Veterans Health Information Systems & Technology Architecture (VistA)
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My HealtheVet celebrates 10th anniversary
First it was my My HealtheVet (www.myhealth.va.gov), the personal health record [PHR] used by the Veterans Health Administration. Then it was BlueButton, which spawned BlueButton+. One way or another, the Veterans Administration continues to lead the way into the health record digital age, not only for veterans and Medicare beneficiaries, but for the private sector as well. Read More »
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My Updated 2013 List of 'Open Source' Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems
I've been following and reporting on 'open source' electronic health record (EHR) and/or electronic medical record (EMR) systems over the past decade. In the late 1990's and early years of the 21st century, there were several hundred open source EHR/EMR projects that were initiated and posted on sites like SourceForge, GitHub, GForge, Freshmeat, etc. Read More »
MyVeHU Virtual Campus: Enrollment Hits 31,000 and Growing
Was that a typo? No it's a fact. Earlier this month, MyVeHU Campus enrollment hit 31,000, and the numbers are still climbing. You might be asking yourself, "Why would so many people be interested in online, virtual training?" MyVeHU Campus is designed to provide the very best learning on VA’s award winning VistA electronic health record (EHR) system. Read More »
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NHS England Collaborating with U.S. on 'Open' Health IT Solutions
The NHS is spending nearly £300,000 on an exchange programme with the US Veteran’s Health Administration to investigate its use of open source software and telehealth. Read More »
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OHNews 2013 Readers Choice: 'Open Source' Health IT Systems
As we head towards the end of the year, the global 'open source' software movement continues to grow and strengthen, especially in the field of healthcare. Based on the number of hits by readers of Open Health News (OHNews) on links to our brief profiles of 'open source' Health IT systems, the following are their top choices of interest over the past year: Read More »
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Open Source & IT Procurement
Paul Matthews, Chief Executive of the Institute of IT Professionals (IITP) congratulated Commerce Minister Foss for listening to the IT industry and supporting the nearly unanimous passage of New Zealand's recent law banning software patents. Read More »
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Open source collaboration with VA betters VistA EHR security
The work of a graduate student at Georgia Tech has led to the creation of a patch to repair a security vulnerability in one of the most widely used EHR systems, according to an announcement by the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA). Read More »
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Open Source Community is Improving Veteran Health Care
Nearly all VA health care innovations involve patient health information and the Electronic Health Record (EHR) software that manages it. VA’s EHR, known as VistA, was designed by clinicians for clinicians and is a patient-centric system that embodies the clinical workflow processes that support VA’s models of care. In order to maintain a high rate of innovation in health care, VA must maintain a high rate of innovation with the VistA EHR. Read More »
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Open Source EHR Systems Deployed in South Dakota & Surrounding States
The acquisition, installation, and use of 'open source' electronic health record (EHR) systems have continued to spread across South Dakota and many other states across the U.S. See the map of healthcare facilities running some variant of the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system in South Dakota and surrounding states. Read More »
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Open source EHR systems empower America's community health centers
How the economics of open source make sense for large scale, national healthcare infrastructure projects. Read More »
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Open Source EHR Systems Implemented Across Oklahoma and Beyond
Slowly but surely, the installation and use of 'open source' electronic health record (EHR) systems have spread across Oklahoma and many other states across the U.S. See the map of healthcare facilities running some variant of the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system in Oklahoma. Read More »
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Open Source EHR Systems in New Mexico & the Four Corner States
The installation and use of 'open source' electronic health record (EHR) systems have continued to spread across New Mexico and many other states across the U.S. See the map of healthcare facilities running some variant of the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system in New Mexico and the Four Corners. Read More »
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Open source VistA System offers Major Benefits for Small Community & Critical Access Hospitals (CAH)
Almost one fifth of the U.S. population lives in a rural areas. Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) and other small, rural community hospitals provide vital services to over 60 million people living in these areas.Many of these small rural hospitals cannot afford to acquire and implement costly commercial EHR systems. There is an alternative - the high quality, low cost 'open source' VistA system supported by a growing number of health IT vendors. Read More »
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openMDWS: Transforming VistA Into An Open Source Service-Oriented Platform For Healthcare
...Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on this and wish to announce what I am calling openMDWS. openMDWS is designed to be a fully open source architecture that addresses all the issues I’ve described above. It is completely compatible with and interoperable with the VA’s MDWS initiative, but will allow MDWS services to be developed and used on both Caché and GT.M systems, without requiring any additional technologies... Read More »
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Oroville Hospital 'Open Sources' eRx VistA Module
Oroville Hospital, the first hospital to self-deploy VistA in the United States, is releasing the ePrescription module it developed to provide electronic prescribing capabilities to the world-renowned EHR in the private sector
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