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Open Source Community is Improving Veteran Health Care
Nearly all VA health care innovations involve patient health information and the Electronic Health Record (EHR) software that manages it. VA’s EHR, known as VistA, was designed by clinicians for clinicians and is a patient-centric system that embodies the clinical workflow processes that support VA’s models of care. In order to maintain a high rate of innovation in health care, VA must maintain a high rate of innovation with the VistA EHR. Read More »
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Open Source EHR Systems Deployed in South Dakota & Surrounding States
The acquisition, installation, and use of 'open source' electronic health record (EHR) systems have continued to spread across South Dakota and many other states across the U.S. See the map of healthcare facilities running some variant of the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system in South Dakota and surrounding states. Read More »
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Open Source EHR Systems Implemented Across Oklahoma and Beyond
Slowly but surely, the installation and use of 'open source' electronic health record (EHR) systems have spread across Oklahoma and many other states across the U.S. See the map of healthcare facilities running some variant of the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system in Oklahoma. Read More »
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Open Source EHR Systems in New Mexico & the Four Corner States
The installation and use of 'open source' electronic health record (EHR) systems have continued to spread across New Mexico and many other states across the U.S. See the map of healthcare facilities running some variant of the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system in New Mexico and the Four Corners. Read More »
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Open Source EHR Systems Spreading Across Hawaii and the Pacific Rim
Slowly but surely, the installation and use of 'open source' electronic health record (EHR) systems continue to spread across Hawaii and the Pacific Rim, e.g. VistA, RPMS, OpenMRS, OpenEMR. Read More »
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Open Source Hospital Information System to be Packaged for Debian
The Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA), an open source hospital information system used in 160 hospitals, several hundreds of clinics and more than a hundred nursing homes, will become part of the Debian free software distribution. This was announced at the Libre Software Meeting (LSM/RMLL) in Geneva, last week Wednesday. Read More »
Open source VistA System offers Major Benefits for Small Community & Critical Access Hospitals (CAH)
Almost one fifth of the U.S. population lives in a rural areas. Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) and other small, rural community hospitals provide vital services to over 60 million people living in these areas.Many of these small rural hospitals cannot afford to acquire and implement costly commercial EHR systems. There is an alternative - the high quality, low cost 'open source' VistA system supported by a growing number of health IT vendors. Read More »
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OSEHRA 2012 Summit A Great Success
The 1st Annual Open Source EHR Summit held this week at the Gaylord National Conference Center at National Harbor, just outside Washington D.C., was well attended by over 400 participants. The event was a huge success and many of the participants openly voiced the belief that this effect will be seen as the tipping point for open source in healthcare. It was "unbelievably cool" according to one of the participants, Todd Park, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the U.S. Government.
OSEHRA 2013 Presentations Now Available Online
The 2nd Annual Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) Summit & Workshop was held earlier this year in Bethesda, Maryland. All of the procedings from the Summit Conference & Workshop are now posted on the OSEHRA web site and available for viewing by OSEHRA members. Learn about the open source VistA system, open source business models, and a variety of open source tools the community has developed. Read More »
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OSEHRA 2013 Summit Shines, even as DoD Shuns the Summit
The Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) Summit was held this past week in Bethesda, Maryland. The focus was on the use of the VistA electronic health record (EHR) and other open source solutions in healthcare. Read More »
OSEHRA 2013: OSEHRA CEO Seong K. Mun on iEHR, Future of Open Source EHR
...Government Health IT Editor Tom Sullivan spoke with Seong K. Mun, CEO and president of Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent, otherwise known as OSEHRA, about the prospects for DoD actually picking VistA, his agency’s work on a standard code base that, in the long run, all the VA hospitals could adopt, and what to expect at this year’s conference, which runs from September 4-6, in Bethesda, Maryland.
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OSEHRA 2013: VA CIO Stephen Warren Lays out Open Source Strategy at the VA During Summit
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is launching a series of an initiative to fully embrace and leverage its open source strategy, according to Stephen Warren, the Acting Chief Information Officer (CIO). Warren, who gave the keynote presentation at the 2nd Annual OSEHRA Summit, in Behesda, Maryland, laid out in great detail the steps the VA is taking. These include fully embracing OSEHRA as the open source code repository, developing intake mechanisms so the VA can bring VistA enhancements from the private sector into the VA, following recommendations made by the iEHR team to standardize all core VistA modules, migrating all servers to Linux, and standardizing all development on open source tools. Read More »
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OSEHRA and the Future of VA VistA
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently launched its electronic health record (EHR) system as an open-source project, i.e. OSEHRA. "Anyone with expertise in health IT knows about VistA," according to Fred Trotter, "but few in the open-source community are aware of the project. This is tragic, because it really is one of the most important examples of an open-source system anywhere, for any reason. Why? Because Veterans Affairs (VA) has been able to use VistA to deliver a system of high-quality healthcare."
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OSEHRA Education & Training Program
The Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) Education Group has helped to establish the OSEHRA Multimedia Education Portal. Read More »
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OSEHRA Launches Code Repository & Certification Process
The Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA), a non-profit foundation recently created to continue the development of the VA's VistA software using an open source collaborative development model, announced today the launching of its Code Repository and Software Quality Certification Process. The establishment of this repository and certification process is a major step towards providing the tools that will enable users, developers, and researchers to engage with and advance electronic health record technology.
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