Thanks Bill...we will add you to the list of potential volunteers for whatever emerges in the next few weeks...:-)
I have a sneaking suspicion that folks may be confusing MyHealtheVet with HealtheVet the more ambitious long term VA migration strategy. VistA has all the architectural prerequisites to export an emergency health record, continuity of care record or whatever the latest label for this is today. The MyHealtheVet demo/implementation does this now...perhaps not the way the community might choose to do it but it works. What would be really helpful would be a tutorial or white paper comparative analysis of the various alternatives, their pros and cons and the various api's and interfaces that are available. If anyone knows whether this already exists please let us know. Making it easy to understand how to open up VistA for other uses etc. would be a very effective strategy for establishing it as health computing "platform" much like Linux is a platform for thousands of applications today...you cannot hide the value of something that keeps getting better all the time. Cheers, Joseph On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 08:34, Bill Walton wrote: > Nancy Anthracite wrote: > > > > It would seem this might be something we > > could use to create the equivalent of > > MyHealtheVet, the code for which is not > > yet available and from what I was told, > > will contain proprietary elements when and > > if it is released. My HealtheVet essentially > > allows veterans web access to their health > > records, and with the HHS's firm > > recommendation that patients be able to > > access their doctors' electronic medical records, > > I think EsiObjects could provide one > > solution. > > I've tried to imagine the use of the MyHealtheVet model in the example of > the little girl with lukemia that the President used in his April speech. > But every scenerio I've been able to envision that satisfies the requirement > that every new physician she sees has access to all her existing medical > records is more complicated, more expensive, less secure, and will take much > longer to put into actual use than one where her Dad just hands the new doc > a CD (or whatever). > > The ability to export / import patient records in electronic form is a > fundamental requirement for any EHR system's viability as a solution to the > problem the President has put before us. A project to give VistA that > capability would be one I'd want to participate in. Not as cool as the one > you're talking about, I know. But much more important. > > Best regards, > Bill > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 > Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on > who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. > Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
