VA Contest Seeks VistA Appointment Scheduling Tools

The Veterans Affairs Department has launched a competition to modernize the software that helps veterans schedule medical appointments as VA moves its VistA electronic health record to open source applications.

The department wants to enable veterans to schedule their own appointments electronically via online and mobile devices.

VA intends to replace the current medical scheduling package with one that is standards-based, modular, extensible and scalable, and certified to work with the production version of VistA now held by the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA)...