This has been my experience as well. I usually ask if the person that is so negative has ever seen VistA in action and invariably they haven't.
I figure if all goes well, there will be more work than the vendors early in the market place can handle when VOE is released. With 85,000 people trained to use VistA a year by the VA, once the legitimate problems for using VistA outside of the VA licked, there will be a well informed body of potential users who may choose to adopt it. I just wish there were more VistA trained volunteers to help do the work that needs doing so it will get done sooner than later. The problems that they were complaining about have been solved, but they have not been solved with open source free or low cost tools, which is what I think many of us are looking forward to/waiting to have available. I am very encouraged by the vendors who have decided to contribute their expertise and code to the cause and I hope more decide to do the same in the future. That helps a great deal. Hopefully the work of getting VOE CCHIT compliant will solve some if not all of the problems, and other potential solutions will develop into full blown solutions. On Tuesday 02 May 2006 12:56, Mike Schrom wrote: Anecdotal experience: I just returned from a practice management course sponsored by the American Academy of Otolaryngology given by a pretty well known consultant, George Conomikes. When the topic of EHR came up, his comment was "Don't do anything you don't have to." There followed a gripe session filled with complaints from each EHR adopting MD about what their EHR doesn't do. I proceeded to extol the virtues of VistA and was shouted down with old misinformation: "If it's so good why is it late"; "It's not free, CMS is going to license it to you for $4000/provider"; "It will cost $100,000 to implement"; "It can't interface with any practice management systems"; "It can't do:" "Billing", "Scheduling", "Lab interfacing", etc., etc. I tried to issue a rebuttal, however there seems to be a lot of resistance out there. On the other hand, a couple of people did ask me for more information, to which I responded with the Worldvista and Hardhats web sites (I gave one person a SemiViva disk. If I knew, I could have brought a few ViVita disks) In short, in addition to improving the system and it's useability, I think we and the VOE vendors have a significant marketing task ahead. Mike Schrom ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
