VistA - the Open Source health care system

[Sarangan Thuraisingham]

Thanks for that. Yesterday, I blogged about bug#1 from
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarkShuttleworth. I was searching for more 
proofs to support my argument about why Linux is good :D to the 
community. Just then I got your email. So I blogged about it ->
http://www.thuraisingham.net/?q=node/3

Just goes to show, what the open source initiative is capable of. Also 
from Mark's page: " In addition to widespread adoption in developing 
countries, Ubuntu may well be running all over NASA's Moffett Field soon..."

Cheers,
  - Saru

Carsten Agger wrote:
> I'm sorry if all of you have already seen this before, but this is
> incredible and says a lot about the power of Free/Open Source
> development models IMHO:
> 
> The world's most advanced and possibly only complete health care and
> health record system is Open Source, free and Free, and developed by the
> US Veterans Administration (and is called VistA).
> 
> A derived project is called WorldVistA, trying to bring free and Free
> health care system to the entire world.
> 
> Here's a quote from this project's home page at SourceForge
> (http://worldvista.sourceforge.net):
> 
> "The OpenVistA project will help its adopters eliminate [license] fees
> by allowing VistA to run on the GT.M programming environment and the
> Linux operating system, both of which are open source and free. By
> reducing licensing costs, OpenVistA frees up money to be spent on
> medicine, medical professionals, and other resources more likely to
> directly improve patient care. Like all WorldVistA projects, the
> OpenVistA project not only provides adopters with the software itself
> but also transfers knowledge and expertise and builds long-term mutual
> support relationships between adopters and the rest of the worldwide
> VistA community."
> 
> Here's an interesting article on VistA and the VA from Washington Monthly:
> The Best Care Anywhere:
> http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0501.longman.html
> 
> And here's the VA's official CPRS/VistA demo site with more links and a
> working demo (Windows only, alas!):
> 
> VistA/CPRS demo: http://www1.va.gov/CPRSdemo/
> 
> I apologize if this is not interesting for this forum - my own comment
> is w00t! An open source health care system, saving lives every day,
> ready for everyone to adopt, and which scales from a single GP practise
> to the entire VA with 25 million patients.
> 
> If Mark Shuttleworth wasn't already busy supporting education, this
> would be an ideal project for anyone with his kind of possibilities to
> promote.
> 
> --
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> 

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Sarangan Thuraisingham
ECS, University of Southampton, UK

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