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Is his last statement valid? Will or can we get an early peak at the codebase for VistA-Office? Any resources for what is going in and what is being taken out? >The VA is modifying its VistA software for physician offices, and that >version is expected to become available in July, said Mike Ginsburg, project >manager for the VistA-Office EHR at the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care, >which is managing the conversion of VistA from an inpatient to outpatient >setting as part of a contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid >Services. ...... >VistA-Office EHR would be made available free over the Internet, but doctors >won't be able to run the application unless they license MUMPS, a database >programming language from third-party vendors, Ginsburg said. That cost will >vary depending on who is selling the license, the size of the implementation >and number of users. Ginsburg estimated the cost to small and medium-sized >practices would run in the four figures. >Open-source versions of MUMPS are available, and "theoretically" will work >with VistA, Ginsburg said. -- Mark Street, RHCE http://www.oswizards.com -- Key fingerprint = 3949 39E4 6317 7C3C 023E 2B1F 6FB3 06E7 D109 56C0 GPG key http://www.oswizards.com/pubkey.asc ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
