Re: [Hardhats-members] CONTRACT AWARDED TO VistA-Office EHR VENDOR SUPPORT ORGANIZATION

2005-05-20 Thread Nancy Anthracite
I am delighted to see this as this will advance the VistA community's effort to provide documention and training. Many of those things that we all have been trying to do with only volunteers and can now be done with some of us being paid to help! I am sure the vast majority of the effort

Re: [Hardhats-members] CONTRACT AWARDED TO VistA-Office EHR VENDOR SUPPORT ORGANIZATION

2005-05-20 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
I couldn't agree more with Nancy! Nancy Anthracite wrote: I am delighted to see this as this will advance the VistA community's effort to provide documention and training. Many of those things that we all have been trying to do with only volunteers and can now be done with some of us being

Re: [Hardhats-members] CONTRACT AWARDED TO VistA-Office EHR VENDOR SUPPORT ORGANIZATION

2005-05-20 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I know VA and HHS are not the same, but the existence of a contract such as this raises disturbing questions for federal employees, does it not? Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 20, 2005, at 5:59 AM, Nancy Anthracite wrote:I am delighted to see this as this will advance the VistA

Re: [Hardhats-members] CONTRACT AWARDED TO VistA-Office EHR VENDOR SUPPORT ORGANIZATION

2005-05-20 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Greg -- Would you explain, please? Thanx muchly. -- Bhaskar Gregory Woodhouse wrote: I know VA and HHS are not the same, but the existence of a contract such as this raises disturbing questions for federal employees, does it not? Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Hardhats-members] CONTRACT AWARDED TO VistA-Office EHR VENDOR SUPPORT ORGANIZATION

2005-05-20 Thread Greg Woodhouse
The point is that it's a *contract* not a grant. This could potentially mean that the federal government would be paying for support provided by its own employees. --- K.S. Bhaskar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg -- Would you explain, please? Thanx muchly. -- Bhaskar Gregory Woodhouse

Re: [Hardhats-members] CONTRACT AWARDED TO VistA-Office EHR VENDOR SUPPORT ORGANIZATION

2005-05-20 Thread Maury Pepper
On behalf of the WorldVistA board of directors, I would like to express our thanks to all the individuals and organizations that contributed their time, knowledge and skills over the past few years. Your efforts directly contributed to WorldVistA's success in winning the VVSO contract. This

[Hardhats-members] CONTRACT AWARDED TO VistA-Office EHR VENDOR SUPPORT ORGANIZATION

2005-05-19 Thread JohnLeo Zimmer
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