Roger Baker [...] announced at a meeting of the WorldVistA community in Fairfax, Va., last week that the VA intends to launch an open-source development project to upgrade VistA, the VA's electronic health-record system.If you've been to Yosemite, you know the meaning of a "national treasure."

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Two longtime programmers at the VistA Community Meeting [...] offered a history of the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department's VistA electronic health-record system and a way forward for VA and military brass planning an estimated $28 billion retooling of VistA and a counterpart EHR within the Military Health System.

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Roger Baker, assistant secretary for information technology at the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department, said the VA is committed completely to pursuing an open-source model for modernization of its VistA electronic health-record system.  Read More »

Members of the VistA community gave Roger Baker a standing ovation Tuesday after the assistant secretary for information technology at the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department told them—at least in part—what they've been waiting nine years to hear.
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I just learned, (from a modern healthcare article, of course) that the contract has been awarded to Tiag. At first blush, this news was not concerning.

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Tiag, a Reston, Va.-based management and information technology consulting contractor [...] has been named by the Veterans Affairs Department to oversee a proposed open-source software development program for the VA's VistA electronic health-record system

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The Veterans Affairs Department has awarded The Informatics Applications Group Inc. of Reston, Va., a $5 million contract to be the custodial agent to manage VA’s open source community to modernize its VistA electronic health record. Read More »

Forty-five new and updated health applications that harness the power of open data from HHS and other sources are being presented Thursday at the 2nd Annual Health Data Initiative Forum in New York.

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This week the OCW Consortium is holding its annual meeting, celebrating 10 years of opencourseware.

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Medicare will be shaving annual increases in payments to hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies and other institutions by 1 percent a year for 10 years.

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