Chris Edwards

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29th VistA Community Meeting: Details of Upcoming Technical Conference

By Roger A. Maduro | May 20, 2014

The upcoming 29th VistA Community Meeting (VCM), to take place June 2-4 at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, is shaping up as a breakthrough gathering of technical experts on VistA and community members. The conference is bringing senior leaders from several US Federal Government agencies, including the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Indian Health Service (IHS) together with technical leaders of the VistA community to collaborate on improving the VistA and RPMS EHRs.

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Disrupting Healthcare IT - The Easy Way to Develop a Beautiful and Usable EHR User Interface

By Rob Tweed | March 7, 2014

Despite the best endeavors of the “mainstream” IT community, it’s an interesting fact that the top-end of the EHR marketplace is dominated by systems that use an otherwise little-known and poorly-understood database technology: Mumps. Not only does this represent something of a closed book to the outside development community – they universally balk at the idea of having to use this technology’s native language, but also the companies that have developed and own these EHRs keep their technology tightly under their own control. Read More »

EWD.js and VistA: Now With No Barriers to Entry

By Rob Tweed | March 3, 2014

Over the past few weeks I’ve been busy. Before explaining what I’ve been busy doing, I’ll start by stating my sincere thanks to Christopher Edwards (KRM Associates and Certification Manager at OSEHRA) for enhancing and extending his installer for VistA to include an option to automatically install, configure and fire up EWD.js. Read More »

VistA: From Start To Go In 5 Minutes

By Crawford Rainwater | March 5, 2014

[The] original two to three day process of trying to take home VistA EMR from yester year is now something that can be completed in the time it takes for you to walk to the nearby coffee shop for a refill and return to your office. Thanks to the extraordinary engineering work of Chris Edwards (a developer for KRM Associates and Certification Manager at OSEHRA), all of the "tough decisions" are made for you. Read More »

VistA: The Open Source EHR Hackable Platform

By Rob Tweed | March 4, 2014

[A]s a result of the work of Christopher Edwards, developing the OSEHRA Installer for VistA, which includes the suite of EWD.js products and a raft of demonstration applications, we now have exactly what Tony was suggesting: VistA, the Open Source EHR Hackable Platform. Read More »

New features in OSEHRA's VistA Installation Scripts and usage with Vagrant

Event Details

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Seminar/Webinar

Date:

May 21, 2014 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

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New features in OSEHRA's VistA Installation Scripts and usage with Vagrant

Chris Edwards will be joining host Fabian Lopez in the popular vxJourney Webinar series to discuss new features in OSEHRA's VistA Installation Scripts and usage with Vagrant. OSEHRA's Vagrant installer is a popular way to get a VistA instance running quickly for development or demo purposes. Many new features have been added to the scripts based on community feedback, and we will explore those new features during this webinar.

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