Mike, If this helps...
VistA is the name of the open source software that's been running the US VA records system for a long time. There's been some buzz in the last 6 months around making it easier to install and get up and running. Medsphere [http://medsphere.com/] is a well funded VAR for VistA. I would imagine, given the legal and business requirements surrounding any medical or dental records system, it would be much cheaper to bring someone in to deploy this that to build something from scratch or license a commercial offering. And I know Medsphere is offering non-Windows systems. Article on the push to adopt VistA nationwide: http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/1122/news-va-11-22-04.asp HTH. ~ Jonathan p.s. I have never worked with VistA, and this is not an attempt to pimp myself. Alas. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael > D. Harris > Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 12:54 PM > To: PDXLUG, a Portland Linux user group > Subject: [PDXLUG] Software for group practice > > Hello everyone, > > I recently retire from the Public Health Service and now > work for a large group practice in the northwest. This group > is looking for software to act as an electronic medical > record. I have encouraged them to switch to open source > options. I am too new to using Linux to sell the idea to > them properly. I plan to be a part of this group (over 100 > dentists) for a long time and I dread them getting locked in > to a Windows dependent solution. > Does anyone have any ideas on how I could research either a > programmer who may want to take this project on, or a > software package or company who may want to provide a solution? > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > PDXLUG (a Portland Linux user group) mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug > IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug & #orlug > _______________________________________________ PDXLUG (a Portland Linux user group) mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug & #orlug
