Nancy Anthracite wrote: > I spoke with a physician yesterday who wants to try installing FOIA VistA > because he can't get his hands on VOE. He said that VOE is a hot topic of > discussion at his hospital and that 100% of the docs are convinced that VOE > is not being released because "Big Business" is applying political pressure > to CMS to stop it.
<<If>> there is a conspiracy, its backers are probably feeling right on track. My own analysis does not rely on "Big Business" hostility. > They think that all of the testing and waiting to meet > standards is just a smoke screen and that it will never be released. The coming standards <<do>> threaten the status quo on many fronts, not just VOE. So waiting for standards does real damage. It stops real growth... and loses us the opportunity to <<build>> the standards themselves. CMS threatens VistA simply by their ignorance and fear. The very idea of waiting until the development of VOE is "complete" before putting it into the hands of the health care community constitutes the greatest threat to VistA's survival. > I think we need to move along and provide these docs with a very attractive > alternative that can later have the VOE enhancements applied to it as as > patches. Hopefully the upcoming development meeting will be successful in > producing that alternative. The community we are continuing to build is the core product. If I <<did>> wish to destroy VistA, I would distract WorldVistA from its central mission of building the community of users / developers / implementors that will move VistA into the real world. VistA 4.0 is very important step forward for us all. But it is being built to serve the VistA community. That's why it is truth, beauty and goodness. :-) > I do not want this doctor or others to think they are loosing out on the > VistA-Office EHR enhancements if they start by using VistA now. Stone soup. > We need to keep in mind that the ultimate goal is that all of these flavors > of > VistA will become one VistA and that we are all pulling in the same > direction. It just seems hard to see that at times with VOE here and > OpenVistA there, etc., but we need to keep our eye on the prize and let those > we talk to about VistA know it as well. Nancy, I remain optimistic. Can you tell? :-) It is just that VOE is not the answer anything just because CMS says so. And VistA is not dead just because the AAFP thinks so. regards, JohnLeo The tempter approached and said to him. "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread." Mat 4:3 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
