Right now, the VA is really at the forefront of information technology-based patient safety initiatives, yet there does not appear to be the tiniest inclination on the part of anyone at all in the US government to extrapolate these life-saving initiatives outside the VA.
In addition, correct me if I am wrong, but I believe VistA has been attacked again and again in Congress by representatives swayed by lobbying from VistA's opponents.
And incidentally, I know that Octo et al are Americans, I just wish that their initiatives had been adopted nation-wide by the US government.
On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 01:37 AM, Cecil O. Lynch, MD wrote:
Absolutely true. Not only was VistA developed from US Congressional
funding, it was inspired by USA VA doctors and administrators who are
paid by the US government, in a language developed by a team of USA
doctors at Mass General funded by the USA NIH and maintained by VA
programmers paid from the US Treasury.
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<<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.>>
If it were not for the US government (in the form of the Veterans Administration) paying for the years and years of development, VISTA would not exist today.� As a matter of fact, if it weren't for the VAs persistent spending on VISTA it would have died long ago.
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