>>The technology is straight forward except there is not yet a ready >>to use hospital electronic medical record system ... >> >> >I thought that the US Veteran's Administration had gone along way to this with >the original Vista >
I think that it is right to say that: 1) in UK, their developing EHR has recently admitted defeat and given up, so back to the drawing board. 2) in Oz, HealthConnect has gone the same way. 3) openVista ( http://www.pacifichui.org ) is based on the US Dept of Veteran's Affairs "Vista". OSCAR ( http://www.oscarmcmaster.org ) is a Canadian open source EHR. GnuMed ( http://www.gnumed.org ) is another open source EHR. These 3 open source EHRs could potentially be adapted to produce an EHR for Australian Hospitals, but a lot of coding/ software development would still be required. Government funding for the development of a hospital EHR, perhaps based on one of the above, would be the quickest and best way to achieve a hospital EHR, but this would still be a major undertaking which could take some years to develop and implement. Vista is along way from being ready and able to be rolled out. But I hope I'm wrong. John Mac _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
