How's this?
http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/1092005186/index_html
On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 18:35:59 -0400
K.S. Bhaskar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, please publicize this as widely as possible for maximum
exposure.
Remember we want all who may be interested to know about it.
-- Bhaskar
Per Will Ross on the amia OSWG list and as a result now on Linux
Medical News
http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/1106068472/index_html:
This is a reminder for anyone who has not heard about the Software RFP
available for the Phoenix Practice Management (PhoenixPM) software
project. The
If there is no Wiki for VistA, then I've created a ZWiki page for
VistA here:
http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/vista
Please feel free to use it. Linux Medical News is unlikely to go away
soon so the hosting for this should continue for quite a long time.
Any content placed in it is
Oops! Oh well, a wiki has already been done. Sorry Dave. -- IV
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Subject: VistA Community Documentation Wiki (was) Greetings Hardhats
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Wiki!
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:31:05 -0500
From: Joseph Dal Molin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Hello all,
Unfortunately I will not be able to attend the Boston meeting. I would
like to deputize someone to report on the meeting for the
approximately 20,000 visitors/week Linux Medical News readers. Editing
support by myself is provided. Please contact me off list if you would
like to
, new logo combination and product suggestions to my e-mail
are welcome.
Thanks to John Norris for making this happen. Sincerely,
-- Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS
-- Editor: Linux Medical news, JOSMC
-- http://www.linuxmednews.com
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Linux Medical News is 5 years old as of yesterday. It all began with
http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/954458835/index_html the
first posting. Since that time, there have been 970 posted articles, a
great deal of editing, and millions of visitors. Has the landscape
changed much since
As many as 98,000 people die each year as a result of preventable
medical errors which Free and Open Source electronic medical records
software could reduce. A contender in this area is the Veterans
Administration (VA) public domain VistA codebase and large community.
In a major advance for
Hello all,
With the gracious help of Nancy Anthracite and without benefit of
actually attending the Boston meeting, I have created this summary of
the meeting:
http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/1113172411/index_html
If there are major announcements and discussions that I did not
Would that be Mac OS X? -- IV
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:31:29 -0400
Nancy Anthracite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ignacio, I think it will be ported to the MAC, not Oracle. At the
meeting I
heard two programmers had done it a few years ago and no longer
have their
code, so the hope is to do it
This just in on LMN: http://www.linuxmednews.com/1114090027 Why has
Ontario, Canada chosen to link their Smart Systems for Health Agency
to the proprietary .NET technologies? I recently was perusing the
website for the Ontario, Canada Smart Health initiative and noticed
that a lot of the job
-To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
VistA is Public Domain, not Open Source, always has been, always (at
least
should) will be.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Ignacio
Valdes
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 4:38 PM
To: hardhats-members
This just in from Dan Johnson, MD:
'Open-Source VistA to emerge in 2005
First, this is not an announcement, in the sense of Grand Hoopla. It
is news that a door is creaking open: The Wisconsin QIO (Quality
Improvement Organization; formerly known as a PRO - Professional
Review Organization),
On Entrepreneurial Seizures in Health Care
'...So many in the past have had a health IT entrepreneurial seizure.
A health IT entrepreneurial seizure can summed up with the following
phrase: 'We'll get a bunch of money and some great programmers, go to
work, and after a few years, show these
There is now a health record available on the Internet for 'every
American at no cost' called iHealth Record which is supposedly
endorsed by many major medical societies. A tour is available
http://www.ihealthrecord.org/tour.html According to the FAQ: '..The
iHealthRecord does not sell
Nearly $1 million Awarded to WorldVistA for Vendor Training
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today
that WorldVistA has been named '...as a vendor support organization to
provide vendor training on VistA-Office EHR' But what does it all
mean? We spoke with
piece of work that would require an
established vendor and many other parts. If you are serious about
participating in this, please read the RFP first, then contact me
offline as soon as possible as there are only a few weeks to get a
proposal together.
Thanks!
Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS
Editor
Nominations are officially open for the 5th annual Linux Medical News
Freedom (formerly Achievement) Award to be presented at the October
22nd-26th AMIA Fall conference in Washington, D.C. Deadline for
entries is July 30th, 2005. Currently this is NOT a officially
sponsored event of AMIA. Free
I have just now created a Grants subject heading on Linux Medical News
http://www.linuxmednews.com that anyone can post too. Staying vigilant
and populating this subject heading reliabily and accurately is a
problem for me alone with my current workload. I will probably miss
many announcements
The Health and Human Services Department plans an open-source
set-aside for one of the six contracts it wants to award for
prototypes of a Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). More
details and link:
http://www.linuxmednews.com/1120669316/index_html
are
already 'pinned down' in pending RFP's. -- IV
On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:22:26 -0500
Ignacio Valdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree, this is the proverbial 'it' for FOSS in healthcare. There
are many millions of dollars at stake here. -- IV
On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:33:36 -0400
Alric M
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More grant RFP's are out. These are for Rural Health Information
Networks. The first one is to: ''...Support development of rural
health networks. Grant funds are used to support activities that
strengthen the organizational
Is anyone working on a VistA HL7 v3 records import/export? -- IV
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Uversa has decided to reply to the recent ONCHIT RFP regarding an open
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Network. We need volunteers to commit different types of healthcare
facilties to receiving and sending secure patient data from this
network. So far the
Wow, I just checked the statistics for visits to Linux Medical News
this month and they are way up. Highest search term on LMN: VistA
Office.
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September 19th, 2005 CMS released an 'evaluation version' of the
highly anticipated Vista Office EHR (VOE) according to a CMS website
press release. Highlights of the press release are that apparently CMS
is going to evaluate how implementations are working at a limited
number of beta test
Hi all, I just wanted to let everyone know that the VistA Panel
discussion and B. Lord's demo for this year's Fall AMIA in Wash D.C.
October 25th at 10:30am location to be announced was featured in an
e-mail to sent out to all AMIA members. I think they are going to be
very well attended. --
Hello all, I'm preparing for next weeks panel discussion at amia.org's
fall conference on Deploying VistA. I'm doing the Public Policy part
in keeping with the conference theme. I have a bunch of stuff already,
but does anyone have a history of VistA from a legislative angle?
Major dates and
In these days where one increasingly has to take personal
responsibility for appropriate medical coverage, Intuit's Quicken
Medical Expense Manager fills the bill. While not an Open Source
product by any means, it does take a different perspective...the
patient's. Many of the projects covered
The December 2005 issue of the journal Pediatrics has a report that
found a coincident increase in mortality after implementing a
'Commercially Sold' Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) system.
The increased mortality may have been due to delays in medication and
IV administration in
? It is important to ask the question given the United States rich
history of failure and two notable successes with large scale Health
IT.
Read the full article at
http://www.linuxmednews.com/1134404398/index_html
-- Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS
-- Editor: Linux Medical News
-- http://www.linuxmednews.com
P.S
case I have changed 'interoperability protocol' to 'messaging
standard'. I've also changed the UI paragraph slightly to emphasize
that I'm referring to the user interface, not the data layer.
Again, thank you very much for your insightful interest and comment.
-- Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS
-- Editor
Dr. Omar El Hattab was a Cancer Epidemiologist at the National Cancer
Institute, Cairo University, Egypt. He was responsible for getting
DHCP (the precursor to VistA) installed at his cancer institutes. In
order to help Linux Medical News readers understand the challenges he
faced in setting
In a Hospital Connect editorial, Delaware senator Tom Carper has
endorsed the Veterans Affairs VistA software as a reference model for
a national standard EHR: ...Efforts are underway within the federal
government to ensure that all health care providers will be able to
use IT in a uniform
iHealth and Technology brings you a Forrester Whitepaper: Open Source
Software Primer for Health Care Leaders. While not heralding the end
of commercial software vendors, the report concludes that conditions
are ripe for open source solutions to take root in health care, and
that it will
David Brailer has resigned. MSNBC is reporting that 'Dr David Brailer,
the man charged by President Bush with ensuring that half of all
Americans have a portable electronic health record within a decade, is
to step down two years after taking on the job...' This is a
tremendous loss for the
I personally found him to be all over the map in his speeches and he
seemed to be taking positions that appeared to be doomed to failure
from a technology standpoint. My favorite was in an interview where he
said something to the effect of: we're not going to enforce standards,
but everything
Cindy was Linux Medical News ace reporter for four years before she
passed on. Despite some quirks such as thinking everyone was a
Chihuahua, she had a true talent for getting the inside track for
important meetings and being around powerful people in the Free and
Open Source Software in
Has there been any work of any kind integrating a Customer
Relationship Management (CRM) system such as Sugar-CRM or Salesforce
with VistA? Thanks!
-- IV
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Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
Get
All,
In moving the hardhats list to other environments: One thing to
consider is that currently the Plone community http://www.plone.org
which creates the software that runs the worldvista.org website is in
a frenzy of activity to create some great foruming software called
PloneBoard.
The reprters of Linux Medical News never make theze mstakes and
therefore do not supher from this problem :-)
-- Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS
-- Editor: Linux Medical News
-- http://www.linuxmednews.com
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 22:34:37 -0700
Ben Mehling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As anyone that's
Hello all, Has anyone done Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
software integration with VistA such as integration with something
like Sugar-CRM or Salesforce?
Thanks!
-- IV
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Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web
I'm wondering if the VA's Java efforts and this new kid: the Eclipse
Open Healthcare Framework (OHF) are going to have anything to do with
each other?
http://www.linuxmednews.com/1148373684/index_html
-- IV
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Using Tomcat but need to do
According to this Evans Data Corporation survey, the number of Linux
developers and Windows developers will be equal by the end of the year
2006. This development was noted by LinuxToday editor's: '...With its
dominant adoption rate, Apache may be doing more for the cause of open
source
Nominations are officially open for the 6th annual Linux Medical News
Freedom Award to be presented at the November 11th-15th AMIA Fall
conference in Washington, D.C. Deadline for entries is July 30th,
2006. This is NOT a officially sponsored event of AMIA. Free and open
source software isn't
Hello all,
I received a request from a Linux Medical News reader from Spain
asking about a spanish version of VistA. Does one exist or is it in
progress?
-- IV
Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to
Hello all,
I have need to have Python/Zope/Plone and MUMPS/GT.M/VistA to be able
to interact (ie exchange or use each others data). Probably this will
be through xmlrpc but any way that works is fine. If you've done this
before or know how to do this and/or can develop and can teach me how
it
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Dr. Valdes,
Where can I find information on
purchasing the VistA-Office EMR software?
Thank you.
Dr. Daniel Yacono
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