Re: [openhealth] Senator Endorses VistA for EHR Standard

2006-01-26 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Greg Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One problem in people not learning from VistA is that it is so difficult to install and run! The other point is that the various modules have different licences. It is not fully open sourced in that sense (or am I wrong?). Some of the largest

Re: [openhealth] Senator Endorses VistA for EHR Standard

2006-01-26 Thread Nandalal Gunaratne
Phillipe, I would like to know your approach to things, more clearly. The list I made is more in fun than an initiative for OSHCA!! My interest infact is in the use of IT for the area of Research, audit and CME for clinicians. The BIG jobof making those for administrators, managers,

Re: [openhealth] Senator Endorses VistA for EHR Standard

2006-01-26 Thread Philippe AMELINE
Hi Nandalal, There was nothing personal in my message. I just wanted to point out that time is probably come for out of the box thinking. You are probably aware that current standards in the medical domain are all dedicated to report making. It means that nothing exists to give a proper vision

Re: [openhealth] Senator Endorses VistA for EHR Standard

2006-01-26 Thread Greg Woodhouse
--- Nandalal Gunaratne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [NG] One problem in people not learning from VistA is that it is so difficult to install and run! [GW] The trouble is that VistA was developed over a period of approximately 30 years during which it was

Re: [openhealth] Senator Endorses VistA for EHR Standard

2006-01-26 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 14:37 -0600, Greg Woodhouse wrote: [KSB] ...snip... runs on a commercial OS. With regard to platforms: VistA runs under InterSystems Cache' (a commercial M implementation) and GT.M (an open source M implementation). Historically, it has run under DSM, OpenM, [KSB]

Re: [openhealth] Senator Endorses VistA for EHR Standard

2006-01-26 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 16:02 -0600, Greg Woodhouse wrote: --- Bhaskar, KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the myths that is part of the FUD spread by vendors whose business models are not based on open source licenses is that software based on open source licenses is not commercial.

[openhealth] FOIA VistA SemiVivA 20060113 available

2006-01-26 Thread Bhaskar, KS
FOIAVistA SemiVivA 20060113 is now available and can be downloaded from Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista). A SemiVivA package is an installation of VistA that is bundled with GT.M and ready for use if you alreay have a PC running Linux. Assuming that the distribution file

Re: [openhealth] Senator Endorses VistA for EHR Standard

2006-01-26 Thread Thomas Beale
Joseph Dal Molin wrote: I feel a partnership between a couple of IT savyy clinicians and expert programmers with a wholesome way of looking at things, can create the infrastructure of the future HISs. Nandalal, you have in one sentence described how VistA was first developed and evolved