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Group recommends upgrading VA health system with open source
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| A blue-chip information technology industry
| recommended the Veterans Affairs Department
| reengineer its decade-old electronic health
| record system based on open source models
| and offered as the international standard
| for hospitals.
|
| The recommendations have implications for
| the Obama administration's push for a
| national network for health records, which
| faces a roadblock of incompatible systems
| nationwide. Open source theoretically could
| provide a solution.
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http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100506_2038.php?oref=topnews
Group Recommends VA Use Open Source Model To Modernize VistA
http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2010/5/6/group-recommends-va-use-open-source-model-to-modernize-vista.aspx
Is open source the cure for what ails VA's e-records?
http://fcw.com/articles/2010/05/06/industry-group-recommends-open-source-vista-for-va.aspx
San Diego Students Team With Carlsbad-Based Open-Source EHR Leader to Plan eHealth Records Implementation for Community Clinic
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/san-diego-students-team-with,1287015.shtml
Report: VA should take open source path to VistA 2.0
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| âWe think the standardization generated by
| VistA 2.0 will actually enhance the
| adoption of Connect and use of the NHIN,â
| Meagher said, who also envisioned VistA 2.0
| as a âguide star,â around which users could
| steer the development of the NHIN.
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http://www.govhealthit.com/newsitem.aspx?nid=73695
Recent:
HealthAlliance restarts open-source desktop project
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| Auckland health shared services unit
| HealthAlliance has resuscitated efforts to
| develop a standard desktop based on open-
| source software, but CIO Phil Brimacombe
| says it looks as though the District Health
| Boards will never be able to divorce their
| desktops entirely from Microsoft.
|
| First mooted in 2005, the open-source
| desktop idea, seen as potentially relevant
| for all DHBs, was âput into mothballsâ in
| 2009, owing to many higher-priority
| projects, Brimacombe says.
|
| [...]
|
| âThereâs no way we could be Microsoft-
| free,â says Brimacombe, âbut we expect a
| hybrid solution will still lower our total
| cost of ownership.â
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/technology/healthalliance-restarts-open-source-desktop-project
A Healthy Move for Open Source
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| What's interesting here is how different
| projects from around the world are being
| brought together to be applied to a new
| problem. This kind of re-purposing is one of
| the great advantages of free software, since
| it's not necessary to ask permission or to
| negotiate impossibly complex licensing
| agreements to do so, as would be the case with
| traditional software. Let's hope we see many
| more such applications.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2830
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