VA Software Could Help Establish Affordable EHR Systems
WorldwideNovember 22,
2004Open-source software
based on the Department of Veterans Affairs' VistA system
could be a "low-cost building block" for a nationwide electronic health record
system, Federal Computer
Week reports. The
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David Derauf wrote:
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| VA Software Could Help Establish Affordable EHR Systems Worldwide
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Good momentum building here.
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| The VistA-Office software is available for free, but physicians will
| have to pay a license fee to use programming language
Not invited, yetbecause GT.M is not a supported platform in the VA
therfore it was not an option under the current arrangements but
this is only short term IMHO. The WorldVistA community, which is now on
the radar at last, will definitely port VistAOfficeEHR to a full open
source
OpenVistA (VistA on Linux)is still alive as far as I know...
http://www.pacifichui.org/projects/disp_proj.cfm?proj_id=76
I think folks can still hold their own open source VistA party.
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From: Wayne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: VA Software Could Help
...and thriving BTW the HardHats forum has never been as active as
it is now:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
The HUI has had something like 1,600 downloads, and I don't even know
how many we have had at the WorldVistA sourceforge site:
There is some concern here in Australia over a patent application lodged
by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia over some rather generic features of
EHRs. These concerns are reported here:
http://australianit.news.com.au/common/print/0,7208,11467621%5E15319%5E%5Enb%20v%5E15306,00.html
or here:
