Exciting Pro Open Source Legislation Introduced

Looks like somebody heard about the potential for this in healthcare. See the info on latest legislation introduced by Rockefeller D-WV.

BTW, a group of public clinics in West Virginia has implemented a variation of the VHA’s open source VistA system, called RPMS and there has been some positive feedback coming out of the project. This is a good example of what I call “VistA in the Wild” - the system being adopted outside it’s native environment at the VHA. This is significant since a barrier to this has been the fact that th VHA is different in ways from the public healthcare sector and the system has had to be adapted for use. This is something that bears close watching. Maybe people out there are “getting it”.

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Sharon:

Most interesting. A telling quote from the WSJ article referenced in your other post lists four startups using OpenVistA as their backend core in their EHR product. And one of the advantages quoted was that, “OpenVistA enables hospitals to run system checks for security problems and bugs.” Now who would have thunk that a hospital being able to run their own security checks instead of relying on a proprietary outside corporation to audit themselves was a good thing. :)

May 4th, 2009 at 1:14 am

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