VistA and the US Veterans Administration: Facilitating the Radical Transformation of Health Systems Through Evidence-based Software Evolution
The eHealthOpenSource.org is going to run the third event in its educational webinar series on Tuesday, 29th March 2011, in collaboration with WorldVistA. The webinar session is planned to start at 2pm GMT and to finish at 3pm GMT. Please feel free to forward this invite to anyone who might be interested.
The collaborative, continuous improvement processes found in open source ecosystems mimic in many ways those found in the practice of evidence-based medicine. This is one of the fundamental characteristics of open source that make it very effective and powerful tool for facilitating radical transformation and improvement in healthcare. One could characterize the adoption of opensource software and development processes in healthcare as “evidence based software evolution.”
There is no better example of the transformative power of opensource than the role that VistA, the opensource EHR and HIS, has played in facilitating the transformation of the US Veterans Administration health system. The US VA transformed itself from one of the worst in North America to one of most highly praised systems in the world. This webinar will examine how the synergies between opensource software and processes and evidence-based medicine were exploited to radically improve health safety and outcomes, and at the same time significantly reduce or contain costs. Examples of improvements that VistA facilitated will be presented and key aspects of VistA's functionality will be demonstrated.
Joseph Dal Molin, President of E-cology Corp. and Director and co-founder of WorldVistA has over twelve years experience developing and applying opensource strategy in the healthcare sector. His extensive international experience, includes his role as advisor to Jordan's national, opensource, eHealth programme which is based on WorldVistA EHR.
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