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Summaries of open source, health care, or health IT news and information from various sources on the web selected by Open Health News (OHNews) staff. Links are provided to the original news or information source, e.g. news article, web site, journal,blog, video, etc.

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Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record Health Program Aims To Improve Continuity Of Care For Veterans

Staff Writer | Santa Rosa's Press Gazette | December 11, 2013

The Department of Veterans Affairs Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System and specific community-based medical facilities in Northwest Florida have partnered together to share a limited amount of electronic Veteran patient data securely through the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record health program. Read More »

Virtualization Key to a More Mobile VA

David Stegon | FedScoop | May 30, 2012

Virtualization is the best and most economical way to bring mobile solutions to the agency, Department of Veterans Affairs Client Security and Mobile Director DJ Kachman told FedScoop in a recent interview with FedScoop Radio.

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Virtumake – DIY 3D Scanners And Open Source Hardware

Staff Writer | Open Source Hardware Junkies | April 21, 2013

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how many words is a 3D model worth? 3D Scanning is taking 3d printing to another level – it is allowing people to visualize the natural world in new ways. Read More »

Virus Nails Hospital, Causes Massive Data Breach

Erin McCann | GovernnmentHealthIT | March 18, 2014

No hospital is too small, evidently, to serve as fodder for hackers. The latest hospital cyber-attack is reported by a small-town rural hospital in Colorado. The hospital discovered it had a computer virus that had collected and encrypted patient data in a hidden file system.

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Vision for a Principled Redesign of Health Information Technology

Steven E. Waldren, MD, Deborah J. Cohen, PhD, Jacob M. Reider, MD, Jewell P. Carr, MD and Ciarán A. DellaFera, MD | Annals of Family Medicine | May 15, 2017

The mission for Family Medicine for America’s Health (FMAHealth) is to help people live healthier. To support this, a goal of the FMAHealth Technology Tactic Team is to envision a future state that involves the principled redesign and implementation of health information technology (IT) that optimally supports the health and health care of the US populace. Compared to other nations, the US health care system offers higher cost, lower quality health care to its people...

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VistA Academy 2013 - Leading Linux Expert to Teach Classes for Open Source EHRs

Press Release | The Linux ETC Company | September 11, 2013

Crawford Rainwater, leading expert on the use of Linux as a platform for open source electronic health records (EHR) systems, will be teaching Linux Essentials and Beginning Linux Systems Administration courses during the upcoming VISTA Academy 2013 in Seattle, WA, October 18-21. The VISTA Academy is part of an extensive VISTA Expo & Symposium 2013 conference focused on the award-winning VistA EHR developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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VistA Could Still Become DoD EHR

Zach Rausnitz | FierceGovernmentIT | March 17, 2014

The Defense Department may select the Veterans Affairs Department's electronic health record system when it procures its EHR, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki said during a House hearing March 13.

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VistA Education Meeting - New VistA Class At SUNY Albany

Luis Ibanez | OSEHRA | February 25, 2014

New York State is currently performing the largest deployment of VistA in the United States (outside of the Department of Veterans Affairs).  This development is taking place at the Office of Mental Health (OMH), and it is bringing together State Government, Industry and Academia in an open and agile collaborative environment, creating the perfect conditions for promoting the growth of the VistA open source community. Read More »

VistA Expo 2012 - Training Opportunities for Project Managers

Fabian Lopez | vxVistA.org | July 30, 2012

In collaboration with the VISTA Expo & Symposium, project-management training company GR8PM will be offering courses in Seattle, September 8-10. These courses provide Project Management Institute (PMI)-certified project managers an opportunity to earn Professional Development Units (PDUs). Read More »

VistA Expo 2012 Announces VISTA Extensions Challenge

Press Release | VistAExpo | July 17, 2012

The VISTA Expo & Symposium is pleased to announce the first VISTA Extensions Challenge, running from July 10th through September 10th, with prizes to be award at the VISTA Expo. The VISTA Extensions Challenge 2012 is hosted at www.vxHub.org, where developers can submit their entries, and all members of the VISTA community can vote. All extension developers will have the opportunity to present a webinar on their extension, and each extension will have its own information page. Read More »

VistA Expo 2012 Sponsored by DSS, Inc.

Press Release | DSS, Inc. | August 20, 2012

DSS, Inc. announced that it is a co-sponsor of the 2012 VistA Expo & Symposium to be held September 11-14th, 2012 in Seattle, Washington. As a key member of the VistA EHR business community, DSS, Inc. is dedicated to the further development and adoption of VistA through support of the Expo. Read More »

VistA Expo 2012: Rob Tweed to Offer Rapid Web Application Development Training at the VistA Expo

Press Release | DSS, Inc., VistA Expo & Symposium, M/Gateway Developments, Ltd. | August 15, 2012

The VistA Expo and Symposium announced that Rob Tweed of M/Gateway Developments, Ltd. will teach a three-day intensive training course in rapid web application development with Enterprise Web Developer (EWD), just prior to the start of the Expo & Symposium in Seattle. The course will run September 8-10 and the Expo September 11-14 at the same venue. The course will provide in-depth training in the installation, configuration and use of EWD, which is fast becoming the de-facto toolset for web-enablement of VistA.
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VistA for the NHS

Ewan Davis | Woodcote Consulting | July 25, 2012

So in conclusion I have a different vision for VistA in the NHS than  the NHS Campaign for VistA. However, we both want to see an NHS version of VistA and we both want to see it widely implemented. So let not worry about where we hope and think this should lead. Looking at the NHS Campaign for VistA’s  8 point plan http://nhsvista.net/our-ambition/  The first six steps align broadly with what I want to see happen so lets get on an do it and see where it leads us which I suspect might be a different than any of us currently expect.
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VistA For The NHS

Ewan Davis | Woodcote Consulting | July 25, 2012

[...] It is widely acknowledged that over recent years the VA has transformed itself from one of the worst healthcare provider to probably the best in the USA with its use of VistA rightly credited as on of the key enablers of this transformation. Read More »

VistA Lead Designer Slams Hagel For iEHR Approach

Dan Bowman | FierceEMR | July 8, 2013

A lead software designer for VistA recently called out Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel for not taking a patient-centric approach to the creation of an integrated electronic health record between DoD and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read More »