Michael; VistA Lite was an early name for VistA Office, and it is mostly what you describe, a simpler implementation of VistA.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael D. Weisner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 1:47 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Call follow up - VistA for Katrina survivor EHR needs > What we need is something that I would call "VistA Lite", a product that is > much simpler to learn and may be deployed quickly. Can we strip out the > medical essentials for emergency & disaster treatment? If we could put this > together, it would seem to be a perfect OpenSource project. We should > discuss the requirements of the Red Cross emergency teams, since they seem > to get there first, most often. > > Mike > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nancy Anthracite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 4:19 PM > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Call follow up - VistA for > Katrina survivor EHR needs > > > They need power and we would need to be able to set up a network for them. > Communications we could probably do without if a team were there to do the > setup, training, etc. Power could be just a way to keep the laptops charged > and the network working, but it is power or some sort, none the less. This > is a great idea that we need to work the bugs out of if we are going to be a > help and not a hindrance in this effort. > > On Friday 09 September 2005 02:25 pm, Chris Richardson wrote: > Bhaskar; > > To further this effort, I called Rick Marshall and discussed it briefly > with him. The concern was for the feelings of the CMMS folks (and rightly > so). There was also concern about the logistics of getting the system set > up and running. How would we train the folks to use the tool. The install > at present is not totally turn-key and there is significant setup for the > healthcare providers to get established in the system. > > I also spoke with Dr. Nancy Anthracite and she indicated that the learning > curve was too steep for these folks who are already pretty burned out. > Personnel would have to be sent in to train, setup, and trouble-shoot the > systems. She recommended that if there was a location which had power and > communications and expressed a desire to have the help, that this would be > the only way thatthis thing could work. I recommended that we consider > Magnolia, AR. I know someone down there who is involved in the recovery > effort. It is a community of about 10,000 with an evacuee population of > about 500. Perhaps we need to contact the Red Cross for other suggestions > for a location we could help with. There would be a need for individuals to > go to these locations to help install and trouble-shoot the situation and do > some training. We can also be on the look-out for VA-trained folks from the > New Orleans area. There are a lot of VA employees who are still unaccounted > for in the storm area. > > I see that there are some other EMR packages going into the areas down > there and it would be interesting to see how they fare. We could sit on the > side-line and be spectators or we could be participants. I would prefer we > got involved. > > From Mike Ginsburg's email of this date. > > "Looks like an EHR effort is already underway! > > From Computerworld: > > Allscripts, Medem Offer Free E-health Records To Katrina Evacuees > http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,104503,00.html?nlid=AM " > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "K.S. Bhaskar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 10:58 AM > Subject: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Call follow up - VistA for > Katrina survivor EHR needs > > > At the VistA Community call today, we discussed the potential benefits > > of a widely available pre-configured VistA system for the electronic > > medical records of a dispersed and likely mobile community of survivors > > putting their lives back on track. It was suggested that the beta > > version of VistA Office EHR could fit the bill, and my action item was > > to contact Joseph Dal Molin and Maury Pepper of WorldVistA as a conduit > > to CMS to seek approval for such a release of the beta software. > > > > I left voice mail for Joseph and spoke with Maury. Maury is not averse > > to approaching CMS for permission, but expressed some concerns about the > > plan. Maury's concern is that making available a number of laptops/PCs > > with a pre-configured VistA, whether it is a beta of VOE or another > > VistA (e.g., Hui OpenVistA) loaded on them would not necessarily be > > useful without the people trained to use the systems. It would be one > > thing for a group of ex-VA employees, for example, going around with > > these laptops, but without appropriate training, VistA may not be useful > > in general. > > > > I promised him that I would start a discussion thread, so that people on > > the call and in the community could respond to this concern. He > > (correctly, in my opinion) said that we were more likely to get a > > receptive ear from CMS if there was a coherent plan of action. > > > > Maury, if I have mischaracterized our discussion in any way, please > > speak up. Thank you very much. > > > > -- Bhaskar > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle > > Practices > > > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > > _______________________________________________ > > Hardhats-members mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > -- > Nancy Anthracite > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
