PIMS (Practice Information Management System)
A veterinary PIMS, or practice information management system, is the software that runs a clinic day to day: scheduling, medical records, billing, inventory, and client communication in one place.
PIMS stands for practice information management system. In veterinary medicine it is the central software a practice runs on. It holds your appointments, patient records, invoices, inventory, and client messages, and ties them together so the whole team works from the same information.
People also call it veterinary practice management software, or just the practice management system. The terms mean the same thing.
What a PIMS usually includes
- Scheduling and the appointment calendar
- Medical records, including SOAP notes, labs, and prescriptions
- Billing, estimates, and invoices
- Inventory and dispensing
- Client communication and reminders
- Reporting on how the practice is doing
PIMS products differ in how open they are. Most are closed and proprietary, which means your data lives in a format only the vendor controls. OpenVPM is an open-source PIMS, so the code and the data schema are public and you can run it yourself.
See how OpenVPM does it
OpenVPM is the open-source veterinary PIMS. Free to self-host, with an open API and your data always exportable. The demo is live, no signup.