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VA Plans New VistA Medical Scheduling System

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | December 23, 2011
The Veterans Affairs Department intends to replace its legacy medical scheduling application for its VistA electronic health record system and wants industry feedback about requirements for functionality, system interface and risk reduction. A modernized system could manage appointments, patient information and coordinate associate services across all VA facilities for a single view of veterans...

...VA’s existing scheduling application is more than 25 years old, “highly inefficient and no longer effectively supports the multiple linkages needed to engage patients, clinicians and ancillary services and support new models of clinical care delivery,” according to a Dec. 21 VA announcement in Federal Business Opportunities. Industry responses to the request for information are due by Jan. 31, 2012...

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by Peter Groen on January 5, 2012 - 10:11am #

'Open' Scheduling Solution

This would be an excellent opportunity for the VA to work with the open source community to acquire or develop an open source solutions under the auspices of the new Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) initiative. Collaborating with the growing open source community makes a lot of sense, rather than attempting to once again purchase a costly commercial solution that must then be tailored to work with the existing VA VistA health IT system. As the article in Government Health IT states, the VA attempted unsuccessfully to acquire a commercial replacement for their Scheduling system previously, but had to pull the plug on the project in 2009 after spending $127 million because the vendor had not delivered planned capabilities.