Top "10 or more" Reasons the VA Should Protect the Public Domain Nature of
VistA
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| The VA's superb record in turning around its health system to become one of
| the best in the world in quality and cost management has not escaped
| attention.
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1194545422
Your Health Care Quality, Privacy, Security and Tax Dollars Are at Stake
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| How is it that this decision can effect the privacy and security of all
| electronic health records in the US? The VA has a de-facto standard with
| VistA in an industry that is notoriously difficult to standardize. This
| de-facto standard created at taxpayer expense is freely available to anyone
| who wishes to obtain and use it and many are doing exactly that. This system
| can be directly scrutinized by anyone who wishes to do so without needing
| permission. It is freedom in its purest form and an essential condition for
| electronic health record progress.
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1194534571
On the other hand, consider the NHS, which sold out to Microsoft and became one
of the biggest disasters in recent years (wasting $12 billion in tax money).
Then there's the BBC, National Archives, and the British Library, among other
public/government departments/bodies.
Related:
iSoft in critical condition as NHS trusts seek alternatives
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| The government's vision of an integrated computer system for the
| NHS is coming apart at the seams as NHS trusts are to start looking
| for alternative IT suppliers, The Guardian reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/05/nhs_upgrade_alt/
Microsoft in the NHS
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| Microsoft is one of the key technology firms in the £6.2 billion NHS
| IT programme. It is working particularly closely with iSOFT ...
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http://www.e-health-insider.com/comment_and_analysis/index.cfm?ID=69
Prescription for an I.T. Disaster?
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| In 2002, the British government embarked on a $12 billion effort to
| transform its health-care system with information technology. But
| the country's oversight agency now puts that figure at $24 billion,
| and two Members of Parliament say the project is "sleepwalking
| toward disaster."
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http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2058194,00.asp
NHS computer boss failed IT exams
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| Mary Granger is amazed that her son was put in charge of a £20bn
| project to transform the NHS's computer system. She is less
| surprised that his 'Connecting for Health' project is over-budget,
| behind schedule and threatening to become the biggest IT disaster
| in history.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35685
NHS Scotland pools budget for Microsoft savings
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| NHS National Services Scotland forecasts it will save up to £8m over
| three years from a new procurement deal with Microsoft
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/30/scottish_nhs_microsoft_procurement_deal/
Accenture escapes £1bn penalty for NHS walk-out
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| Accenture, the IT and consultancy firm has avoided huge penalty fees for
| withdrawing from the UK National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/29/accenture_nhs_penalty/
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| 'An NHS primary care trust has launched an investigation after a laptop
| containing names, addresses and dates of birth of 11,500 children was
| stolen from its offices'
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/security/data-control/news/index.cfm?newsid=2376
http://snipurl.com/1e08q
Accenture: NHS failure is 'track record for success'
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| After months of negotiations, Accenture handed contracts worth £2bn over
| to rival Computer Sciences Corporation after getting paid just £110m
| for spending a third of the allotted 10 years on the job. Its hand had
| been forced by losses of $450m it was set to make on the deal this
| year.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/09/28/accenture_failure_success/
CfH refutes computer failure claims
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| "Very often they are not major incidents as such, but could be caused when
| a patient administration system is running slow or there may be problems
| with the local network. The severity level is attributed by the user and
| this is subsequently very often down graded or amended."
|
| Many of the incidents that have been reported by CfH include failure of
| the systems used by surgeons to see X-ray pictures on a computer screen
| in wards and operating theatres. On some occasions the system is believed
| to have crashed during an operation, forcing surgeons to suspend the
| procedure while a hard copy of the X-ray is found.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/19/cfh_defends_itself/
NHS Direct all better
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| NHS Direct is back online this afternoon after going on the sick
| with a server error earlier today.
|
| According to Netcraft, the Windows 2000 server at the bargain
| basement hypochondriac magnet modern, accessible public healthcare
| resource was rebooted today. See here.
|
| Whatever malady did for the box, it was "unexpected", as the message
| on the site explained for most of today.
|
| NHS Direct was unavailable for comment at time of writing.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/10/nhsdirect_back/
Patient info ends up on eBay
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| The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust is trying to find out how one of its
| computers full of confidential medical information was sold on eBay.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/17/patient_data_ebay/
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