There is an interesting paradox lurking within the VistA movement [dept. of idle thoughts].

VistA probably is the best hospital information system out there right now. It's modular design with numerous (hundreds?) of extant modules implies that it is extremely adaptable, what's more.

What then is VistA's major drawback? Why hasn't it spread like wildfire throughout the world?

Could it be because of its country of national origin? Could it be that the US is the least fertile ground for an open source project in medicine? Wiser men than I have appeared to have that thought.

Hence, isn't it the case that the correct strategy for VistA is to have it adopted by a first or near-first world country as its HIS of choice? France? China?

I think all it takes is one major country throwing its resources behind VistA and the rest is history. Certainly, the good old US of A is not the right country. Quite the contrary. If VistA had to depend on the US Gov for its survival, it would be long dead.

So, is it possible that WorldVistA should focus its efforts on one country in the first world and attempt to have VistA adopted there? I always believe in focussed effort. Has the Finnish government adopted it?

[end dept. of idle thoughts]
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 06:11 PM, K.S. Bhaskar wrote:

The next quarterly meeting of the VistA community will be hosted by
Hewlett-Packard at their Greenbelt, Maryland, facility February 27
through March 1, 2003. The meeting notice is on the (still evolving)
WorldVistA web site (http://worldvista.org/Greenbelt_Announce.htm).
This continues the sequence of meetings that has been going on for the
last few years. Please publicize it, and please do plan on attending
if you can.

Also at the WorldVistA web site is first cut of a template plan
outlining to deploy VistA in a country
(http://worldvista.org/20030116CountryImplementationPlan_KSB.pdf).
Please direct comments to both the Open Health as well as the Hardhats
lists, since not everyone is a member of both (this may require you to
become a member of both lists if you wish to comment). If you have
comments that you wish to make in private, please send them to me at my
personal e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Regards
-- Bhaskar
https://ecardfile.com/id/ksbhaskar


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