Dan:
 I concur. We have two new hires who worked in the VA system with VISTA and
loved it. I rarely hear this kind of support expressed for other systems.
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel L. Johnson, MD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Mayo Open Source List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: VistA is beloved by users


> I've never used VISTA, but our newest hire, an internist just out of
residency,
> said, "I've used EMR systems at 4 different hospitals, and VISTA is the
best.
> It does everything so well.  This country needs to pass a law requiring
that all
> hospitals use VISTA, and this would solve lots of problems."
>
> Dan Johnson md
>
> John Gage wrote:
> >
> > ...Users of VistA love it.  It is beloved.  Doctors and nurses with
> > absolutely no computer experience or expertise whatsoever rave about
> > it.  It is a complete success with users.  This success is
> > specifically measured against the productions of companies like SMS,
> > because users of VistA very frequently rotate between VA hospitals
> > and non-VA hospitals, so they have a chance to compare VistA with
> > other systems.
> >
> > If you told every doctor and nurse in the US that they would be using
> > VistA tomorrow, you would be the most popular person in American
> > medicine....
>

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