Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
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Open-Source Community Helps With Emergency VistA Patch
While working on his final project for a master's degree in information security, Georgia Tech graduate student Doug Mackey discovered a security flaw in VistA, the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture electronic health records system. Read More »
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Opening Doors In Cars And Government
Ford and GM, first of all, both used CES to open up their in-vehicle infotainment systems to third-party developers through what's sometimes been referred to as "open source" app programs. "I did not see anything here that actually means 'open source' in my book," said blogger Kevin O'Brien. "Where is the source code for Ford SYNC? Didn't Microsoft write this?" Read More »
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openMDWS: Transforming VistA Into An Open Source Service-Oriented Platform For Healthcare
...Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on this and wish to announce what I am calling openMDWS. openMDWS is designed to be a fully open source architecture that addresses all the issues I’ve described above. It is completely compatible with and interoperable with the VA’s MDWS initiative, but will allow MDWS services to be developed and used on both Caché and GT.M systems, without requiring any additional technologies... Read More »
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OpenVista Goes Live in New TaraVista Behavioral Health Hospital
Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of affordable and interoperable healthcare IT platform solutions, today announced that the company’s OpenVista electronic health record (EHR) is live in TaraVista Behavioral Health Center, a new inpatient facility in Devens, Massachusetts. Originally conceived and launched by Health Partners New England (HPNE), TaraVista utilizes the creative forefront of architecture, design and medicine to exemplify the future of behavioral health care...
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Opinion: VA System Inadequate To Meet Veterans’ Health Care Needs
The promise of access to high-quality, affordable health care is one we can deliver on for our veterans if we continue to work together in communities to understand and address the health needs of veterans and their families and if we pursue all avenues to increase health insurance options for veterans who are currently without adequate health coverage.
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Option For Veterans: Acupuncture Can Treat Pain And PTSD
Area Vietnam veteran John Reid suffered from back pain caused by injuries he received while serving with the 82nd Airborne. Like other military veterans, the Bedford man, 62, who also suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, found relief from acupuncture, an ancient practice from China... Read More »
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Orlando VA Medical Center To Install LiveData PeriOp Manager In All 10 Operating Rooms At New State-Of-The-Art Facility
LiveData, Inc., today announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare facility in Orlando has purchased LiveData PeriOp Manager, the company’s healthcare operational intelligence solution for perioperative suites. [...] Read More »
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Oroville Hospital Named One of the Winners of the VA Medical Appointment Scheduling Contest
Oroville Hospital was named one of the three winners of the innovation challenge issued by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to help the agency develop a new medical appointment scheduling application for its award-winning Electronic Health Record (EHR), VistA. Oroville was declared a winner based on the open source, web-based scheduling program it is currently developing and testing at its medical facilities in Oroville, California. Read More »
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Oroville Hospital rolls out CPOE for their open source VistA Implementation
Oroville Hospital has gone live with CPOE on VistA, the open source EHR developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Read More »
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OSEHRA 2012 Issues Call for Papers for First Annual Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop [Updated]
The Open Source Electronic Health Records Agent (OSEHRA) has just issued a call for papers for the upcoming First Annual Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop that will be held October 17 and 18, 2012, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. [Update: Submission deadline has been extended to August 31st]
OSEHRA 2012: Halamka on the Open Source Electronic Health Records Agent Conference
In 2011, I joined the Board of OSEHRA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to innovation in electronic health record software. Founded in 2011, OSEHRA supports an open, collaborative community of users, developers, and researchers engaged in advancing electronic health record software and related health information technology. OSEHRA hosts software repositories for applications such as the VA’s and DoD’s EHR systems. For more information, visit the OSEHRA website .
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OSEHRA 2012: Innovation in Open Source EHRs and Health IT to be Focus at 1st Annual Open Source EHR Summit and Workshop
The Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating innovation in electronic health record software, kicked off its First Annual Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop. The event is the culmination of a year of growth for OSEHRA, which was launched as a result of an agreement between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense in 2011. OSEHRA's goal is to drive rapid innovation in electronic health records and health IT through an open source software process involving the community of software developers, clinicians, business leaders and other practitioners.
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OSEHRA 2012: Spotlight On 1st Annual Open Source EHR Summit and Workshop
We recently posted about Ken Mandl’s participation in a panel at the OSEHRA 1st Annual Open Source EHR Summit and Workshop. Audio and slides are now available to those with OSEHRA user accounts; scroll to Day One, 3pm, “Open Source Best Practice and Business Models.” Read More »
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OSEHRA 2013 Summit Shines, even as DoD Shuns the Summit
The Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) Summit was held this past week in Bethesda, Maryland. The focus was on the use of the VistA electronic health record (EHR) and other open source solutions in healthcare. Read More »
OSEHRA 2013: Oroville Hospital CEO To Reveal Key Factors Behind their Successful Open Source EHR Self-Implementation
Robert Wentz, President and CEO of Oroville Hospital, will be addressing the Plenary Session of the 2nd Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) conference in Bethesda, MD, on September 5th. Wentz will discuss the key factors behind the hospital's successful self-implementation of the open source VistA EHR for less than $13 million in total and less than $7 million for the EHR component. Read More »
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