Re: [Hardhats-members] Another VistA-Office EHR article

[Greg Kreis]

Don't you just love the power of the media to mess up the story....  but hey, it is coverage. Wait, there's more. VistA was built on a database engine named MUMPS (now called just M). VistA is free, but M requires a license fee. VistA has also been rewritten as an open-source version called OpenVista, which runs on Linux and uses its own open-source version of MUMPS, so there's no license fee. Medicare's VistA-Office is also in the public domain, requires M and runs on Windows. That's what doctors can get their hands on starting this month. They'll have to pay license fees for M and a few other modules, but that's only about one-tenth of the cost of a commercial EHR license. Mike Ginsburg wrote: I second that emotion. Didn't we have a ComputerWorld editor as a keynote speaker at one of the MUG annual meetings? I think he lost his job soon after that. Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Richard G. DAVIS Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 5:40 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Another VistA-Office EHR article A distinctive, positive mention of MUMPS in ComputerWorld by one of their editorial staff! A day for which I have long waited. The main offices of ComputerWorld (CW) were a short 30 minute drive from my home in Boylston, MA. I repeatedly traveled there, sometimes accompanied by the MUMPS Users Group (MUG) public relaltions staff, to meet with them about the possibilities of having MUMPS coverage. Always the response was the same, their readership were not interested in MUMPS. To get CW to recognize MUMPS as an important technology was on my short list of priorities the entire time I worked with the MUG. The stubborn and closed minds there were a constant cause of frustration. Finally, now it seems that events have transpired change the CW editorial view. I look forward with interest to more frequent and prominent such items in CW. It is a happy day for me. Regards, Richard Davis. From: "Cameron Schlehuber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:01:52 -0600 To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Hardhats-members] Another VistA-Office EHR article http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,103570,00 .html links to an article in Computerworld called Reinventing EHR. Cameron Schlehuber ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members -- Greg Kreis http://www.PioneerDataSys.com "You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." (James Lane Allen)