VA Studies VistA Refactoring

One of the first actions the Veterans Affairs Department has undertaken since launching in August a central body dubbed the "custodial agent" to oversee open source electronic health record projects is to commission a study on how the code for its EHR system could be refactored, VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker told reporters Nov. 23.

During a monthly call with press, Baker said refactoring of the system, called VistA, won't necessarily replace its MUMPS-written code with a more modern object-oriented language...