Report: VA should take open source path to VistA 2.0 05/08/2010. The Veterans Affairs Department should adopt an open source, open standards approach to developing the next generation of its VistA electronic medical record, according to an industry group tapped by the VA to recommend ways to modernize the clinically praised health IT system.
The VA Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, or VistA, is an integrated EMR system which that was written in vintage MUMPS code and tweaked and upgraded over the last 32 years. While highly regarded by clinicians, its decentralized architecture has made it costly and complex to maintain and upgrade. The report can be obtained online here. Government Health IT
Saturday, May 8, 2010
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