Beyond HIT Interoperability: Open Platforms are the Key
Open platforms in health IT are inevitable. Exactly when OPEN becomes health IT’s de facto reality is impossible to determine. But we can be certain that it will happen because healthcare businesses...
View ArticleBeauregard Memorial Hospital running Medsphere's OpenVistA EHR system...
Medsphere Systems Corporation June 12, 2012Original URLMedsphere Systems Corporation and Beauregard Memorial Hospital today announced that Beauregard has received federal reimbursement for the...
View ArticleBaker’s Three Tiers of IT Savings
Roger Baker, the chief information officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, manages one of the largest information technology budgets in the federal government, but he’s also one of the best at...
View ArticleAstronaut VistA Training Site Operational
Astronaut, LLC is proud to release its Astronaut VistA Training website http://training.astronautvista.com and Astronaut VistA cloud http://cloud.astronautvista.com.Read more in the full article.read more
View ArticleAn Introduction to VISTA Architecture
On Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. PDT I gave my first webinar, An Introduction to VISTA Architecture. It was in support of Fabián Lopez's webinar series for his VISTA Extensions Hub website, www.vxvista.org....
View ArticleA paperless NHS? Swapping best practice and ideas with the US Veteran Health...
2020health, 3Millionlives, March 13, 2013Original URLIf the NHS is serious about going digital it should continue to build on an existing partnership with the VHA and continue to revolutionise...
View ArticleA New Breed: Ceo Robert Wentz positions Oroville Hospital as major...
...under the Affordable Care Act everyone has to get on an electronic health records system (EHR) by 2015. If health-care systems such as hospitals and primary-care clinics are not able to demonstrate...
View Article5 Government Health Challenges To Watch
The Obama Administration brought a new public policy strategy to the federal government in 2009: challenges, with prize money for private organizations that design solutions (typically software or...
View Article2012 Open Source Think Tank Conference Exec Summary Released
The much awaited report on the 2012 Open Source Think Tank conference in Napa, CA has just been released. The Executive Summary of the report is available here. This report is of great significance as...
View Article1st Annual OSEHRA Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop to Discuss Innovations in...
OSEHRA October 11, 2012Original URLThe Open Source Electronic Health Records Agent (OSEHRA)...will host the 1st Annual Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop on Wednesday, Oct. 17th and Thursday, Oct....
View Article1st Annual OSEHRA Open Source EHR Summit
OSEHRA, the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent, will convene the 1st Annual OSEHRA Open Source EHR Summit, 17-18 October 2012, at the Gaylord National Convention Center, Washington, D.C. The...
View Article'Open Source' Personal Health Record (PHR) System
I have been a long time fan and supporter of the My HealtheVet PHR. It is a great tool, an innovative addition to VistA that was needed to better connect and serve our veterans/patients. What...
View ArticleWhat Is OSEHRA And VistA?
According to the oral history of the Department of Veterans Affairs, of which I have been an attentive listener over the years, once upon a time, innovation ruled the land. VistA, the legendary...
View ArticleHow Data And Communities Are Changing Health Care
The open source model is tremendously powerful, and it’s something VA understood when it created VistA. The next chapter will see the user-driven super community, OSEHRA, powered by data and the OSS...
View ArticleHaving Already Failed Once, DoD Snubs Open Source For Second EMR Try
In theory, the VA now has everything it needs to standardize and upgrade the open source VistA EMR, especially after forming the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) organization. But...
View ArticleA Pilot Site for NHS VistA in the UK
Moving the open source agenda require that NHS Trust submit Expressions of Interests (EoI) for open source projects under NHS England’s £260 million Technology Fund by the deadline on 31th July. Over...
View ArticleActuate’s BIRT Experts to Conduct Three Sessions on Open Source Technology at...
Actuate Corporation August 28, 2013Original URLActuate Corporation...today announced they will lead three presentations on open source technology at the Second Annual OSEHRA Open Source EHR Summit and...
View Article5 Problematic HIT Projects Costing The Government Billions
Cost overruns and missed deadlines for several federal agency health technology projects are costing the government "billions of dollars," according to a Government Accountability Office report...
View ArticleBeauregard Memorial Hospital running Medsphere's OpenVistA EHR system...
Medsphere Systems Corporation June 12, 2012Original URLMedsphere Systems Corporation and Beauregard Memorial Hospital today announced that Beauregard has received federal reimbursement for the...
View ArticleBaker’s Three Tiers of IT Savings
Roger Baker, the chief information officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, manages one of the largest information technology budgets in the federal government, but he’s also one of the best at...
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