Tim, > > > > Is is hours, days, weeks, monthsto get a running system of sorts. > > One or two hours only to install VistA, but yes, days or weeks to > configure it. I gather that some VistA experts are working on a demo > system, which packages a pre-configured mini-hospital. But bear in mind > that VistA could probably run most aspects of, say, RNSH, and hence the > fact that configuration of even a minimal system might takes days or > weeks is hardly surprising.
I was under the impression that we install the basic install of VistA and then add the various applications, which are neither open source nor free :( How easy is it to add these applications? Which of them are FOSS? For end users, this part at least should be easy! I may get a VistA expert (Or get Jim a ticket to fly over) to install the base VistA but if I have to get one for every application I get for VistA, i wouldn't want VistA at all. When I first tried OIO, it was quite difficult to set it up, but wonderfully easy to use. However, with some help across miles ;) I DID set it up on a server in the hospital and got it linked to 16 clients about a year or so ago, to form an embryological FOSS based fibre-optic linked network in my hospital. I have not have to setup the server since, which is amazing!! It runs on RedHat Linux 7.2 and OIO 0.9.9pre. Now an OIO is easy to setup - and everyone likes the LiveOIO CD - it is love at first sight! Oh! except for one thing. It has a whole host of psychiatry related forms for "demonstration" purposes ;) I have no programming knowledge whatsoever except for a pretty good knowledge of HTML - which is not programming -strictly speaking. My experience with OIO has been, that it is great for clinicians. Many of us, including myself being a specialist surgeon, work in more than one hospital. Thus the beauty of LiveOIO! Indeed purel;y as a clinician, I can happily get along with this, until hospitals are linked! The problem is that I cannot bring this data back and "feed it" to the main databse in the hospital. If OIO and VistA links in such a manner - we have a near perfect system. A dream......? Nandalal -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze
