Iraq Providers to Test Open-Source VistA EHR

A Defense Department media contractor is reporting that three Iraqi government healthcare organizations will test at a Baghdad military hospital an open-source version of the VistA electronic health-record system developed and used by the Veterans Affairs Department.

A Defense Department media contractor is reporting that three Iraqi government healthcare organizations will test at a Baghdad military hospital an open-source version of the VistA electronic health-record system developed and used by the Veterans Affairs Department.

According to a story posted Monday on the website of the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System, a U.S. military media outlet, the Iraqi ministries of Defense and Health and the Kurdistan Ministry of Health signed an agreement earlier this month to implement the open-source WorldVistA software system at the Al Muthana Hospital in Baghdad. The 50-bed Iraqi military hospital opened in 2009. The EHR should be in place by October, the story said.