Re: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade

2005-05-10 Thread A. Forrey
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Greg Woodhouse wrote: Again, VistA is both its conceptual content and its implemented code base that reflects a whole architecture. It is given that the conceptual content will change as both basic science and clinical application change. The VistA Evolution Process must

RE: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade

2005-05-10 Thread Cameron Schlehuber
To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade Again, VistA is both its conceptual content and its implemented code base that reflects a whole architecture. It is given that the conceptual content will change as both basic science and clinical application change. The VistA Evolution Process must accomodate

RE: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade

2005-05-09 Thread A. Forrey
: Re: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade Here is a timely article from CIO magazine on the risk and consquences of neglecting a mission critical system while waiting for something better.. http://www.cio.com/archive/050105/comair.html Bound To Fail The crash

Re: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade

2005-05-09 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Part of the problem is our cultural predisposition to equate old with obsolete, inadequate, and useless. When were the standards established for screws? Yet, in this 21st century, I still count on going to the hardware store and being able to purchase a screw that fits by looking at a bin

Re: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade

2005-05-09 Thread Greg Woodhouse
Of course, that raises a more basic question. What *is* VistA? If you take the point of view that whatever sort of thing it is, it should remain viable for 100 years or more, then most likely, you don't anticipate much of what constitutes VistA being left (at least of the actual codebase). I think

Re: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade

2005-05-09 Thread A. Forrey
That is the importance of belonging to the voluntary consensus standards process I. E the ANSI accredited MDC. If the MDC is inclusive and open and it meets once year to say that the M standards address all issues that enable M to remain current and participate in the market then the gurus have

Re: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade

2005-05-06 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
VistA is a solid system, but it's old, too expensive to maintain and based on proprietary technology, McFarland said. HealtheVet, he said, will be built on commercially available systems and therefore be able to interact with other platforms in the VA's inventory. This quote cannot be

[Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade

2005-05-06 Thread Francis . Gilbert
Taken from the National VA News Summary. http://vaww.newslink.va.gov/summary/2005/05-05-05.pdf TBO=Tampa Bay Online) TBO News, 5/4/05 VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade By RICHARD LARDNER TAMPA - The largest hurdle facing a major computer upgrade at veterans hospitals nationwide is

RE: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade

2005-05-06 Thread Cameron Schlehuber
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph Dal Molin Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 1:50 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade VistA is a solid system, but it's old, too expensive to maintain and based on proprietary

Re: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade

2005-05-06 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
on proprietary technology? That's a howler. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph Dal Molin Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 1:50 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade

RE: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade

2005-05-06 Thread A. Forrey
. But based on proprietary technology? That's a howler. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph Dal Molin Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 1:50 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith

RE: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade

2005-05-06 Thread Gordon Moreshead
Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 11:40 AM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade Taken from the National VA News Summary. http://vaww.newslink.va.gov/summary/2005/05-05-05.pdf TBO=Tampa Bay Online) TBO

RE: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade

2005-05-06 Thread Cameron Schlehuber
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A. Forrey Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 3:43 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade Cameron: How do you think the New Management reacts to the use of the Zachman principles (otherwise known