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Growing numbers of community hospitals opting for 'open source' VistA EHR system
There’s no shortage of discrete EHR packages for providers to choose from as they look to digitize their records. But for some providers the solution may lie in programs that have essentially piggybacked on the technology used in one of the largest EHR systems in the world.
For example, Oklahoma-based Stiwell Memorial Hospital recently tapped Medsphere Systems Corporation’s OpenVista EHR system, which is an open source derivative of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affair’s massive VistA program. Read More »
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GTI Implements VistA System at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences
The prestigious government of India hospital, Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre (JPNATC), All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi is one of GTI Infotel’s clients that has contracted with them to implement and maintain the VistA electronic health record (EHR) system. GTI is also under contract by JPNATC to upgrade VistA and has added several other software modules and services for the hospital, such as a web-based interface, a CRM module, and an off-site Call Center. Read More »
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Guadalupe County Hospital in New Mexico goes live on Medsphere's OpenVista
Guadalupe County Hospital today announced [it] has gone live on Medsphere’s OpenVista® electronic health record (EHR). Medsphere’s open-source EHR solution makes it feasible for this 10-bed Santa Rosa, N.M., hospital—one of the smallest acute-care facilities in the country not designated critical access—to affordably improve patient care and attest for federal Meaningful Use funds. Read More »
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Guadalupe County Hospital Selects Phoenix Health System’s Total IT Solution and Medsphere’s OpenVista
Phoenix IT outsourcing combined with Medsphere’s open-source EHR solution will help 10-bed New Mexico hospital improve patient care and safety, control costs, qualify for federal stimulus funds Read More »
Guest Commentary: Tom Munnecke on VistA Lessons Learned
I fear that many of the lessons learned from the development of the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture aren't sufficiently counted in planning tomorrow's VistA.
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Hakeem Program
Hakeem is the first national e-Health initiative in Jordan. The program aims to facilitate and improve the healthcare services, by providing real time and up to date electronic medical information throughout the nation's public hospitals and clinics. Hakeem is being implemented based on the U.S. Read More »
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Homeland Security & VistA 'Open' EHR Opportunity
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to purchase a commercial electronic health record (EHR) system to support medical care and public health services for detainees of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The system will be deployed at 22 locations across the country. Read More »
- COSI 'Open' Health
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House bill pushes Telehealth expansion for veterans
A new bill [The 21st Century Care for Military & Veterans Act] sponsored by Reps. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) and Scott Peters (D-Calif.) hopes to encourage the use of telehealth for veterans by expanding current telehealth reimbursement policies. Read More »
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Indian Health Service (IHS) Plans to Modernize EHR
The Indian Health Service (IHS), the federal agency in charge of providing healthcare to more than two million Native Americans and Alaskan Natives, is currently in the process of upgrading its Resource and Patient Management System (RPMS) to increase interoperability and streamline EHR adoption by 2014, promote health information exchang Read More »
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Indian Hospital Adopts the Cloud to Increase Its Reach
Max Healthcare, a large hospital chain in India, said on Wednesday that it has moved its Health Information System (HIS) to a private cloud-computing system, making it easier to treat and follow up with patients from any of its locations across the country...The rollout, starting January, will be around the open source VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture) EHR system.
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Iraq Providers to Test Open-Source VistA EHR
A Defense Department media contractor is reporting that three Iraqi government healthcare organizations will test at a Baghdad military hospital an open-source version of the VistA electronic health-record system developed and used by the Veterans Affairs Department.
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Jordan Picks Perot Systems to Implement VistA
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has selected Perot Systems to manage the pilot deployment of VistA - an open source clinical and healthcare information management system - at two hospitals and a clinic in the capital, Amman. Read More »
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Keeping Track of Washington State & Many Others Embracing the VistA 'Open Source' EHR System
The installation and use of 'open source' electronic health record (EHR) systems have continued to spread across Washington and many other states. See the map of healthcare facilities running some variant of the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system in Washington and other neighboring states in the Northwest. [Also, learn more about the upcoming Open Health News (OHN) detailed report on VistA installations and users. across the U.S. and around the world. Consider sponsoring OHN and the upcoming report.] Read More »
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Lessons Learned from Implementations of 'Open' EHR Systems
The following are some of the key 'lessons learned' from various case studies about the acquisition and implementation of VistA and other 'open source' Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in hospitals and clinics across the U.S. and around the world. These lessons can be applied to almost any major EHR acquisition and implementation projects, whether it be in the public or private sector.
- COSI 'Open' Health
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Live Medsphere OpenVistA Webinars
Interactive EHR Presentations
Medsphere hosts regular one-hour interactive Webinars on a variety of topics related to our OpenVista electronic health record solution. These live, interactive presentations are designed to help administrative, clinical and IT professionals understand how our open-source EHR system helps healthcare providers: Read More »