From AMA News: October 10, 2005
CMS takes baby step toward EMR network
The government is testing an electronic medical record based on a system
used by the VA. The system will not be free to doctors.
The grand plans of the Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services to
create a national health
part II/III
...
Testing stage
VistA-Office is one of the pieces in a large puzzle that the federal
government is assembling to realize the Bush administration's 10-year
goal of implementing a national health information network and
electronic records for most Americans.
EMRs would be used by,
Nancy Anthracite wrote:
I spoke with a physician yesterday who wants to try installing FOIA VistA
because he can't get his hands on VOE. He said that VOE is a hot topic of
discussion at his hospital and that 100% of the docs are convinced that VOE
is not being released because Big Business
How about moving the next OpenVistA conference to New Orleans?
1. It would be a bold stroke, but not necessarily foolhardy.
2. We could benefit from VistA's recent successes during Katrina at the
VA and in shelters.
3. There are opportunities in the need for new infrastructure throughout
the
Ruben Safir wrote:
On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 18:24, Dr Molly Cheah wrote:
Why not convert to mp3 files and podcast it?
Molly
Because you need a license for the mp3 format, you get sued and then it
sucks.
Use an ogg vorbis format please and let the mindless ipod drones learn
to adjust or
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to provide a standard for station
numbers that can be generalized beyond the VA?. I had hoped that world
vista's open forum might serve that function.
Maybe the station number needs to be modified (with a alpha prefix
perhaps) to identify the side as VA vs Private
It's down again this morning.
Nancy Anthracite wrote:
For those of you who may have had trouble connecting, it is up again.
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Todd Berman wrote:
The other key thing to keep in mind is that a piece of software and
code released under and opensource license is useless.
What is useful is a open development model and community driven
efforts. Without those, you have a giant hunk of unmaintained code
that stagnates and
Nancy Anthracite wrote:
Samuel has been good enough to send me his documentation. It is in Word
documents, some of which can be converted to text files and some with screen
captures, so it will be a bit before I figure out exactly how to get it on
the wiki, unless I can just post the files
Thanks for your contribution, Samuel.
I have put up the first section of your guide on the wiki
(watch the word wrap)
http://openforum.worldvista.org/~forum/index.php?title=Installation_How_To_VistA_GT.M_Linux#Samuel_Fontanez.27_Installation_Guide
I have not taken much care with the formating,
Wendell Murray wrote:
I'm not privy to the whatever machinations might exist behind the scenes at
HHS in regard to the release of VOE. The important fact is that it has been
released and people can start doing things with it.
The fact is it hasn't been released.
Todd Berman wrote:
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 10:33 -0700, Greg Woodhouse wrote:
I don't think that follows. Being available through FOIA doesn't imply
a GPL style license.
FOIA implies public domain. That is do anything you want with it.
...and excludes GPL.
My understanding from previous threads
Jim Self wrote:
I enjoyed your explanation of this one and was pleasantly surprised to see
that it
actually seemed relevant to the list. ;)
Maybe it's just the way I think about software (or computing in
general), but I'm a big fan of simplicity and elegance.
Sometimes less is more
Todd Berman wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 11:53 -0400, Nancy Anthracite wrote:
I have sent Wendell a message suggesting that we have a telephone
conversation
to tell him about VistA and VistA-Office.
Out of curiosity, because I have seen this sort of message for you about
the same 2 or
I think this is exactly right. And fairly inevitable, given the
proliferation of multigigabyte personal devices. The concept will be
applicable to our cell phones, palm devices, iPods, laptops... and maybe
toaster ovens. Expect to see billfold standards to emerge that will
store many things in a
Gregory Woodhouse wrote:
Gee...I thought that was a private response. I guess now everyone knows
what I really think.
No harm done,
Gregory, everyone always knows what you think.
Please continue not concealing your take on the truth.
:-)
A hero is no braver than an ordinary
man, but he is
Thurman Pedigo wrote:
If you see any helpful - objective stuff (without interest conflict) - I
would appreciate posting a link that I can reference. Already, I posted the
Computer World link and another Federal tech link. I post these just as
What others are saying without giving a personal
jae kim wrote:
Hi,
Just joined the list. I am interested in building VistA for humanitarian
purposes so I can help local free clinics, meaning no money to fund
this effort.
Where's local, jae?
I am preparing to install in a community health center in Iowa.
I'm familiar with
Animesh, someone smarter (i.e. Nancy) will interfere if I'm wrong.
The request for Access Code at this point in the proceedings is a new
thing added to the most recent releases. It wants to know who's messing
with it.
Try this:
enter S DUZ=1 before
D Q^DI
That should get you started as User #1
Thurman Pedigo wrote:
This story IS legend, reported over and over. My recollections it made
headlines when it occurred - not that long ago.
Not an urban legend but LEGENDARY (and one of the forces behind the
FDA's entry into the software as medical device arena)
Some of the most widely cited
smcphelan wrote:
... If you look at the
larger VA sites they will have the globals partitioned over 15 - 30 virtual
volume sets spreading the IO out over multiple spindles and disk
controllers.
I would be very interested in a concrete description of how this is
worked out at an actual
Thurman Pedigo wrote:
Anyone ever wonder what VistA (AND EHR) could have been if all the Medical
Schools had gotten behind it instead of playing KING OF THE HILL?
Oh, Thurman, you old trouble-maker.
How about this one:
Has anyone noticed the coolness, even prejudice toward VistA within the
Ken Stone wrote:
Ken, since you are in med school, I would recommend that you take whatever
anyone says about any EHR with a grain of salt. You should investigate
yourself the pros and cons.
I've been exceeding my daily sodium allowance for a while now, thanks.
I love it, Ken!
Feet
Historically, DHCP used Hewlett Packard PCL. (See the many variations on
P-HP*** in the TERMINAL TYPE FILE). As you point out, it doesn't
translate smoothly to the Linux environment.
K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
FWIW, I would advise against sending escape sequences or PCL directly to
a printer - makes
Chris Richardson wrote:
... The Koreans did publish the results of one benchmark
they did in one of the Last MUG Quarterlies. The results were astounding.
Same hardware, same load, same task took the relationals 6 hours or more to
complete. MUMPS took something less than one hour to
THIS IS NOT A DRILL !
:-)
The community health center here in Council Bluffs Iowa will
implement an EHR for our clinic. Grandpa Zimmer was yesterday given
responsibility for the choice of system and its success. My executive
director assures me of funding to do the job right. I hope to see a
Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
Zimmer,
A couple of thoughts come to mind:
1. Are you planning to have separate billing software and EHR?
[jlz] I plan to implement the EHR (Problem List, ICD, pharmacy, Vitals,
in VistA while the legacy business system does registration, and
billing and passes
Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
...I created a one-step scripting system for
configuration. But then I got my system configured so
I didn't acutely need it. And no one seemed
interested in working out the kinks. So it sits on my
computer.
And on mine.
It's not dead yet, Kevin.
This answer has been on the Wiki for a week now! :-)
cf. http://openforum.worldvista.org/~forum/index.php?title=CPRS_Versions
(I also did a little cleanup and warned the user to use Konqueror, not
Mozilla, for accessing ftp.va.gov.)
I think once a question gets asked a couple times, the
Nancy Anthracite wrote:
Actually, the place I want to post it is with the list of CPRS versions at the
beginning of the CPRS installation page...
Oops,
I did not see the duplication. I guess I need to plot out a map of the twisty
little passages
...but I can log in OK and still not
get past
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/quality/pfqi.asp#Contract
CMS, through the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care as its contractor to
support the VistA-Office EHR project, has established WorldVistA as a
vendor support organization to provide vendor training on VistA-Office
EHR. WorldVistAs mission is to
Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
The function can be cut and pasted from the wikki:
http://openforum.worldvista.org/~forum/index.php?title=DTFormat_--_an_extension_to_%24%24FMTE%5EXLFDT
GTM
GTMw $$DTFormat(DT,..dd)
%GTM-E-LABELMISSING, Label referenced but not defined: DTFormat
GTMw
smcphelan wrote:
And how are you going to adhere to HIPAA with your printing? As I
understand it, an audit record needs to be keep for each print out.
smcphelan,
Can you give a reference for this assertion?
I don't doubt that someone has made the statement,
but we have seen many things
I have been chewing on Bhaskar's install/run/erase script for months
now. I need to run it in a non-X environment (colinux, for example). So
I have been converting it from Xdialog to dialog and learning some Bash
along the way.
This week I have cleared up a couple of my long-standing bugs and
Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
How about this. Each office have its own server, and
patient's would have their own IEN's and notes would
have their own IEN's. For patients that are seen in
my office 99% of the time, they would go into my
server. For patients that are seen in the other
office, they
Francis beat me to the punch. A simple patient photo is a very handy
thing to have in the medical record. (Needs to be easily obtained, and
easily displayed, and printable.)
Kevin may just be having fun with his Delphi skills. Not a bad way to
stay out of trouble, I say.
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off by
the expensive lessons that will be learned yet again. We need those few
icebreaker implementations to do well enough that the world takes notice.
IF #2, look elsewhere for the future.
IF #3, just watch us.
jlz
born at the right time
JohnLeo Zimmer wrote:
Quoting Steve Shreeve's words
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