for the installation and use of OpenEMR.