--- John Leo Zimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> ---------- Original Message -----------
> 
> I think this one may be another, more pointed way of saying the same
> thing.
> 
> 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 
> 
> I speculate that the trouble with VOE in West Virginia may have been
> a failure
> to value the VistA healthcare community more than the "loaves of
> bread." We
> hope to avoid that error in Iowa.
> 

I'm not so sure. It's tempting to think that the delay is due to the
perception that VistA isn't really that important. But it's also
possible that it's simply not ready in the sense that the goals for the
initial release of VOE have not been met. I'm not involved with VOE,
and I'm not trying to justify the slippage here, but my understanding
is that this is not intended to be a development version, but something
that people might actually *use* in a clinical setting. I just got
finished with a project that involved developing a significant
interface in 9 months, and it was hard. Oh, we all came to the project
with a lot of VistA knowledge to start with. CMS, on the other hand, is
probably quite new to VistA, and it is a non-trivial task to ascertain
what needs to be done to meet a set of requirements, even if they
appear on the surface to be quite minimal.


===
Gregory Woodhouse  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



"Einstein was a giant. He had his head in the clouds and his feet on the 
ground."

-- Richard P. Feynman












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